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No...and after reading many many psosts from people on this board that do...I have to say I'm MUCH better off, if this is the type of "intelligence" a degree from MU gets you. It sure is on full display I will say that.
Interesting analysis by a contract attorney regarding Grant of Rights on the holyland site. Xudash is the poster who quoted him yesterday. I'm guessing that it is inappropriate to copy the holyland comments here. Apparently the rights are not as cut and dried as we legal laymen believe. Thoughts?
My guess is that the grant of media rights are firm or Texas and Oklahoma would be gone by now.
Does anyone not believe that the Big 10, SEC and ACC wants the Big 12, Big East AAC, etc. to go away? The writing is on the wall in big bold letters.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
They want them diminished but not away. They do want the bottom 150-250 teams to go away.Cutting off schools with large fanbases shrinks their viewership and their bottom line. If college football/basketball devolves into just another semi-pro league, it will lose it's value. The Big 4 want to set up a system where they control a majority of the pie but the Big 12s, Big Easts, and AACs of the world are still a part of it.
I think you are right but I don't believe they think like you and I. MU, OK St., Kansas, Villanova,, etc. are not big time programs. Big college football programs bring in $30MM plus. Basketball programs bring in $4MM or much less. I hope I am wrong but I can't see a future where the SEC and Big East coexist. That said, I think the rest of the NCAA schools can compete in there own bubble.
I don't think they think like us either. But they do understand money better than either of us. I think they recognize that a 4 conference league will not be as financially viable as one that includes additional conferences.
I agree but a four conference league is where we are headed with football. Some think it will end up with one conference of 32. I don't know if Purdue, Syracuse, Arizona or the like will make the cut. At minimum small schools like Wake Forest, Duke, TCU and Northwestern are on the chopping block. They don't bring value to football.
The Big 14 will never allow Northwestern to not be included
I agree that having more schools with a chance to compete is better for college sports but the big conferences and ESPN don't want it.
You keep saying this, but is this really the case? ESPN has contracts with the AAC, MAC, and Sun Belt. The one with the AAC was signed less than two years ago and runs through 2032 and is worth $1 billion over that time. The Sun Belt contract was just finalized this summer and runs through 2031. They also own the rights to pretty much all of the bowl games, which are filled with smaller programsThat's a strange way of not wanting them around.And the big schools don't much care as long as it doesn't impact their revenue.
Good points but my point was that the big schools and ESPN don't want small programs to have a chance to compete. I didn't claim that ESPN wants the small conferences to fold, they just don't want them in play for a championship. I think we can all agree the AAC's contract is very small compared to the P5.
That said, I think the rest of the NCAA schools can compete in there own bubble.
"Don't want them in play for a championship" is very different from what you've been saying. And they've already accomplished that. No team outside the P5 (soon to be P4) has ever made the CFP. They don't need to jettison them to prevent them from competing for a championship.And I don't think the same is true for basketball.