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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 2578839, member: 153"] Too much money in hat tourney for them not to get their hands on it. They need to starve the G5 more as Saban intends. The new transfer rules will help them do that. Once they've gutted the football side, they'll start in on the bball side. We're talking a huge amount of money. $1.1b deal, and that's before licensing rights and ticket sales. Last year the B1G earned 15 units/credits, which is 15 x $272k. That's $4m for the conference. Do you really think they are going to leave $1.1b on the table when they only earned $4m from the tourney last year? $17m per school versus $285k per school. A lot of case. Yes, costs for championships and referees would skyrocket. But the NCAA takes a yearly cut of hundreds of millions for its offices. [/QUOTE]