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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4905360, member: 71"] The thing about those who are greedy is they don't like sharing at all and only share with those they believe they have to share with. If anyone believes they (those running the P-2) aren't greedy on a Dennis Kozlowski level hasn't been paying attention. I'm old enough to remember when DePaul was as big a name in basketball as anyone. I'm old enough to remember when LaSalle and Duquense were bigger names than any current Big East member than Marquette and perhaps Villanova. Brands can lowly die off. I imagine the grand plan is to eventully (10-15 years from now) relegate a conference like the Big East to a two or three bid league, while 24 member P-2 conferences (B1G and SEC) each get sixteen bids and 12-14 member ACC and B-12 each get four to five bids. Everyone else will be a one bid (occaisionally two bids for a better low major), the bottom third having to meet in play-in games. They will choke schools out slowly, using finances to do so. They already have far better TV money and in many cases better attendance and booster revenues than even the better G group of schools. In time they'll control 70%-75% of NCAA tournament revenues, the one revenue source that they don't currently dominate. They'll pretend they're being magnanamous by [I]allowing[/I] participation of other schools, if they qualify, in the tournament but will stack the deck to a level where the participation numbers I addressed above will be reached. They didn't go through all of this trouble, increasing their conferences size, to end up with a lower percentage of member schools earning tournament credits each year. Look at this as mamifest destiny. After Little Big Horn it may have been easy to say that the government wouldn't take all native American territory. It took a bit more than a quarter century after that before Oklahoma and Arizona (at the time reserved as Indian territory) became states. [/QUOTE]

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