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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5008283, member: 488"] My guess is that the Big Ten and SEC will agree to share a small percentage of their revenue with the other "power" leagues as a (obviously insincere) showing of good faith. An even smaller percentage of that will then likely trickle down to the G5 leagues, who will remain compensating their players the old-fashioned way. Everything points towards an attempt to recreate the NFL. One league will become the de facto AFC, and the other the NFC. Even the network agreements - with ESPN locking in the SEC and FOX cornering the Big Ten - are mimicking those trendlines. It will be considered the new highest level of college football, with whatever concoction of ACC/Big 12 schools being considered tier two, and everyone else slotting in beneath that. All the P2 schools will spend roughly the same in the name of achieving parity. Players will be allowed to transfer up or down a level without sitting a year, but not within levels. They might invite a couple schools from the lower leagues to the playoff to preserve the pretense of tradition, but we all know how that will go. The big winners will be schools like Rutgers, who suddenly find themselves on semi-equal footing with schools like Alabama and Ohio State. As for UConn, not much will change. We'll still be here debating whether to continue subsidizing the program in hopes of one day getting the call to the big leagues, or just close shop altogether. Syracuse will probably be in the same boat. [/QUOTE]

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