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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 3279790, member: 37"] Always had boosters and gamblers corrupting the system. There were always rogue coaches. But as the money got bigger the amount of rule breaking increased with more participating. Now it's systemic and organized. The networks had demonstrated how much money could be made in college sports and the universities wanted a piece of the action. So they set up their own sports platforms. They no longer have incentive to self regulate. The networks, watching their profits erode, made a decision to limit the erosion. Hence the big discrepancy between the power 5 and the rest. Yes I know football dictates the money. But the universities who currently control the market are smart to ensure that the market stays confined. It's a perfect symbiotic relationship between the p5 universities and networks. Not complicit enough to warrant anti trust action but successful enough to keep the hungry satisfied so content is provided with the lions share of monies going to a smaller number of entities. The shoe companies recognized this logic and wanted to steer players to a smaller number of their affiliated institutions so as contracts came up they could offer large monies to smaller and smaller numbers of institutions. They got caught and now the dirt is flying. The NCAA has long been obsolete. They have been treading water for some time. They prolonged their vulnerability and sham oversight with the APR. They did what they could to stop the erosion but it was never going to happen. Too much money inertia. Whether they want to or not they feel they have to cater to the money. The have nots have a couple of cards to play. The first is Content. If they all united (probably won't happen because the weak rarely have the ability to stay together) all the universities outside of the P5 could end the NCAA oversight and band together as one entity with the idea of selling themselves to the highest bidder. To fight the football revenue "monopoly" this new group can then set up a system where they select 16 universities as "football programs" with no holds barred regarding academics or monies given to recruits. Like it or not that's the system that currently exists if not with every university certainly enough universities as to eliminate fairness. Time to stop pretending. The institutions in this new entity not selected get a more equitable revenue sharing than currently exists. In addition there could be another number of universities at the B level who move up to the A level depending on performance and attendance with those not performing at the A level moving down. This would prevent the system from stagnating and offer other universities the opportunity to advance, something that is not available to them today. Now the P5 would be the cumbersome model with 100 or so teams fighting for football recruits as compared to 16 teams fighting for those same recruits. The 16 universities would have to be "subsidized" with monies from a new hungry media platform that has the vision to compete with contracts given to the P5. Certainly risky so I'm not holding my breath. But with high rollers like Bezos aggressively seeking content for his platform anything is possible. The second is no longer pretending the system can be fixed. Even if people are too fearful on taking a chance with the above model removing oversight could severely damage the P5 and hence the networks that have propped up those universities. Boosters no longer restrained level the playing field when it comes to money dispersion. If several Pedunk University boosters start buying the better football players coming out of high school the P5 product starts to become poorer and the attending media contracts become less sustainable. [/QUOTE]

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