They won't. They receive far too much cover under the NCAA umbrella that would be lost if they broke away. They have already basically isolated football revenues (FBS level) away from the NCAA. They are well on their way towards further stratification of the top two conferences vs everyone else in FBS. What would breaking away provide them that they won't already have?
I'm not convinced of that.
Of course they will. Once they freeze uconn out why would players come to connecticut?
The need for scholarships has been obviated by NIL. You're talking about something that no longer matters
I think you missed the part where I wrote half the NIL Portal recruiting base would be gone if everything were reduced to the P2.
So what was the whole 110 scholarship thing about?
Nobody wants to loose to UConn in football.
If you've reduced the number of viable teams, you're still going to have to bring players in through the portal. Those players are not going to be coming anymore from the league's outside the new structure. Or very few of them will. They just won't have the support and training they used to have. One way to address that is to offer more scholarships, like they used to before the 85 player rule.
It's not even just self validating. The narrative gets pushed from the networks too. And of course it would. Those are their properties. They want to consolidate and if they consolidate then the networks will push it as the "real" league. They did it with P5 and they'll do it with P2. Just wait for them to crown the winner of the B1G vs SEC playoffs as the national champion. That's all it will take.
It's monopoly type stuff. There will forever be a glaring example of the way you crookedly rigged things. It will be brought up over and over. You killed the best team by collusion, this makes your antitrust case weak.
There's a big difference here. The P5 still had openings for other conferences, still a part of the same ecosystem even if the money wasn't the same.
There are times the last couple years when I have felt stupid for caring as much as I do. But then the off season comes, a new schedule comes into focus, some changes to the staff and the roster are made and then hope springs again… like clockwork.
They're going to create a basketball tournament and leave all the best basketball programs out of it. Okay, buddy.
I thought so. No, that's incredibly tone deaf. Scholarships don't matter anymore and adding them doesn't actually do much. Its not going to stop a player on the lower end from going to Towson.
Yes, yes they will. In three years after that UConn will not matter. Why would players come if they can't play against the "best" on a regular basis.
I don't know why this is so difficult for you.
You don't get it at all, when all players are getting a 300K nil then what is a scholarship?
Between 20 and 70K.
And not all get even that.
It's a lot less.
