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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4991187, member: 833"] It is in the P4's and especially the P2's interest to keep the G5 conferences engaged. If the G5 leagues break away, the entire sport will get unstable because overall interest will start to drop off dramatically if competition at the highest levels is officially limited to 50 or so schools. Fan interest will decline, and risks collapsing if the overall decline in interest is enough to start impacting the fans of the major programs. We have evidence that the P4 conferences feel this way, because they have offered fairly generous splits of CFP revenue with the G5 schools. I also stand by my earlier prediction that there are a subset of top academic institutions that will not participate in the world the P4 are creating. I do not see Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Cal, Stanford and Rice sticking with something like this long-term. If those schools pull out, there is a chance that Duke and ND join, and then privates like Wake and Tulane, and maybe even some top academic state schools will be beating a path to join this league. [/QUOTE]