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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4716100, member: 71"] Why would there be a disruption? Not to sound callous but sadly I don't see things changing all that much as the way things currently stand is the best situation for those in power. The NCAA needs to be funded somehow. The one area where the big two have the least amount of revenue concentration is men's basketball. I'm more than confident that the SEC and B1G are happy saying "take a chunk of the money that we only get 25%-30% of the proceeds to fund your operations" when the alternative would be it coming from a source where they see 80%-85% of the proceeds. In ten years do you think anyone other than the SEC and B1G will have any real voice? This is why I don't believe they will split from the NCAA, they'll just be in full control of it. The tournament will still exist, they'll just supply 50% of the schools that participate every year and ~70%-75% of the single digit seeds. The second tier will be two bid conferences, in a stray year a third can sneak in from one of them, while the rest of D1 will be one bid conferences. Large conferences have had 2/3 (or more) of their members make the tournament. There is no reason the same won't happen when the B1G and SEC are at 24 schools each. It will reach the point where it becomes the norm, not the exception. This is among the reasons why they won't leave the NCAA. They won't need to. [/QUOTE]