I get what you are saying but I meant more in the sense of English Soccer with programs moving up and down on a regular basis. I understand that mine might not be a popular opinion here, and that’s ok. I just feel that is better to be honest about the differences between a program like OSU and Ohio.
That’s a night and day comparison. The early rounds of the tourney are viewed heavily.
If the new normal features FAU and San Diego State level teams (but not the same teams year over year (essentially creating no new 'blue bloods) cycling through year over year the ratings will crater and the value of the rights deal will plummet at the next renewal. If anything that new normal would be a bigger impetus for the P4 split to be complete and include basketball.
You do realize without men's Basketball their are no NCAA Championships
people don't realize that running the other sports tournaments are pricey. It would then fall back on the member schools to fund them. Now what that means exactly, I honestly don't know.
Funding those championships through the NCAA isn't the only way that they could be held. The NCAA has grown to be a bloated organization. It is inefficient both in terms of administration and "enforcement". As we have seen most recently with the Kansas non-penalty, it's enforcement arm is, at best, selective. It is time for it to go.
Esspecially if those numbers were generated based upon sharing March madness revenue among participating schools just the way it is done for the college football playoff rather than being used to pay for the NCAA, and nonrevenue sports championships including D2 and D3. That would be more of an apples to apples comparison.
My data is anecdotal, this board and UConn fans that are adamant that the Big East, men’s basketball and the NCAA tournament is immune to the Death Star of college football.
I think it's going to take an incredible act of greed and arrogance for anyone (conferences/schools) to knowingly kill athletics at non-power institutions by simply redirecting all the money that March Madness creates. Seems like Congress would (have to) get involved and I don't think any university president would want to face that wrath under a microscope.
How many Congressmen are in states with Power conference teams?
A lot. And those same Congress members will have both power conference and non-power conference institutions in their realm. A sticky mess of a scenario for sure.
I doubt it.
Because it's a different scenario in the sense that no one cares when the rich get richer amongst themselves but when the rich shake down the sisters of the poor that's when people have an issue?
You doubt what?
Oh, I'm not saying they would necessarily have in-person hearings but I can see them applying pressure on their in-state institutions if needed. Take MA for example - how would it go down with all the non-power schools if BC would be part of the power schools pushing for what would jeopardize all the other MA schools' athletic programs? This could play out similarly in numerous other states (likely more severely in blue states than red)... I think the whole thing would be avoided anyway - primarily because most university presidents play nice with each other as they all belong to the same "club" and know their careers as chief executives are bettered if they don't piss off other institutions.
Guys…football money left Stanford and California athletics — two academic supernovas with massively influential alumni and outsized power— and these schools had to BEG to get into the ACC only after a former Secretary of State and a former president of the United States got involved.
