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Message: [QUOTE="frankthetank, post: 2462365, member: 2517"] I wouldn't count on a P5 breakaway. As long as the P5 control 90%-plus of the college football revenue, they'll likely live with the NCAA for everything else (particularly since the P5 was able legislate different standards for "high resource" schools). It certainly irks some P5 administrators that they feel they should be getting the lion's share of basketball revenue, too, but they also know that there is a general public attachment to the NCAA Tournament as a place for perceived inclusiveness that doesn't exist for the College Football Playoff (where the general public seems to be perfectly fine with an all-P5 affair on that front). The P5 conferences have so much control over football revenue that the incentives for upsetting the overall system at this point are very low. That stability generally works well for the P5 right now. (Of course, if you're outside of the P5 like UConn, you want instability and movement as much as possible.) Now, a black swan event that could change things is if players can (or more to the point, legally *must*) be paid compensation beyond their scholarships and cost of attendance. That's the one sorta foreseeable event that could cause a cataclysmic shift to the entire NCAA framework, but even then, I'd predict that the P5 schools will su ck it up and pay (regardless of any posturing from people like Jim Delany that leagues would rather go down to Division III funding). [/QUOTE]