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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4738160, member: 833"] A few things: 1) You think there is a bottomless pit of money at the football schools? Do you think we on the boneyard are the only ones that realize that every conference is on its last big linear contract? Have you read any interviews of P4 athletic directors? Also, do you think we are the only ones that have considered that ESPN may have a hard time meeting their contractual obligations on the back end of some of these huge linear deals. Every school is looking at the back end of those deals and looking for ways to mitigate risk, which will include managing their overhead. 2) The Demographic Cliff is here, and while WVU is the first major casualty, it will not be the last of the big time athletic schools that are mediocre or worse academically that wake up one morning and find out no one wants to go there. Alabama is known for being very generous with scholarship money to out-of-state applicants. How long can they keep that game going without pulling money in from somewhere, including the athletic department? Every million dollars they pay a coach is 20 scholarships they can't offer to boost their average GPA and test scores. 3) There will be a lot of money in streaming, but it won't be as focused on football. Basketball generates a lot of content that fans care about, and in streaming, the focus is not on coming up with the big matchup for the 3:30 Saturday time slot like it was in the cable bundle era. It is about generating a lot of content that will hopefully get a fragmented target customer base to sign up. 4) It amazes me how people who are not idiots continue to believe the self-serving ESPN PR about how all the talent and all the money and all the power in college athletics will consolidate in a handful of programs, that (not) surprisingly happen to be under contract with ESPN or Fox. NIL and the Transfer Portal are having the exactly opposite impact, and are in fact spreading the talent around. The players are smart enough to realize they won't get paid much if they don't play. That last one cuts both ways, since Fox does promote UConn hoops pretty well. [/QUOTE]

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