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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4348588, member: 833"] Back to my original post, NIL means that it will be harder to stockpile talent. Why sit the bench at Ohio State when you can start, and get paid real NIL money, at Pitt? I am not sure how a power play by the Big 10 and SEC would work. Would they refuse to play other leagues and announce that the winner of their leagues is national champion? Would that work? That is a lot of Big 10 and SEC teams picking up a lot of losses, and would fans look at the SEC/Big 10 "Championship Game" as a true champion? If that doesn't work, all the two raids have done is pull power programs out of the Big 12 and Pac 12, and give other schools the opportunity to take up the mantle. For example, Oregon, with Nike plus Portland's corporate and booster market behind them to fund NIL, and USC is out of the way, should become a perennial superpower in college football. I think the Big 12 has already made the right moves. Houston, Cincinnati and BYU in a major conference will be forces to reckon with in hoops and football. All are in or near major cities, and should be able to generate meaningful NIL revenue for their athletes, enabling them to compete effectively for talent. Throw in the fact that none of those 3 schools has an Alabama or Georgia or Ohio State sitting in front of them in the conference, they may not see some of the headwinds that the recently departed schools will see. If I was the Pac 12, I would add SDSU and Boise State. It needs a presence in Southern California, and Idaho/Montana is one of the fastest growing parts of the country. [/QUOTE]

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