What is going to happen to the smaller private institutions in the upcoming realignment landscape?

[Slasher]

In the context of COVID, it isn't out of the ordinary. Even UConn declined in enrollment numbers.

UConn dropped by a miniscule percentage and then bounced back up. Xavier has dropped 16% in 5 years. Huge difference.

 

[CL82]

Anybody know what Title IX means relative to the potential employee status?

Lol, no, I don't think anyone does. Great question.

 

[Billy Jack]

Maybe Vandy/Northwestern get pushed out?

That can’t happen. The by-laws don’t allow for it except for some very rare curcumstances and egregious behaviour by the university.

 

[Billy Jack]

I have often wondered about how the Catholic schools got away without paying an exit fee plus the fee to retain the old name.

There was an agreement a couple of years before realignment occurred, between the football schools and the basketball-only schools for an amicable split without anyone paying exit fees. It allowed fir the basketball-only schools to leave en masse. It was treated more as a split of the conference than as individual departures from the conference. It has often been referred to as a pre-nup. This analogy, comparing it to a divorce, is probably a better representation of what happened than saying that the C7 left the Big East. As in a divorce, the 2 sides then divided up the assets. The C7 got the name and the MSG tournament.

 

[NE Football]

All 3 conferences, Big 12, ACC & PAC 12 are all scrambling to no avail to catch up to the B1G and the SEC. The best solution is for all 3 conferences to merge into one 36 team conference. They would control a huge amount of inventory that the networks would desperately need to fill program slots. It would be a national conference that would command a huge TV deal perhaps in the range of 3 billion annually. No doubt collectively they will get more per team versus going it as 3 separate conferences.

 

[CL82]

All 3 conferences, Big 12, ACC & PAC 12 are all scrambling to no avail to catch up to the B1G and the SEC. The best solution is for all 3 conferences to merge into one 36 team conference. They would control a huge amount of inventory that the networks would desperately need to fill program slots. It would be a national conference that would command a huge TV deal perhaps in the range of 3 billion annually. No doubt collectively they will get more per team versus going it as 3 separate conferences.

Or one Conference can reach an optimized number freezing out other schools, and cutting the pie slices larger for their schools.