Demise of College Sports as we know them

Football
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Not sure what happened with the LHN, but I know you don’t make decisions worth billions of $ on just 1 data point.

Here’s what I think will happen. B1G and SEC are tied into media contracts till about 2030. The media companies will use that time to collect data on which teams (in addition to the blue bloods) would bring the most value to a 48-56 team super league. Then the media companies will make it happen.

Nothing will happen for the next 6 years. That’s the time that the non-blue bloods have to separate themselves from the pack and put themselves in a position where they will be considered worthy of being included!

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I’m a Houston Cougar fan.

When UH was delegated to CUSA I had no reson to follow the BCS Conferences because WE were not part of it.

Now…the later days in the AAC with the 4 team playoff and the NY6 Bowl restored my faith in the bigger CFP but right now I am very happy.

Has there EVER been a more exciting time to be a college football fans?

Realistically, withe the new playoff, a G5 representative CAN win the whole thing.

That was not possible in 95% of the history of college football.

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It’s not ONE data point.

Look at the TV ratings every week.

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No…grow your American Football fan base.

The NFL has WAY more interest than College football…not even close.

Why alienate the fans you already have?

The new playoff is a GREAT way to increase your fan base

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On a per fan basis you eventually reach the law of diminishing returns. You can certainly grow your fanbase by adding a schools with 30,000 diehard fans who’d only watch their own school or other games only if their school was included in the league, but the value that school brings in will not be enough to justify paying them the money as an equal partner.
Unless of course you think each school should be paid relative to the value it brings in.

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NFL only has 32 teams! Why aren’t they growing to 72 or 133 teams?

You’re actually making the point that by limiting supply the NFL is increasing the value for each of its teams.

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I watch UH and other Big XII games since that is our conference.

I watch SEC games if nothing else is on and usually, only if a school from Texas is playing.

Maybe every blue moon I watch two B1G schools playing, and again, there must be nobody else playing that I find interesting before that happens.

I am probably in the minority on that, but oh well. I’m not an everyday casual fan.

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Maybe not 72…but I have proposed them INTO market that can support the growth of their league.

I would add 8 new franchises, int he following markets:

London
Paris
Germany
Spain

Toronto
Mexico City
2 new US franchises- Austin/SA, Portland, Salt Lake City, etc.

the NFL and College Football are completely different animals.

UH/UT/TAMU/TT fans all root for the Texans and Cowboys but those alums would NEVER root for another state school.

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There will be a dominant P2 financially but the governing body that will succeed NCAA will not just be comprised of those schools. It will be foolish and unfeasible if they want to sustain viability of all sports. The 4 major conferences will break off from NCAA and that is ultimately what we want to make sure we survive.

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Add in Monterrey

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The networks would be wise to distribute the P2 worthy schools among the P4 conferences to balance out the ratings.

They’ve already gone down from 6 BCS/Power conferences to 4 so they’ve reduced the Big East and PAC.

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Cause u are a fan of and like college football

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Best 36 football team with combination of fan support, titles, bowl success, and pedigree (Cache, Pro player production, name recognition, school size) over last 4 decades. Academic rep nor basketball not factored in -

West (9) - USC, Oregon, Wash, UCLA, Utah, BYU, Colorado, Arizona, ASU

South (10) - Bama, UGA, TX, LSU, Florida, OU, Tenn, Auburn, A&M, Ark

North (9) - OSU, Mich, ND, PSU, Neb, Wis, Mich St, Iowa, Mizzou

East (8) - FSU, Miami, Clemson, WVU, Va Tech, UNC, NC St, UVa

The bottom of the eastern bloc is Houston’s best shot to overtake, in parallel the Tx Tech, OK St, K-State, TCU/Baylors of the world.

If it opens up to 48 teams, and certainly 64, UH is the legitimate running to grab a spot one would surmise

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I was not a fan of CFB in the post SWC BCS era…because i knew UH had zero shot of winning .

I only watched UH games and games within our conference.

The 4 team playoff drew me back in

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Why stop at 36. Just have four teams. Then you only need to split all that money four ways…

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The only way to even possibly make UH football (and possibly basketball) competitive moving forward is for all those RV lot alumni to put the cash they throw at those money pits into an NIL collective. Also UH must foster several more 100 millionaire-billionaire (actual) alumni that are willing to put down collectively 80 million plus a year to keep talent on the team, if it arrives here in the first place.

Oh yeah all of this has to happen in the next 2 years at most, but I’m an optimist. Lets get to it Coogs!

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SEC SANKEY COMMENT ON FUTURE of College Football (Opinion Piece)

I read this and wasn’t sure what is message that SEC commisioner Sankey was making. It seems related to this thread.

Any thoughts?

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UH is very low in the totem pole unless we change the TAM of Coogs. Right now the TAM is so low compared to almost every P4 team that we are more a burden then anything else.

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No need to do that. The networks are earning a lot of money consolidating the blue bloods. Besides I can’t imagine Texas,A&M, OU, USC being too keen on going back to their old conferences.

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Nothing in this article is not something I and many others have been saying for years. The only thing I would add is that you need to have a government regulatory presence for it to actually work and prevent backsliding; otherwise it will eventually get back to where it’s heading. If the SEC/BIG schools aren’t constantly looking over their shoulders for government regulators they will always be looking ahead to the next deal at the expense of their competitors. That is the nature of the free market.