The problem is that SEC/B1G schools also have a lot of political power. Just think of what happened when it became known that OUT were headed to the SEC. In Texas TCU, Tech, and Baylor alums, boosters, and alums in the legislature tried their best to block UT from moving, Texas supporters in the legislature made sure they didnt succeed.
Same with OU, OSU tried its best to get their legislature to block OUs move but couldn’t. The situation was repeated in Washington and Oregon. Only in California did the legislature intervene, and then too only to force UCLA to share its B1G wealth with Cal. I wonder what would have happened if Cal was not part of the UC system?
Seems to me it’s like I mentioned, they won’t breakaway but simply want more playoff spots to appease their members along with more tv money next round. He mentioned lawsuits and public scorn if they broke away.
So the big12,ACC and G5 will all be a part of it but will simply make less money and get less playoff spots.
It’s a pecking order like a lot of scenarios in business or sports.
UTAH sued and got into the pac12. I recall Tulane doing some political stuff that helped.
A breakaway would cause lawsuits so political clout doesn’t have to be great. A bunch of schools suing is enough of a deterrent to a clean break.
Again the p2 just wants more $ and playoff spots and not a clean break bc lawsuits vs clout of left behind schools being the bigger threat. The left behind would have clout banded together in lawsuits.Sandusky mentioned lawsuits and fallout indicating lawsuits are the big threat then clout / fallout.
I wish I was as optimistic but I am not. They will breakaway first chance they get.
Why? Partly because they want the money for themselves; why should OSU, MI, Bama, Texas or UGA or even Penn State and LSU want to share the money with Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Mizzou, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, etc.?
Also, the Networks would be happy to cut spending for the other 75 to 80 schools. It would probably save them money in the long run.
It would eventually die bc like mentioned tv ratings drop bc fallout and many left out who would stop watching. The current model gets good ratings bc the overall viewership is there from various schools stopping by the channel to see Bama.
Dunno what Tulane did, but I think Utahs case is made out to be bigger than it was. Yeah it seemed Orin Hatch got them in because of his threats but really the PAC was always going to add Utah. BYU was never an option.
I think a better comparison would be Louisville and WVU. When the Big 12 was still deciding which one to add, Mitch McConnell was doing a lot of sabre rattling. He made some strong statements in support of Louisville and threatened dire action if B12 selected WVU. Well in the end ESPN wanted WVU and they were added, McConnell did f all!
Ultimately it worked out for Louisville and they got an invite to the ACC a couple of years later, but McConnell was not able to force ESPN to make B12 add them.
Let’s face it, the unfortunate fact is that no US lawmaker will block interests of giant corporations. Good luck getting senators and representatives to vote against ESPN and Fox!
Lawyers go where the money is and the government has blocked the interest of big business in many cases. The gov breaks up monopolies. The fact that Sandusky mentioned “lawsuits and negative fallout” is because he knows they are a threat. You can say UTAH eventually would have gotten in the pac12 but the lawsuit expedited it. There was a direct cause and effect in the sense of timing.
Contrary to the narrative the SEC/ BIG want to push out there, they are not the entirety of college football . Plenty of quality football, and fans outside the two conferences.
Why haven’t they broken away. The big12 and ACC, combined represent 1/3 of college football representation and valuation. Not including the G5s.
I see this as the BIG/ SEC facing tremendous pressure from the networks to justify their $70 million payouts per school.
Yormack and Jim Philips need to put their foot down, dare them to break away.
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Political/social influence from social and governmental influence and control are causung many which may be statistically more likley to have good character and supportive families to go to private grade school or home schooling. That means less exposure of so many good kids and so their getting less or no athletic scholarship attention.
That means a negative effect on quality and number of public high school athletes of character.
The airline industry begs to differ. They cater to the 20% of business and first class passengers who generate 80% of the profit. Economy class passengers be damned and alienate them with smaller legroom.
I remember learning in my Marketing class in business school 20 plus years ago (Bauer in the House) that 20 percent of customers generate 80 percent of profits, and more importantly, a business case could be made that getting rid of customers could theoretically be profitable. Ironically, the test case for this was the airline industry! At the time it was a hypothetical, as data analytics did not have the computing power it does now. However, this theory has since been proven accurate at least for now. As we learned in Econ, it all depends how elastic or inelastic demand for air travel, fast food, cars, college football, cable tv, streaming etc., is.
I wouldn’t say that that is implausible, given that, as I’ve mentioned many times before, you need roughly that amount of teams to keep all the TV slots offered by all of the content providers full.
Having been a G5, Cougar High, etc. I am not interested in elitism. It’s a toxic environment and divisive. There’s still always someone looking down on you.