College athletics article in the NYT

[radecicco]

A BOR member, Jordan Acker, from the University of Michigan wrote the most hypocritical article on college athletics i’ve ever read.

He bemoans what college athletics has become, unlimited transfers, too much money in the sport, travel for athletes, giant conferences. Well, the B1G is the conference most responsible for blowing up the college sports model. It alone destroyed a century old conference merely to grab more money. At least the SEC stayed somewhat regional.

And now he’s proposing that to solve the problem, the major conferences need to break away and form their own organization in order to have the universities or the broadcast partners directly pay the athletes. Uneffingbelievable.

(Sorry the article is behind a pay wall.)

 

[HALL85]

A BOR member, Jordan Acker, from the University of Michigan wrote the most hypocritical article on college athletics i’ve ever read.

He bemoans what college athletics has become, unlimited transfers, too much money in the sport, travel for athletes, giant conferences. Well, the B1G is the conference most responsible for blowing up the college sports model. It alone destroyed a century old conference merely to grab more money. At least the SEC stayed somewhat regional.

And now he’s proposing that to solve the problem, the major conferences need to break away and form their own organization in order to have the universities or the broadcast partners directly pay the athletes. Uneffingbelievable.

(Sorry the article is behind a pay wall.)

This is exactly where it was meant to be going by those with the money and influence.

 

[SOBO1]

Football just needs to form its own national super conference with 60 teams and multiple divisions. Those teams make the college football playoff and allow all other sports to compete in regional conferences.

Similar to the Pioneer Football League which is a football only conference at the FCS level. I don’t know why this model couldn’t be applied to FBS. Seems extremely logical and solves all the problems associated with conference realignment.

 

[SHUSource]

Football just needs to form its own national super conference with 60 teams and multiple divisions.

This will certainly happen in or about ten years from now, but the number of schools will be half that. Why lug around 60 when half of them are dead wood? At a time when it’s become mostly about football brand, markets having become an outdated qualifier, the elite programs will seek to split their huge pot among fewer and fewer schools now. Those programs have national appeal now and aren’t interested in having the Wake Forests, Vanderbilts, Purdues, and Rutgerses diluting their profits. Why would they?

 

[HALL85]

This will certainly happen in or about ten years from now, but the number of schools will be half that. Why lug around 60 when half of them are dead wood? At a time when it’s become mostly about football brand, markets having become an outdated qualifier, the elite programs will seek to split their huge pot among fewer and fewer schools now. Those programs have national appeal now and aren’t interested in having the Wake Forests, Vanderbilts, Purdues, and Rutgerses diluting their profits. Why would they?

The “Jimmy Conway strategy” from Goodfellas.

I see it getting to 40…SEC and B10 positioned to pick winners and losers from the rest.

CFB makes their money during the season and will be limited to a three week max playoff of 16 teams. That works with 40 teams.

CBB makes their money on March Madness…you need a biggerfield for a three week tournament.

 

[SHUSource]

This will certainly happen in or about ten years from now, but the number of schools will be half that. Why lug around 60 when half of them are dead wood? At a time when it’s become mostly about football brand, markets having become an outdated qualifier, the elite programs will seek to split their huge pot among fewer and fewer schools now. Those programs have national appeal now and aren’t interested in having the Wake Forests, Vanderbilts, Purdues, and Rutgerses diluting their profits. Why would they?

As the latest College Football Playoff meetings commence Tuesday, [Washington State president Kirk] Schulz has an idea of what's coming next, and it's not good.

• Will the media rights bubble finally burst? The transition from linear to streaming as a video delivery system should occur in the next 5-10 years, potentially impacting the next round of media rights contracts.
• Will there be more third-party involvement in the sport? A recent Sports Business Journal report noted that Fox and ESPN could one day partner with the NFL to "buy" the top 40 college football teams.