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17 hours ago, 66BUFF said:

Carolina and Virginia not too attractive on this list.  UCLA is lucky that Fox wanted all of the LA market

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Check out the number of times each school made the top 100 viewed games (two seasons). The SEC has six teams with a double digit number. The B1G has four. The B12 has one (CU). The ACC has one. I wonder what the numbers will look like when they are covering 2024 and 2025?

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8 hours ago, 'stache said:

Let’s get the right thread back on track. This is interesting. Is everyone eventually going this direction?

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Thanks for bringing this up. It’s very interesting. 
 
The B1G schools’ ADs get more media revenue than anyone but ND. It is telling that all but Michigan and tOSU (who are hesitant) are interested. 
 
Couple of points:

1. Private Equity sells itself as maximizing revenue in ways that ADs can’t. 
2. Every one of those schools has business schools that claim to be able to teach students how PE works. Can they really not figure out how to maximize revenue on their own?

 
I suspect that this is a function of ADs struggling to meet their House Settlement $20M annual nut, while trying to do everything else they are on the hook for. 
 
There is an alternative- Michigan, the Buckeyes, and the other schools that have enough revenue for the demands of this new era, can break away into their own Premiere League division. 

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1 minute ago, statsman said:

There is an alternative- Michigan, the Buckeyes, and the other schools that have enough revenue for the demands of this new era, can break away into their own Premiere League division. 

Yeah, but then they wouldn't have the big state patsies on their schedule to pad their resumes.

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Just now, DFW Horn said:

Yeah, but then they wouldn't have the big state patsies on their schedule to pad their resumes.

Yeah, it will look more like the NFL, where no one cares if KC lost five regular season games, or the NBA, where a 53 win team can win the championship (college basketball already made that transition decades ago). 

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Just now, statsman said:

Yeah, it will look more like the NFL, where no one cares if KC lost five regular season games, or the NBA, where a 53 win team can win the championship (college basketball already made that transition decades ago). 

I don't watch pro sports for this reason - the seasons are too damn long. Athletes can't play their best for 17 regular-season football games, 82 basketball, 162 baseball. It's over-saturation. Only a degenerate gambler can pay attention and be emotionally invested for that long.

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I've said it a million times, but I'd love to see the Top 15ish brands breakaway and just play each other.

No one has to listen to blue bloods bitch about playing non-blue bloods.  Schools that don't create the massive revenue aren't being artificially propped up by those who do.  You end up with two separate tiers that will each be pretty financially viable as schools 16-70 or so still have lots of interest, and now they'll actually have a chance to win a title.

You'd have a Prestige Worldwide group that looks something like this.  Those teams play their "division" and cross division games, and then have a top half playoff at the end of the year.

West:  USC, Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, Aggy, Bama, Auburn

East:  Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida State

Everyone else organizes geographically and plays for their own title on a similar format.

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Then you'd arrange the rest of the current P4ish into 8 team divisions like this

Pacific:  Washington, Wazzu, Ore St, Cal, Stanford, UCLA, AZ, ASU

Southwest:  Utah, BYU, CU, TTU, Baylor, TCU, SMU, Houston

Great Plains:  Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa, Iowa State, Mizzou, OK State

Midwest:  Illinois, NW, Indiana, Purdue, Cincy, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mich State

Northeast:  Pitt, WVU, BC, CUse, Rutgers, Maryland, UVA, VA Tech

Southern Coast:  Clemson, Miami, NCSU, GA Tech, Duke, Wake, UNC, UCF

Southeast:  Ole Miss, Miss St, Vandy, South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisville, USF

You play your division, division winners go to the playoffs, plus one at large, and your non-con is a rotating series of cross division games.

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27 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Then you'd arrange the rest of the current P4ish into 8 team divisions like this

Pacific:  Washington, Wazzu, Ore St, Cal, Stanford, UCLA, AZ, ASU

Southwest:  Utah, BYU, CU, TTU, Baylor, TCU, SMU, Houston

Great Plains:  Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa, Iowa State, Mizzou, OK State

Midwest:  Illinois, NW, Indiana, Purdue, Cincy, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mich State

Northeast:  Pitt, WVU, BC, CUse, Rutgers, Maryland, UVA, VA Tech

Southern Coast:  Clemson, Miami, NCSU, GA Tech, Duke, Wake, UNC, UCF

Southeast:  Ole Miss, Miss St, Vandy, South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisville, USF

You play your division, division winners go to the playoffs, plus one at large, and your non-con is a rotating series of cross division games.

Human nature means this will never happen.  The likes of Texas Tech and Baylor would rather sue and force all schools to play at a reduced buy in amount and then share revenue equally.

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