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The ACC will not die because of basketball.
Eventually if the conferences become so big it’s meaningless and they will have to split into sub conferences. In other words they just become little NCAAs.
the big money for basketball is the tournament which gets split up by the NCAA. The big money for football is conference TV rights and bowl games which get split by conferences. A basketball based conference will have every school with a viable football team trying to exit
But the ACC already doesn’t have many football schools. Just can’t see UNC or UVA joining the Big Ten.
Yep, once the carcass of the Big12 is done being plucked, I think the ACC is next. UNC and UVA make sense with UMD in the BIG10, Clemson and FSU or Clemson and Miami to the SEC
I have a feeling the big conferences will split again at some point. Once it is down to West (PAC 16) / North (B1G+ / South (SEC), someone will get the bright idea that they would have a better shot with a separate conference. Also, once there's 3 conferences, you might see something like these conferences existing for football but having a separate conference for all other sports. The NCAA gives a big incentive for smaller conferences in hoops and maybe in other sports.
I'm waiting for a few big conferences to decide to have their own basketball tournament. The NCAA gets the bulk of its revenue from march madness, at what point do the majors just opt out and have their own tournament?
I think you could have an equivalent football product without the non major conferences. I think the basketball product without the smaller schools would be noticeably inferior.
maybe, but does CBS $770 million a year for a tournament without the ACC/Big10/SEC/Pac12? Meanwhile, if those conferences got together, how hard would it be for them to top their take from march madness?
This is the classic case of synergy. I don’t think CBS pays that much for a tourney of just those four conferences. And since I bet that since tomorrow big conferences make 70-80 percent of the revenue anyway, any saving from excluding the little guys will be offset by losses in total revenue. The little guys aren’t going to get equivalent value on their own either.
In news that will delight me for days, Oregon went into Ohio Stadium without their best player and beat Ohio State.
Watching Miami struggle with Appalachian State.
Did you see the cat falling from the upper deck at that game?https://www.instagram.com/p/CTs2CwIM2JR/
Man...the once proud Texas program has really gone to crap...
Are they sure they still want to move to the SEC? Lol.