College Sports / Conference Realignment
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there are not many schools that move the meter for being worthwhile financially to add .
Utah is not one of them .
Yep,
and while I mentioned BYU, them not playing on Sundays would necessitate changing the B1G tournament on the basketball side, which they will NOT do... so yeah, back to Notre Dame and who else? Miami/NC/GT perhaps? I don't realistically see the B1G adding anyone until ND is forced to give up their independent status. And that would require the B1G AND SEC teams to just flat out refuse to play them anymore, hint, not gonna happen! But if it DID, then we'd quickly go into negotiations with a few teams to be Notre Dames bridesmaid....
Illini in Italy
- Illini HQ, Florida Panhandle
The most ecumenical college conference in the nation.
I still don't get the $20.5 million thing. Is that across the board? Does North Texas state get the same $ that UT does? Is the max for schools who have a full spectrum of athletics available? What about basketball only schools, do they get the same amount? I guess the schools decide who get what amount of $$$ and then NIL is entirely separate? Then what about 'certain schools' who can decide to pay student-athletes directly? Who makes that call on which schools can or cannot? Lots of areas to manage and be concerned about.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
There is no longer any such thing as the Rose Bowl.
The Grandaddy of 'Em All is just a gravestone in a cemetery.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
Big Ten revenue soared to $928 million for 2024 fiscal year ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6338425/2025/05/06/big-ten-revenue-soared-2024/
University of New Haven joining the NEC as the school begins its transition from D-II to D-I on July 1. The Chargers will become the conference's 10th full member and will be fully D-I in 2028-29. They will be integrated into NEC schedules this year with the exception of football as their addition to that schedule is still TBD.
fyi...I sort of missed that this actually seems to be settled now. 40% split evenly among long time full members - 60% split by average TV ratings over that last 5 years. Seems like some incentive for ACC teams to schedule harder out of conference games (if FSU getting penalized for the weak ACC a coupe years ago wasn't enough already) and fight for the premium TV spots.
Leaving the conference, there is a declining penalty as time goes on until 2029-30 at which it hits a 75 million exit fee & at which point the school gets to keep your media rights. Seems like the ACC is safe until 2029-30 school year. After that depends on if they have any suitors & where TV contracts are going.
Dan
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"ESPN has signaled that it is willing to increase the rights fee it pays the SEC — potentially by as much as $80 million per year — should the conference expand to a nine-game football schedule, according to Andrew Marchand and Seth Emerson of The Athletic."
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News: ESPN-SEC, NBCU, Flagship, Around the Horn
ESPN is reportedly willing to pay the SEC tens of millions more in rights fees if the conference expands its football schedule.
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Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
That is A LOT of games for the "play in" teams. Would the conference championship be cancelled? Or, would the 1 vs 2 be locked in, so that neither would be subject to the play-in game. I would hate to lose the conference championship, drop to 3rd in the standings, have to play again, to get an 8 seed in the CFP and play 4 more games to win the title. If the 1 and 2 are locked in prior to the conference championship, then they all would be playing the same # of games.
Trying to increase it after year one of the 12 team playoff? That's crazy.
The fall of the PAC-12 should be a Harvard business case. Amazing how an entire storied conference with that much pull managed to overplay it's hand so badly it got destroyed.
Serious Late
- Peoria via Denver via Ann Arbor via Albuquerque vi
There is very little in college sports i found more gross than 5 MWC schools bailing on their conference to join up with 2 programs that were just bailed on by every other team in their conference.
If they stand firm, the MWC is a 14 team strong conference with as much weight/pull as any G5 conference. Now, it is a decimated MWC turning to programs in Illinois, and schools such as UC Davis. Meanwhile, the new P12 doesn't have enough schools to form a conference and may ultimately take a school from a lower rung than any of the MWC schools, just to get the minimum 8 teams.
None of it was necessary, and it sure doesn't seem beneficial to either side at this point.
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