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[QUOTE="AcAndAc, post: 5358891, member: 10310"]
We may be assuming that the "haves" are so safe.  I suppose we could see a landscape where the B1G starts looking at how much value they are getting from Northwestern, Rutgers, etc.  Ohio State is OK with running budget deficits... but you have to think that they will eventually want to stop supporting dead weight.

Instead of trying to make a system where all biggish programs are part of the mix, maybe FOX/ESPN go in the other direction... an 20-team league of only the truly "haves" playing each other:

WEST: USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington
SOUTHWEST: Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Nebraska
SOUTHEAST: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee
EAST: Georgia, Clemson, Florida, Florida State
NORTH:  Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State

Let's argue about who is unfairly excluded from this mix?   South Carolina?  Wisconsin?  Miami?  Oh well.  I think it would be OK.  Play your division, plus 2 from each other division = 11 games.  Maybe one game against a Tier II school (see below).

Then Tier II schools could form a few leagues.  And then a Tier III.  Big ranges of compensation... Tier I >>> Tier 2 >>> Tier 3.  Require 2-year contracts and prohibit movements within Tier II and Tier III. Tier I is a free-for-all every year.  A player could move from Tier II up to Tier I or down to Tier III without penalty.  So Tier I steals from Tier II and III (and other Tier I schools)... and Tier II steals from Tier III and takes Tier I rejects.  But the balance of competition is relatively equal within the Tiers.  Maybe this will evolve organically.
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