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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 5040471, member: 622"] I agree with your assessment. My thoughts are that after a few years of the top heavy SEC, most schools will realize the zero sum gain does not favor top heavy conferences. There can be only one conference champion each year. Texas, OU, Bama, LSU, and UGA cannot win regularly and the lesser teams, TAMU, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida will rarely get a shot at the conference title, and the former mid tier teams will fall to Vandy status. Fans and donors, especially big donors, will not be content with few and far between conference championships and losing to mediocre performances. I am leaning towards the bulk of the FBS teams telling the SEC and B1G to split off and they cannot play the remaining FBS teams. This would force the SEC and B1G to the above realization. Without the other conferences, the mid tier and bottom tier teams will feel the heat immediately and the top tier teams will see even their records are no longer padded with the few easy nonconference games they enjoyed to pad their records. Essentially, they slice their own throats because the fans and donations will fall off. I think there are enough wise people in the SEC and B1G to avoid what could happen, which explains Sankey’s desire to keep all of FBS in the overall fold, though he obviously wants to maximize revenue for the SEC. I think he knows that a small elite league is just NFL lite and will turn off most CFB fans, as most schools will be cut out of the NFL lite league. Further, an elite league will garner governmental eyes, especially if big states are left out, I.e. NY, VA, NC. And we can never forget the impact of the networks. The money men will not be happy losing revenue when the non-NFL lite league teams stop watching the B1G and SEC games as they have no basis or interest in them. Regardless, the SEC and B1G are in the driver’s seat for now but without the remaining conferences to victimize, they lose power. The next few years in CFB will be interesting. [/QUOTE]

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