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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4955169, member: 1145"]
I think that indeed that is where things are headed And one thing not means is that before long, both BT and even SEC will cull members. Right now, the fools being  fanboy for the likes of Vandy, Miss St, SoCar, UK, maybe Ole Miss and Arkansas and Mizzou assume they are safe and going to get even richer, forever. Not so fast, my friends, as Corso says. Several SEC schools ands even more BT schools simply cannot be worth much at all in this world. Nobody gives a tenth of a pile of manure for the entire state of IA. Or MN or WI. If you have ND, you have all in IN that you need (remember, football is KING). NJ is worse than a nothing state.

When the most powerful of the schools in the 2 leagues demanding this and the networks driving it and paying for it feel they are fully safe from the NCAA and any other leagues, and politicians, they then will cull, because they will also resent 'carrying water' for the nothings in their own leagues. Realistically, no more than about 30 programs nationally can bring in the necessary number of TV viewers so that nobody else in that 'league' or 'division' can resent them for not carrying their own weight.

That is where this is headed. We need to make it get there faster, with those 30 or so playing all sports only among themselves, in their own 'division.' or else as proclaimed Professional teams. Then the rest of us can refashion D1 NCAA athletics. That will require a new 'conference realignment, ' but it must be done with all leagues sitting down and agreeing to the changes to focus on making it all about regionalism and historic rivalries as the basis of regular season.
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