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Message: [QUOTE="shantydaze, post: 201621, member: 666"] I agree the lack of stability is/was the problem with the BE. It created a situation in which the football schools were a lot of the head coaching jobs were seen as a stepping stone, as opposed to a destination. The question, therefore, is what, if anything, the BE management could have done to create additional stability. As football became more and more popular and lucrative for conferences, the organizational structure of the BE of the Conference was flawed and caused some of the instability. Football and basketball provide the Conference and its schools most of their revenue. By creating a conference where some schools play basketball, but not football, the interests of the schools do not align and there is not a stable relationship between all of the schools. In effect, the BE is two separate conferences - a football conference and a basketball/non-revenue sports conference. The second problem with the BE was unequal revenue sharing. I recall reading an article about why Miami decided to move from the BE to the ACC. One of the biggest reasons was unequal revenue sharing. When Miami was doing well, playing for national championships, this was not a problem because it demanded the largest share of the pie. When it went on probation, though, it realized it was hard to run a stable athletic program when the amount of revenue received was not guaranteed. This same issue caused the recent problems in the Big 12. It should be no surprise a conference founded on a flawed and unstable premise was not able to remain intact. BE management failed to take steps to address this issue when it became apparent college football would become more lucrative than college basketball. How could it though? For the football schools, the best option to keep the BE together would have been to jettison the basketball onlies and adopt equal revenue sharing. This was not in the best interest of the basketball schools though. [/QUOTE]

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