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Message: [QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 1099366, member: 230"] A school outside the big 5 conferences can only opt in if the other teams in their conference approve. No team is going to commit itself to a competitive disadvantage within its conference. It will be all or nothing. The outcome will be that teams like UCon and Boise State, maybe the Hoyas and Nova etc, that make significant money in basketball or football, will either declare their independence, fade away or stiff arm the other teams to allow them the allowable special priviledges, like paying athletes $2,000 per head. There will be tremendous pressure for the smaller programs to build new facilities and generate more revenue so that they can all opt-in and prevent their marquee teams from leaving. This will be decision time for alot of schools. Look for the end of cheap tickets in Div 1. [/QUOTE]