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[QUOTE="ForCuseSake, post: 4249193, member: 266"]
Perhaps the schools who forego joining the super league (or don't make the cut) create a governing body that collectively bargained all broadcasting rights.

Maybe called something like "National Collegiate Athletic Association"...

And they'd negotiate with networks and streaming platforms on behalf of all sports across all conferences with the understanding that universities would share equally in broadcasting revenue.

Conferences can go back to being mostly regional affiliations.  Game times might be less frequently held hostage by broadcast schedules (hello, streaming) and this could improve quality of life for student/athletes.

Of course this would mean that some of the more lucrative university brands would have to accept the broadcast revenue sharing concept at the expense of squeezing every last drop out of their ADs.

One can dream.

One thing I think will kill college athletics, at any level, is players forming a union.  The regulations that will follow (health/safety, salary, taxes, etc.) will probably make university presidents/chancellors consider scrapping the whole AD.

Why waste university resources complying with hundreds of scholarship athletes at the expense of thousands of regular students.

As my favorite saying goes...

Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered.
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