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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 1742093, member: 622"]
The best line is where the writer claims that the B1G will pay out $70-90 MM/team/year.  Why would any business agree to bay 2X, 3X or 4X what they are paying now for the same product?  You and I will not pay 3X the price for a car, why would ESPN or FOX?  There simply is not enough market to support that (see ESPN drawing down!).

The idea that more eyes (increase market) are going to watch less games (squeezing out P5 teams leaves less games/inventory to be watched) and make more money is really naive.

Another great moronic assumption is that NY does not exist.  The NY State TV market has the most important market (See NYC!) and Upstate is roughly the size of any other state under consideration except Texas.  Nobody thinks Rutgers carries NYC or any part of NY.  The only school in the state with nationwide exposure is Syracuse and supposedly Syracuse will land nowhere (a.k.a. AAC) while WVU will be landing in a P5!

It is painfully obvious that too many people really do not look at the big picture and focus on one particular fact or another.  What is missing in virtually all of these wacky schemes is that TV money is really not as much in the overall budget of a school (yes, within the AD, it can 12-20%, or even approach half the budget at a small school like Wake) but in relation to a billion dollar+ entity.  Making a move for $5MM or even $10MM generally is not worth the hassle at that level.  Stability generally will outperform chasing the dollar in the long run.
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