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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5099074, member: 173"]
I can’t see any way to make that workable.  The SEC was a joke in basketball when I was a kid - but now they take money from TV contracts - mostly driven by football - and spend it on other sports as well.  That’s why the SEC always has a ton of top 25 basketball programs now.

The way this would work in practice is the schools in football conferences with good TV contracts will dominate basketball as well since their overall revenue is so much higher.  (UConn is the exception that proves the rule, the only reason they are winning now is the state is willing to run the athletic department at a huge loss.  That’s not sustainable at state schools, and not possible at private ones). So Syracuse might be part of “high level college basketball” in this scenario - but it would be akin to how Vanderbilt is part of SEC football right now. On paper, sure.  But with no real chance at sustained competitiveness.

And I don’t think football can be spun off as completely separate business units, since football revenues are needed to fund Olympic sports.  People can speculate on football and non-football conferences all they want - there’s no way to get there without creating dozens of new unresolvable problems.  It’s not going to happen.
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