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[QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 42040, member: 994"]
Exactly... but it's not the 1980's anymore.

Now, when power conferences negotiate big primetime TV contracts with ESPN and the networks, who is going to get the best time slots, coverage and $$$?

The conference that comes to the plate and negotiates both football and basketball rights together for major teams for big $$$ or the conference that negotiates their regional, parochial mid-major basketball-only conference?

Look at the A10, and you have the answer.

The landscape has drastically changed since the 80's - the conference economics in play then aren't even remotely applicable by today's standards.

Football runs the show in every other major conference (except the big east), because that is what today's economics dictate.

The league has no one to blame but themselves and the league management for developing a conference model destined for failure.

This day of reckoning didn't come out of nowhere... The writing was on the wall when they raided Conference USA and set-up the unwieldy -Ball/Basketball split after the last re-alignment go-around...
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