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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5157871, member: 173"]
No kidding networks aren’t willing to pay more right now.  Ratings for college basketball are terrible and have generally declined for a couple decades now - why would they be excited to pay more for it?

The entire point is that if the majors break away, and instead of playing lots of early season pointless games, it’s all games against other majors. That should lead to bigger regular season audiences on its own.  We already see that trend, as conferences increase the number of games in-conference.  I’m not “inventing an increased audience” - but assuming it would be increased based on actions the conferences have already taken is a valid assumption.

The closer statement to reality is that you are assuming that playing more regular season games vs big name programs as opposed to the current approach won’t have any positive impact on TV ratings at all.  That seems like the much more dubious assumption of the two being made in this discussion…
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