All this cord-cutting may lead to a CF super-conference
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Interesting to see who's not on the author's list of the four realigned conferences: among others, Illinois, Indiana, NW, Purdue, Maryland, Syracuse, WVU, BC, VT, NCSU, and...
wait for it...
Rutgres and Pitt.
wait for it...
Rutgres and Pitt.
Less teams = less interest. Pro sports already dominate the market and we will see more nationally covered NFL games on Saturdays. December has to CFP month. 4, 16 team conferences with the 4 champions making the final 4 playoff sets up a built in playoff system.
Improving the content by playing more conference games is essential. Conferences have to develop other sports to get customers to subscribe to the conference networks. SU & Duke hoops are huge draws. They need to incorporate baseball into their networks to have live programming in June & July and into August. Hockey is a growing sport in Florida, Texas, Cali and Arizona, it's another reason to subscribe to a network.
Shrinking the number of teams is a huge risk.
Improving the content by playing more conference games is essential. Conferences have to develop other sports to get customers to subscribe to the conference networks. SU & Duke hoops are huge draws. They need to incorporate baseball into their networks to have live programming in June & July and into August. Hockey is a growing sport in Florida, Texas, Cali and Arizona, it's another reason to subscribe to a network.
Shrinking the number of teams is a huge risk.
I've been saying for several years at some point the power 4 conferences will negotiate TV together at some point. I still expect four 16 team conferences. I expect Northwestern, Purdue, and Vanderbilt to be bought out by their conferences for football but maintain conference membership in most other sports.
Yes, but this equally makes these types of analysis rather absurd. Shrinking the size of D1A Football does not make it more economically stable and viable. By definition, the new "shrunk down" league will become stratified just as the larger universe was stratified. A significant portion of the universe will become perennial losers (many already are). 50% will be extremely mediocre .500 teams over multiple seasons with an above average & below average season-or-two mixed in over a decade. The top quartile will be consistent winners with the top 10-15 programs being the same historic powers that we have now. The reality is that not everybody can be national powers regardless of how small you continue to shrink the universe....there will always be "haves" and "have nots" in terms of how much football revenue a specific team generates.
My guess is that the train that is going to run over college football is already coming down the track- the wave of concussion lawsuits that will be coming to the NFL over the next few years will trickle down to the NCAA and then to the individual colleges.
College admins everywhere will be running for cover, and will gladly do what many of them want to do anyway- end football as we know it.
College admins everywhere will be running for cover, and will gladly do what many of them want to do anyway- end football as we know it.
JMO but they are making a mistake not including NW. As long as Fitzgerald is there they will be good.
