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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Media rights may also not be as valuable in the future. ESPN is no longer a cash cow; heck, Disney is practically begging for additional investors and has had multiple rounds of layoffs. Connected TV ad revenue and the impact of sports on streaming services numbers are still in their infancy. I wouldn't bank on the pot always growing like it has.[/quote]

Football is the largest media audiences. Doesn’t matter who ponies up.[/quote]

ESPN already told the SEC that they don't want a 9th game. CFB isn't the NFL. Titans at Cardinals will still generate ratings; the same doesn't hold for Purdue at Rutgers. The B1g can try to renegotiate now that they've brought in more teams, but of those 4, only Oregon will generate ratings. Does anyone think CBS is popping champaign because they now have rights to air Cal games? I think that we're moving towards super conferences, because [b]eventually OSU and Alabama will wonder why they are splitting money with Minnesota and South Carolina[/b] and that's how you get a super league. Regionalism is dead and it's all about money. Right now the money is in large conferences, but when only a handful of teams in those conferences are driving the revenue, those who aren't shouldn't feel comfortable. [/quote]

OSU & Alabama need lesser teams to achieve winning records.

Also, there are other sports which need conference competitors.

Your final point is why the NFL has a draft with the worst teams getting the earliest picks in an attempt to create a more equal level of competition.[/quote]

You can get patsies without an equal payout [/quote]

Sure, but it will destroy the product.[b] Plus, you misunderstand the politics of major college football which involves state politics and decades long rivalries.[/b]

So, sure you can destroy the product for the possibility of more money in the near term, but only a fool would do so.

Regarding moves out of the Pac-12 by teams to more stable conferences is about survival as much as it is about money.[/quote]

You mean like the back yard brawl or the apple cup or the civil war? Expansion is showing just how little value tradition has when money is on the lone [/quote]

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