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Maybe we can convince a Stanford billionaire like the NVIDIA guy to throw in a bunch of money in the name of upgrading athletics in an academic-focused super league, and then kick FSU out too 🤣

IMO FSU’s complaints make a lot more sense if the ACC has been talking about further watering things down with these PAC schools

Bringing in Cal/Stanford without Oregon/Washington (or ideally USC/UCLA but that was probably never realistic) definitely would feel like a bad copycat move. The ACC has a lot of “sometimes can be very good but don’t have the huge stable fanbases of the biggest SEC or Big10 schools” programs...

I don't think Oregon and Washington add much to the ACC. The Big 12 would be a better fit geographically and also the Big 12 could've used Oregon more than the ACC, and I guess Washington is a not-terrible take-me-with-you. I don't think it would've made sense for anyone, the ACC doesn't have...

The way the ACC catches up in TV money is if come 2030-2032ish, the same money for the Big 10 and the SEC is no longer there. (I don't personally think the Big 12 is going to pass the ACC in their next deal at that point, but those two other leagues already have). But that's also not stability...

Countdown to this taking a few more hops and being re-posted somewhere as "BREAKING: ACC threatening to fine FSU for public comments"

Yeah, even the MLB is getting slowly closer, though - you see the Dodgers/Sox/Yankees making a lot more "luxury cap penalty reset" moves than they ever would've in the past. Which opened the door for stuff like Seager/DeGrom to TEX. CFB doesn't care about anyone but your conference buddies, so...

There are reasons all the pro leagues independently converged on revenue sharing and parity measures + coast-to-coast national footprints. So the only thing I'd disagree with you on here is that I think on the current course, the "haves" will (post-2030ish) continue to get relatively richer...

The reason I'm asking about viewer demo breakdowns, geographic dispersion, "what school are they a fan of first" is because I have former colleagues now in the streaming industry who are intently interested in all of those things for long-term-pie-growing reasons (sports or non-sports) and it's...

This is one of those meta-points that I haven't seen discussed much compared to other parts of it. Once you're in your own little walled-off thing, discoverability drops and there more steps for the viewer acquisition funnel. The cable system was incredibly friendly to college sports in...

Shoot, is there anyone on this message board that will claim to be a bigger fan of CFB overall, and more likely to watch Big 10 games, than they were 20 years ago? Anecdotes != data and all, but if you want a case study of interest in national powerhouses in a different geographical region from...

I don't think SEC leadership has enough nationwide or age-demographics-wide perspective to pull this off without doing more damage burning the CFB world down than they'll be able to recover from afterwards. And that'll make me sad if it just accelerates the kids/young adults moving to us being...

Fantasy Football is another one of those things that the NFL leveraged brilliantly that doesn't really exist in the same way in college to get fans in NE to care about Matt Stafford or whoever every week. EDIT: I picked Stafford since New England->Los Angeles is about as far away as it gets...

Growing a league in the 1950s and the 2020s/30s would be wildly different ballgames. And we're not even talking about the giant elephant in the room: kids don't care. And now your historically best way to turn kids into big-time-CFB fans - on campus when they're in school - suddenly is missing...

I would love to see numbers on second order analysis of eyeballs and such. Here I'm purely speculating and don't know how well the conferences or networks themselves even have a handle on this, but I've been thinking about a few different sort of big game types, maybe well-exemplified by...

That’s the real trick, ain’t it? “If you hate what’s happening, root for this team” instead of “if you hate what’s happening, stop watching”. I think both the Big 10 and SEC strategies have enormous “we burned the whole sport down just to stay on top of the ashes” risks. It was hidden some by...

Part of the appeal of the college game is the variety which would likely be completely dead in a 40 team super league. And then … why not just watch the NFL? Minor league pro sports rarely do that well. An 60-80 team super league could preserve history and “amateurism” and all but would be an...

Ah, I hadn’s seen the national interest quotes from Sankey, just “we won’t expand solely to keep up with the Joneses” ones which I read given their history of slowly poaching their nearest old SWC neighbors as a geographic, not just numeric, thing.

Look if you don’t believe there’s a chance of an infection point for a regional league hitting a local maximum and then falling off, that’s fine, but maybe read the part where I said it has worked great so far so you don’t just post numbers that agree with both of us. The SEC right now is as...

And they’re gonna drive themselves into the ground with it. It’s gonna work great to find a local maximum until they are the NHL and the southeast is Canada.