(06-18-2014 07:19 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(06-18-2014 12:51 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  No, at some point, conference cleansing will occur. All of the P5 conferences will replace their revenue leeches! The only variable is time! After all when replacing the leeches will increase revenues it will happen.

It's too difficult to just kick out a school or two, because of conference by-laws and political blowback. Otherwise it would have already happened because it would be worth a lot of money.

IMO a likely possibility if the big moneymakers decide to get aggressive is threatening to leave in order to force unequal revenue distribution within the conference. If, for example, Alabama effectively provides one-fourth of the SEC's market value, how long are they going to settle for one-fourteenth of the conference revenue?

The ACC, Big XII, Pac-12, and SEC all trace their history back to a group of schools dissatisfied with the conference they were in and creating a new one. You are correct, schools don't get kicked out very often, instead of kicking someone out, the unhappy ones just leave.