(12-19-2015 09:51 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(12-18-2015 06:31 PM)samandrea Wrote:  Why would it be dead? What does NCAA do that can't be replaced?

i) it's not that all the coordination/administration that the NCAA does couldn't be done by a new association created by the P5, but that would take a lot of work to set up.

ii) take out non-P5 schools from March Madness, and it's just the ACC tourny + SEC tourny + B1G tourny ....

Only those fanbases will case. No one else will, anymore.

Not only that, but the NCAA tourney does not seem to be very much larger than ideal in terms of media value, which would seem to be 64. The FBS plus Big East (and maybe A10) might be enough for a 64 team tournment, but the P5 alone would not be, especially if there is a further shake-up.

And the Tourney is the main college sports media value where the majority of the value does not lie in the hands of the schools and their conferences, as the NCAA uses it to prop up most of their system.