(05-14-2014 12:38 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(05-13-2014 04:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  All Im suggesting is that we use historically proven ideas and push them to the next level. We know what a half continent G5 model will pay and what its ceiling is. We cannot say the same for a national model.

Though the various network had a chance to bid for a national model Go5 conference with the Old Big East "East of Reno" strategy, and it wasn't enough money to justify the schools in the western half of the country sticking with their plan to join the conference.

Quote: What if it doesn't? Whats the worst case senario? What happens if the ambitious nationwide conference doesnt make any more money and is too expensive for travel? Then it will die and the 16-20 members will simply break apart and become two half continent conferences. So, the downsize risk is virtually nothing. We are essentially living the downside.

Realignment always comes with a cost in terms of disrupted relationships and rivalries ... trying a national conference and failing puts you worse off than if you'd stuck with the 1/3 nation conference and put in the hard, long term work of building it up from within.

Lol. As far as destroyong rivalries, Ive got news for you, realignment did that long ago. As I said, most of the G5 conferences are hodgepodge marriages of convenience. They are simply the results of the left behinds getting together or FCS move-ups getting their big show biz break. If there are any true major G5 rivalries out there----they are few and far between. There are certainly none that anyone on a national scale cares about. Organizing nationally won't cause any major G5 rivalries to be lost---largely because there really are so few that actually exist.

Again, I even believe that the national model won't instantly be tremendously more valuable than the regional model. I believe the public Boise emails indicate the BE deal was around 3 million per school before Boise left (which, had the MW not given Boise a sweetheart deal and had the BE offer been all-sports, Boise likely stays with the BE). I do believe that as a national G5 best of the rest conference has time to become the most dominant, most well known, most followed, and most watched G5 conference, it would pull away from the rest of the G5 in terms of media value and earnings. It might take two or 3 short 5 year contract cycles to completely separate from the rest of the G5 with respect to media value.