"OU Insider: all conferences could be gone within decade"

Read: "Our conference sucks so we want to get rid of yours"

(08-09-2016 11:39 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  "OU Insider: all conferences could be gone within decade"

Read: "Our conference sucks so we want to get rid of yours"

+1. Yep.

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This insider must live on Mars.

(08-09-2016 11:45 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(08-09-2016 11:39 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  "OU Insider: all conferences could be gone within decade"

Read: "Our conference sucks so we want to get rid of yours"

+1. Yep.

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+2 Double Yep!!!

(08-05-2016 09:59 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  It's just off-season nonsense. People have been predicting this since the 70s.

This is a lot like the four superconferences idea that people continually predict will definitely happen (Barry Tramel predicted it today on satellite radio) but which almost certainly will not happen - at least not in any of our lifetimes.

It is not going to happen because the infrastructure is not set up for it to happen. There is no end game like people keep insisting there is because there is no central entity pulling the strings and none of these entities trusts the others.

The Power Five conferences are not run like a professional sports league, they're run like professional boxing – every man for himself. Until people come to understand and accept that reality, they're going to continually be surprised and disappointed with the results.

This, I think the most that happens is the Big 12 is gone and there is a little more realignment.

Streaming services are going to get into the sports business for sure. The thing is, they'll spend money to buy content. They wont be willing to pay practically their whole company's-worth to be willing to blow up conferences to create a new super conference. That just doesn't make sense in our current landscape.