(09-20-2016 08:39 PM)GhentFan Wrote: (09-19-2016 06:08 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote: you would see expenses go up dramatically and you would see live fan support crumble and you would see payouts to conferences decline dramatically as live broadcasting expenses went up and up
the end result would be the death of college sports at an even faster pace than now and eventually some groups of schools would get together and break away and get out from the stupidity of relegation
people that come up with this nonsense have no idea of the logistics of scheduling games, getting teams to and from games, having facilities for teams along with what many fans go through to make sure they can travel to see several games a year either at the home stajium or road games
I don't really think it's complete nonsense. Even if the logistics commands a lot of effort they should learn something from the other leagues that schedule their following seasons games after the season is done.
yea they can learn how to spend a ton of cash to lock in hotel rooms they do not need and how to spend lots more cash on last minute travel and how to take a cut in media payouts to cover the cost of the media having to make last minute plans to get to games to cover them instead of having a year or more worth of notice to book travel and rooms
then they can learn that college sports that rely on a lot of fans from out of town traveling to small markets will go broke when their fans instead have to wait until 6 months before games are scheduled to try and make plans and try and find out where their team will be playing their games and they will decide that figuring out travel plans for away games is simply no longer worth it any more
you don't seem to understand the aspects of LONG TERM planning that goes into scheduling games and making travel plans for the teams and the media
take the NFL for existence right now the NFL has hotel rooms locked in with deposits in every city that has a team for all the dates possible that there could be a playoff game
as teams become playoff ineligible the NFL cancels those rooms, but they get back only a small portion of anything at all of those deposits and as the dates get closer and closer to then the rooms are needed (or not needed) they get back pretty much nothing from those deposits because it is too late for the hotels to re-book those rooms for other events
the media companies also do the same for their camera crews and commentators and other production staff
they also book other venues to have media events like convention space and meeting spaces
when January comes and the NCAA season is over for football you don't just tell a program like WSU or Oregon State "hey you will be playing in the MWC this next season" so all those hotel rooms you had deposits on in all the places you were going to be playing PAC 12 games well cancel those and start trying to find a place for 150+ people to stay in whatever MWC cities you are now playing games
and PS be sure and let your fans know you will not be coming to any of those PAC 12 games they need to find some rooms in MWC cities and make some travel plans for those as well
yea that will be really popular and easy to accomplish and come with little to no cost