I get UConn is upset but the arguments in this article are a bunch of whining with little thought put into them. For example:
Quote:The 65 Power 5 schools that commandeer the great majority of revenue in college sports want no change beyond cherry-picking a school here and there to corral more revenue
Standard argument you hear lot from northeast liberals, that wealth is all one big finite pie so you getting your share means someone else's share must be smaller. False. CFB wealth comes from TV contracts and it is not the P5 preventing ESPN of CBS or Fox from offering the AAC a 20 million dollar contract.
Quote:This leaves 63 schools, known as the Group of 5, trying to play big-time football without the big-time revenue. Can 18 percent of the NCAA Division I membership make a lot of noise? Sure. Can those five conferences push through NCAA legislation to help level the football field?
So, you're saying the problem is that you want to play at the highest and most expensive level of CFB but its not fair that you can't spend as much as others do at this level so it's up to the NCAA, the body that has nothing to do with paying schools for FB TV contracts, to step in and make things fair?
Quote:This leaves 15-20 schools that could put together a huge all-fronts battle to gain some kind of equitable distribution before they spend themselves into oblivion.
There it is again. A failure to understand that the uneven money comes from TV revenue and that the neither the NCAA or the P5 have any say or control over because of:
Quote:Unfortunately, it goes far beyond that. In NCAA v. Oklahoma Board of Regents, the Supreme Court ruled in 1984 the NCAA television plan violated the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts and was a restraint of open competition and trade. The conferences and the big-time networks have been free for decades to make their own individual deals
Wait so you DO understand! You're not AGAINST monopoly! You just want to NCAA to have it's old TV monopoly restored so that it can redistribute wealth to YOU that you cant get from the TV contracts. But again, this is northeast politics talking ey Comrade?
Quote:The Power 5 conferences essentially can act as a cartel, restricting membership, doling out hundreds of millions of dollars to long-standing weaker conference cronies while more competitive athletic programs are left on the outside.
It's called freedom of association and it applies to all private clubs including your AAC who doesn't have to let in Maine or Delaware or anyone else just because they think it's more fair if they are allowed in. But again, that nasty "freedom" word is getting in the way of equality and fairness isnt it Comrades?
Quote:Can't there be a meeting of the minds among the NCAA, the Power 5 and networks for some kind of revenue sharing formula from its vast goldmine based on money invested into football, into athletic programs to help mitigate Group of 5 losses?
So once again, neither the NCAA or the P5 have any say or control over what TV offers to pay for your products. You don't like this so your solution is "Restore the NCAA TV monopoly so they may redistribute the wealth to us!"