(09-24-2021 05:18 PM)BucDoctor Wrote:  

(09-18-2021 11:12 PM)Buc76 Wrote:  Follow what money?

Sunbelt and Conference USA schools get approximately $500,000 per year in TV revenue including all sports. American Athletic conference schools each get $7 million, ACC schools get $26.6 million, and SEC schools get $68 million each. Once the P5s grow their membership and renegotiate TV deals, the remaining money left for the BCS non-P5 schools will be even more minuscule.

Why spend tens of millions to chase a couple hundred thousand? That is the evolving landscape. It has changed and is not what it use to be. I don't like it, but it is what it is.

So, if we can schedule a Power 5 football opponent each year, we can make about as much off that as the Sunbelt and CUSA pay their schools from their TV deals which could be decreasing as the Power 5 (maybe 4) consolidate the money? And, as that Power 5 money grows, those outsiders called Division I FBS programs will continue trying to gain fame through association by being forced to subsidize their programs even more? Does this sound sustainable for the outsiders? Is there a mega reorganization/realignment coming outside the big folks along geographic, etc lines? To me, that would be about the only way for ETSU, which must protect basketball, to make a realistic move “up”. Is there anyone in the SoCon looking to leave or trying to join? It looks like the OVC is being gutted.