Meh.
Team up with the Big 12 and Pac. Or maybe the Big 12 and AAC, I dunno, whatever. I'm drunk.
Find a league (think NFL), company or investment group that is interested in running a pro collegiate football league. Lease your names, logos and facilities to those peeps.
Now, pulling numbers straight out of lmy drunken ass, 89.6% of the top prep footballers are now attending YOUR schools and joining THAT league, not the SEC, not the B1G. What's more 86% of casual college football fans are now ignoring the SEC1G altogether because they have an inferior product. Eventually, 63.8% of t-shirt fans jump ship and sing your praises as well.
So, though you've divested yourself of football, you've kept your football fans on board, and you've added new fans. And you've quelled the SECB1GG's footyball revenue potential. Now what?
Permanent b'ball domination, that's what! Withdraw from the NCAA and pay you basketball players. Ain't no one watching the NCAA tournament when literally ALL of the best players are in your association and your association includes the likes of Duke, Carolina, UCLA and Kansas. You're golden
I'd watch