BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Let me fix this.

 

They're looking for a "final solution." Rutgers, Indiana, Mississippi State, Illinois, Arkansas, Michigan State, pack your bags. You'll be getting off on Level 2.

Bama, Georgia, UM, USC, OSU, OU, Texas ... they're going to the penthouse.

 

These colleges are BEGGING Congress to help them cap NIL and they go and put an anti-trust case on a tee for the DOJ? Cartel anyone? It will be funny if after all the detanglements from the NCAA over the years - football was forced to move back in with the parents.

 

Best summed up by a Tweet I just saw.

"The inmates announced today that they want to run the asylum."

 

Thanks I hate it.

 

Football can do anything it wants as long as the NCAA basketball tournaments remain as they are.
March Madness is the single best event in American sports. If it goes away, everybody loses. Fans, schools, governments, etc. It would be kind of wild if, just as more and more states legalize sports betting, one of the biggest gambling revenue sources goes away.

 

They're stupid enough to do it, though. And they have no real guardrails stopping them.

 

If the little guy gets shut out of the NCAA tournament, it's over for about two thirds of Division I. Basketball props up a lot of those athletic departments, and if the carrot of getting that one NCAA tournament game and the spotlight that comes with it goes away, you're going to see a lot of schools just drop back to Division II, because what's the fucking point? Maybe that's the grand plan after all.

 

If that's the plan it is a very stupid plan. Kill the goose, yadda yadda.

 

They are already doing it in the NIT, which doesn't matter to a lot of the bigger schools but can be a big deal to a mid-major or a low-major one-bid conferences. Used to be if you won your conference but lost in the conference tournament and didn't get to auto NCAA bid you had an auto NIT bid. That was taken away this past off-season.

 

I think the colleges are catching on that the money isn't "ever expanding" and they aren't baking a bigger pie - the money in the game is all the money there is - and if they want more to make their budgets, they will have to get it from other schools.