This is a good article about the current state of college sports. It includes an overview of all the reasons schools really need to maximize revenue right now (impending multi-billion dollar lawsuits they will likely settle out of court before it goes to trial and then of course going forward they will have to share all revenue with the players).
The obvious way to get more money is more playoff games, with the money from those games going to the conference of the schools that play in the games.
On the football side, the SEC is pushing for all 12 CFP spots to be at-large with no auto-bids for any conferences. The B1G proposal is to just expand the field to 16 with a 5+11 model, which essentially does the same thing and theoretically allows any conference a shot at up to 12 spots.
The Big12 and ACC in a similar line of thinking want to expand the basketball tournament because that is where they feel like they can earn outsized revenue. Right now roughly 40% of the spots (27 out of 68) go to small conferences. The article speculates that the power conferences could even split away and hold their own tournament so they don’t share the $$$ at all anymore with the Cinderellas, but I think that is seen as more of a nuclear option that is not the first choice for anyone.
Lots more in the article….
The obvious way to get more money is more playoff games, with the money from those games going to the conference of the schools that play in the games.
On the football side, the SEC is pushing for all 12 CFP spots to be at-large with no auto-bids for any conferences. The B1G proposal is to just expand the field to 16 with a 5+11 model, which essentially does the same thing and theoretically allows any conference a shot at up to 12 spots.
The Big12 and ACC in a similar line of thinking want to expand the basketball tournament because that is where they feel like they can earn outsized revenue. Right now roughly 40% of the spots (27 out of 68) go to small conferences. The article speculates that the power conferences could even split away and hold their own tournament so they don’t share the $$$ at all anymore with the Cinderellas, but I think that is seen as more of a nuclear option that is not the first choice for anyone.
Lots more in the article….