College football realignment: Kirk Herbstreit

[purduehayseed]

College football realignment: Kirk Herbstreit predicts wild future after USC, UCLA move to Big Ten

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247sports.com

as a boiler fan i found this interesting……

i don’t agree the pac should feel “double crossed”.
after the TX and OK move, all ears should have been perked-up
from what i have read, the big was approached by the cali schools.
so did we ‘poach’?

interesting that he thinks purdue, iu, northwestern facilities put the pac12 to ‘shame’. (my take)

maybe we (the ‘poor’ football programs) ain’t as bad as we thought…..?

 

[i'vegotwinners]

lots of talk about facilities, but i think much of the NIL thing is about schools looking to get out of the beyond ridiculous "facilities" wars, with all that money coming out of their own pockets.

yrs ago i wrote a post here musing IU could provide every kid on basketball scholly a new Escalade while they're here for probably less than just the interest money on the facilities war.

no doubt administrators figured that out as well.

all that said, just how much impact can a locker room or weight room have on a recruit?

any kid picking a school by the locker room or weight room is a total moron.

and UCLA can show a recruit something much more impressive than a gold plated locker room on a recruiting trip.

but no locker room can overcome having to drive to Pasadena to play your games.


back to the subject at hand.

the ridiculous facilities war $ comes out of the school's pocket.

same with coaches' salaries.

NIL money comes out of someones else's pockets. (until it doesn't, and it won't).

that said, shifting recruiting strategy from facilities to direct payoffs to players makes sense fiscally. (until it doesn't).

and better benefits the player.

all that said, make no mistake, this isn't about what schools bring what bling and what tv market, those are just the differentiators of who gets picked or picked first.

or about who you do or don't want to play.

this is all about nothing but forming OPEC for college sports tv rights, a negotiating cartel monopoly seller for tv rights, (or a duopoly that negotiates as a monopoly seller), rather than conferences competing against each other.

this absolutely should be illegal, and is supposed to be, and supposed to violate anti trust laws, but anti trust laws went by by when the Supremes legalized business and corps buying off legislators and govt in 1978, and doubled down on that with Citizens United.

that said, unfettered capitalism with no brakes or off switch or regulating authority, just left to it's own lust and the algorithm, might take some turns those who think they avoided the wreck eventually get caught up in and get rear ended themselves.

the thing about monopolization/consolidation and concentration of wealth and power in as few hands as possible, is it has no off switch either.

having a chair now when the music stops, doesn't mean you'll have one the next time it does.

or the time after that.

it's not personal. it's just business.

 

[vesuvius13]

lots of talk about facilities, but i think much of the NIL thing is about schools looking to get out of the beyond ridiculous "facilities" wars, with all that money coming out of their own pockets.

yrs ago i wrote a post here musing IU could provide every kid on basketball scholly a new Escalade while they're here for probably less than just the interest money on the facilities war.

no doubt administrators figured that out as well.

all that said, just how much impact can a locker room or weight room have on a recruit?

any kid picking a school by the locker room or weight room is a total moron.

and UCLA can show a recruit something much more impressive than a gold plated locker room on a recruiting trip.

but no locker room can overcome having to drive to Pasadena to play your games.


back to the subject at hand.

the ridiculous facilities war $ comes out of the school's pocket.

same with coaches' salaries.

NIL money comes out of someones else's pockets. (until it doesn't, and it won't).

that said, shifting recruiting strategy from facilities to direct payoffs to players makes sense fiscally. (until it doesn't).

and better benefits the player.

all that said, make no mistake, this isn't about what schools bring what bling and what tv market, those are just the differentiators of who gets picked or picked first.

or about who you do or don't want to play.

this is all about nothing but forming OPEC for college sports tv rights, a negotiating cartel monopoly seller for tv rights, (or a duopoly that negotiates as a monopoly seller), rather than conferences competing against each other.

this absolutely should be illegal, and is supposed to be, and supposed to violate anti trust laws, but anti trust laws went by by when the Supremes legalized business and corps buying off legislators and govt in 1978, and doubled down on that with Citizens United.

that said, unfettered capitalism with no brakes or off switch or regulating authority, just left to it's own lust and the algorithm, might take some turns those who think they avoided the wreck eventually get caught up in and get rear ended themselves.

the thing about monopolization/consolidation and concentration of wealth and power in as few hands as possible, is it has no off switch either.

having a chair now when the music stops, doesn't mean you'll have one the next time it does.

or the time after that.

it's not personal. it's just business.

One of the key pillars of capitalism is COMPETITION. Many don't understand this because gov't allows consolidations even if it reduces competition to the point a couple of entities can control the market. You are right the college conferences are getting dangerously close or already there with TV markets.