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Joel Klatt: Conferences will drop schools that don’t bring in as much revenue as top teams
Posted on 5/27/23 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 5/27/23 at 10:51 pm
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Does it sound crazy? Maybe so, but FOX Sports’ Joel Klatt predicts that the future of conference realignment could include teams being dropped from conferences, once the top-tier programs realize they’re carrying dead weight.
“You know what’s next for us in college football? I told you this is never going to stop, right? I wasn’t lying. This is never going to stop. Because it’s been about who can we add to increase value so that we all make more money,” Klatt said. “Well pretty soon it’s going to start being about who can we drop? I know people think I’m crazy and look at me kind of sideways. That’s absolutely coming. Because again there’s not an unlimited source of money and the money then has to get smarter.”
Klatt went on to say, “And I know a lot of college football fans don’t like this conversation because I’ve said the word money too much,” Klatt said. “But the bottom line is like that’s irrelevant in this model. And I’m going to get to a place where I think that there are some fixes that will make the sport better, but for right now you have to understand that what is going to be entering into college football is really poor economies of scale. Think about it. Now you’ve got all these members, only a few of them are actually driving the overarching value. Almost like taxpayers, right?”
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 10:57 pm to Bench McElroy
He’s right and it sucks arse that greed is destroying the game
Posted on 5/27/23 at 11:00 pm to Bench McElroy
Joel Klatt is a moron. The SEC won’t drop anyone. Although we should drop Arkansas. They’re dead weight. Haven’t won a natty in a big three sport this century. They share that honor with only Mizzou, Tennessee, and Texas A&M in the SEC.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 11:21 pm to Bench McElroy
I think the move is actually a rebellion against the current trajectory. I believe we're going to see schools like Stanford, UF and some others that don't thrive in an NIL environment, break away. A new division will be formed.
No NIL, no portal, rules to govern coaching buyouts, less time away from academics, with a revenue sharing model for players - and I believe this will survive a court challenge for those wanting to keep NIL, and there will be a challenge as soon as the first player inks a deal and the new division says, "ok that's fine, but your eligibility is now gone."
There are many schools in the nation with excellent fan support, that made money, yet will not be big players in NIL. Those schools will still thrive if they go back to a non-NIL system but have a system where players get some money. There are easy solutions for that problem.
No NIL, no portal, rules to govern coaching buyouts, less time away from academics, with a revenue sharing model for players - and I believe this will survive a court challenge for those wanting to keep NIL, and there will be a challenge as soon as the first player inks a deal and the new division says, "ok that's fine, but your eligibility is now gone."
There are many schools in the nation with excellent fan support, that made money, yet will not be big players in NIL. Those schools will still thrive if they go back to a non-NIL system but have a system where players get some money. There are easy solutions for that problem.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 11:30 pm to Bench McElroy
Bye Vanderbilt! You bring nothing but good academics.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 11:54 pm to Bench McElroy
Thanks Texas
Posted on 5/28/23 at 12:37 am to Bench McElroy
Vandy bowling keeping them relevant.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 12:47 am to Bench McElroy
In the end it will all come down to how many schools is wanted in the big picture revenue "league". Is it 64(you have room for the lower end) or more like 48(some are getting cut or bailing)? That's where we're headed just matters how many teams the tv/apparel companies are willing to bankroll.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 1:00 am to Bench McElroy
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Joel Klatt
Posted on 5/28/23 at 6:22 am to Bench McElroy
It will eventually turn into XFL-College
Posted on 5/28/23 at 6:42 am to Bench McElroy
The college football game we all love began its death about 4 years ago.
It’s now just a money grab.
It’s now just a money grab.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 7:03 am to Bench McElroy
Now we will find out just how important private email addresses from a vandy are.
This is something I never quite understood. It was like vandy had this severely important golden key to the conferences with their private school membership.
It was said here that Vanderbilt’s primate emails is how the sec circumvented FOIA to get ou and Tex.
Not sure if that is right.
This is something I never quite understood. It was like vandy had this severely important golden key to the conferences with their private school membership.
It was said here that Vanderbilt’s primate emails is how the sec circumvented FOIA to get ou and Tex.
Not sure if that is right.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 8:22 am to Bench McElroy
Where will Mizzou end up?
Posted on 5/28/23 at 8:31 am to Bench McElroy
I actually don’t see why the idea of contraction has to be so unspeakable. College football on a national scale is a fairly young sport, around 100 years old. Throughout that time as the sport evolved, up until the last 30-40 years, contraction was fairly common as conferences and programs ebbed and flowed. Tulane and Suwanee eventually found themselves no longer prioritizing athletics in a similar fashion to their SEC brethren. Vandy is in a very similar boat. Its a dead weight game on every schedule. Fans and athletes alike don’t want to play them.
Everyone speaks of greed and money causing expansion but the true greed is a program like Vandy continuing to play football in a conference where it has zero chance of ever being a competitor, simply because it makes so much money. How is that fair to their fans, alumni, and athletes when they might have a realistic shot in the Big 12 similar to how Baylor built up their program?
Everyone speaks of greed and money causing expansion but the true greed is a program like Vandy continuing to play football in a conference where it has zero chance of ever being a competitor, simply because it makes so much money. How is that fair to their fans, alumni, and athletes when they might have a realistic shot in the Big 12 similar to how Baylor built up their program?
Posted on 5/28/23 at 8:54 am to Bench McElroy
The problem with that is someone has to lose games in these conferences. You can drop your worst programs but then you’re just making the tier above them the programs that finish at the bottom.
Hell, maybe that’s our true value. A fanbase that will come out to watch even when last in the conference.
Hell, maybe that’s our true value. A fanbase that will come out to watch even when last in the conference.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 10:03 am to Bench McElroy
Bye Missouri
Posted on 5/28/23 at 11:54 am to Bench McElroy
Good.
We can finally kick out bottom feeding, shite eating Arkansas.
We can finally kick out bottom feeding, shite eating Arkansas.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 1:34 pm to Bench McElroy
Bye bye Vandy, Kentucky Miss. schools and Arky
Soon football conferences will hardly resemble other sport conferences.
Soon football conferences will hardly resemble other sport conferences.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 1:48 pm to Bench McElroy
Supposedly if at least 2/3 of the SEC wants to kick someone out then they can do it. That's interesting if true.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 9:58 pm to Bench McElroy
College football will be shite inside of ten years.
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