[Treebound]

I hope this all implodes sooner than 5 years, Eric.  The cross country travel toll on the basketball and women's volleyball teams is brutal.  The men's hoops team left on Tuesday morning to fly east.  Tough to take classes when you are back in NC most of the week.    As for the conference media rights hit, I believe Stanford and cal made $5m each from the ACC for the 24/25 fiscal year and another $1.9 from the ncaa (maybe not as much for cal).    That's a big drop from what we were making from the Pac12 - thank you traitor trojans.   $C was also the problem when Texas and Oklahoma wanted to join the Pac.  The current model in this funding (or lack thereof) environment is not sustainable.   Time for Swarbuck and Luck to create the NFL minor league and return the other sports to regional models.    There are others making moves on this front as well.

[Treebound]

I hope this all implodes sooner than 5 years, Eric.  The cross country travel toll on the basketball and women's volleyball teams is brutal.  The men's hoops team left on Tuesday morning to fly east.  Tough to take classes when you are back in NC most of the week.    As for the conference media rights hit, I believe Stanford and cal made $5m each from the ACC for the 24/25 fiscal year and another $1.9 from the ncaa (maybe not as much for cal).    That's a big drop from what we were making from the Pac12 - thank you traitor trojans.   $C was also the problem when Texas and Oklahoma wanted to join the Pac.  The current model in this funding (or lack thereof) environment is not sustainable.   Time for Swarbuck and Luck to create the NFL minor league and return the other sports to regional models.    There are others making moves on this front as well.