07-31-2021, 07:24 AM
Nobody is talking about the possibility of a football-only college league that breaks football off from all other sports.
The SEC is trying to have a conference with all sports. I don't think in the long run that is the best model. Ultimately, to profit maximize, you are going to want a football-only league. Perhaps the Big and Pac and ACC plus Notre Dame can form a football-only league that either tells the SEC to come for football only, or leaves it out. The SEC joining a football-only league would certainly blunt any revenue advantage it would have as a traditional conference playing football.
Schools will want the non-football sports in smaller conferences that are less spread out to reduce travel costs. But the SEC going all-in on all sports is forcing all its teams to play each other in all sports they play. Something has to give here. You can have Stanford and Rutgers play a league game in football. It doesn't make any sense to play it as a league game in say women's soccer.
The SEC is trying to have a conference with all sports. I don't think in the long run that is the best model. Ultimately, to profit maximize, you are going to want a football-only league. Perhaps the Big and Pac and ACC plus Notre Dame can form a football-only league that either tells the SEC to come for football only, or leaves it out. The SEC joining a football-only league would certainly blunt any revenue advantage it would have as a traditional conference playing football.
Schools will want the non-football sports in smaller conferences that are less spread out to reduce travel costs. But the SEC going all-in on all sports is forcing all its teams to play each other in all sports they play. Something has to give here. You can have Stanford and Rutgers play a league game in football. It doesn't make any sense to play it as a league game in say women's soccer.