Re: 80 is feasible assuming the P5s don't end up going the all sports

Eighty P5 schools means that fifteen G5's have been promoted to P5 status. The networks are not going to pay for that. They like getting G5 media rights for peanuts. The top few teams in the Big 12 will remain P5. The others will slide to G5. I recall during the last round of realignment, that ESPN complained that every time schools change conferences, they (ESPN) lose money.
The PAC 12 may add schools, but it's more likely that they will not. Between the SEC and the B1G, one of them will got to sixteen when the Big 12 flops, but the other may remain at fourteen. Unless the added schools are moster programs, the economics may not permit the move.

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Posted: 01/05/2017 at 12:27AM

Greg Sankey says G5 should be careful about playoff idea. -- HOO86 01/02/2017 10:55PM

It is very clear that over the long haul, the G5 conferences -- seekoHoG 01/06/2017 12:32PM

The problem will be solved when the playoffs expand to 8 -- I85Hokie 01/04/2017 12:49PM

The most likely 8 CFP teams is thru 4 CCGs. ** -- East Cobb Hokie 01/04/2017 3:15PM

Only if the power conferences force Notre Dame to join a conference -- VTHokie2000 01/04/2017 5:48PM

ND will either be in the ACC or out of "P" football status long before 2036 -- daveinop 01/04/2017 7:26PM

You are assuming the competition among the power conferences -- VTHokie2000 01/05/2017 09:32AM

I'm only addressing the ND comment. FWIW, the conferences can't dissolve -- daveinop 01/05/2017 3:06PM

If the power conferences decide to break away before the GoRs -- VTHokie2000 01/05/2017 4:15PM

I'm as anti-GoR and pro-loophole kind of guy as you'll find on this board. -- daveinop 01/05/2017 6:12PM

If the ACC doesn't exist anymore, then does the GoR still apply? -- VTHokie2000 01/06/2017 08:47AM

Yes; to whatever extent the GOR references a specific TV contract and the -- daveinop 01/11/2017 9:01PM

Actually you misunderstood my scenario because you appear -- VTHokie2000 01/13/2017 4:34PM

Isn't the entire system already broken and the "bone" the G5s get -- VTHokie2000 01/03/2017 1:57PM

I think it works better right now than it has ever worked. -- HOO86 01/03/2017 5:07PM

Now that college is paying...errr giving student-athletes a stipend -- VTHokie2000 01/04/2017 10:30AM

It could very well work toward separation. -- HOO86 01/04/2017 10:46AM

Something to consider (if there is a formal separation between the groups) -- VTHokie2000 01/04/2017 11:47AM

Possibly. What prevents that is the competition between ESPN and Fox. -- HOO86 01/04/2017 2:24PM

80 is feasible assuming the P5s don't end up going the all sports -- VTHokie2000 01/04/2017 5:42PM

Re: 80 is feasible assuming the P5s don't end up going the all sports -- 33laszlo99 01/05/2017 12:27AM

Remember I do say it is contingent on a couple of things. -- VTHokie2000 01/05/2017 09:40AM

Re: 80 is feasible assuming the P5s don't end up going the all sports

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