(01-28-2018 01:20 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  It was interesting what Dantonio said about how broadcasters are no longer willing to pay conferences for content and that the schools/leagues have to pay production costs themselves. I wonder how many leagues outsid the P5, Big East, and AAC this will affect.

Yeah, it's the price of synergy, and broadcasters' stakes in major conferences. They're invested in the conference, and can keep resources and infrastructure there to air and produce content.

I miss the old way. I said it in another thread...you could follow the pulse of a season better this way. There was also the incentive for additional games on the schedule, kinda like the bracket-busters thing, where you could have impromptu games and know somebody would air it.

And CAA was hit hard in a lot of ways. I think Davidson skipping by them and the conference getting only Elon and a Charleston program that has a ton of potential, but delivering little since success almost twenty years ago. These were the replacements to the VCU's, GMU's, GSU's, and ODU's...you can't fool anyone that the two pick-up's were equal trades or upgrades for anything.