(01-28-2018 02:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(01-28-2018 08:36 AM)miko33 Wrote:  There was another meeting at Davos that went unnoticed by the sports entertainment media. A group of P5/G5 conference commissioners and select university presidents got together to discuss realignment. They decided that they want the status quo as of now due to the fact that any further movement can (will) destabilize the entire college athletics product - and the markets for this type of entertainment.

Take a look to your left and then to your right. The schools that you are rubbing elbows with will be your running buddies from now on until the next 100 years or so - give or take. If you like your conference, you get to keep your conference...unless your school chooses to quit the conference. However, even quitting may not be in the cards - contracts and all that...

I know this is satire, but he's kind of right in one respect.

The poaching is pretty much done until the new CFP and TV deals come out. You might see a team drop out or down, but you're not going to see mass movement till then.

There probably won't be any G5 teams getting called up to a P5 league in the next couple of years.

He's not pointing to the same old opinion that everyone has that blah, blah, blah once the contracts are open then all hell breaks loose.

What he's saying is the commissioners are worried that if they try to play musical chairs again they might not have a seat.

They go open market with a few more schools in tow and find there is no market. No market because at 18 schools there starts to become questions as to what those bottom 8-10 schools bring to the table.

The B1G and SEC went in on major land grant properties when expanding. Institutions made of the same substance they already had to answer the quality argument.

This is aimed more about going to 16 or 18. It doesn't really point to the B12 getting back to 12 or 14. I think we all know there are some quality pieces for that. Also that doesn't prevent a USC or Florida State from going Independent to strike a better monetary deal for themselves.

Its the P4 which is what is off the table. There needs to be a least 5 power conferences to maintain control. Get too greedy and watch the system collapse.