Was SCOTUS win the beginning of the end of regional conferences?
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No pretending to be an amateur sport while having all the bells and whistles of a professional sport is what hurt it.
KevFu
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Yes and no. Losing the case definitely opened the can of worms.
Because schools bundling their TV rights as a conference to sell to TV is what created conference expansion/realignment and the drastic reduction of independents. (You had BASKETBALL independents as late as 1984).
But the case wasn't ever WINNABLE at all. They had no chance of winning the case at all. Their main argument was that Oklahoma and Georgia couldn't prove the were injured by the NCAA's (illegal) actions and therefore shouldn't be allowed to present the case that ruled on their illegal actions.
They should have cut a deal long before the case, that schools "buy" their rights from the NCAA for 50% of the sale price to TV, and that money is distributed between the members; creating revenue sharing for all of Division I and drastically reducing both the significance of conference membership and willingness for schools to jump, because the conferences wold have far better competitive balance and two wouldn't be dominating everyone else.
That would slow it down, but the only way to prevent it would be to establish COMPETITIVE RULES that state conferences MUST play a complete round-robin (or double-round robin) schedule in every sport, not greater than X percent of the schedule. That would effectively cap confrences at 10 members.
Because schools bundling their TV rights as a conference to sell to TV is what created conference expansion/realignment and the drastic reduction of independents. (You had BASKETBALL independents as late as 1984).
But the case wasn't ever WINNABLE at all. They had no chance of winning the case at all. Their main argument was that Oklahoma and Georgia couldn't prove the were injured by the NCAA's (illegal) actions and therefore shouldn't be allowed to present the case that ruled on their illegal actions.
They should have cut a deal long before the case, that schools "buy" their rights from the NCAA for 50% of the sale price to TV, and that money is distributed between the members; creating revenue sharing for all of Division I and drastically reducing both the significance of conference membership and willingness for schools to jump, because the conferences wold have far better competitive balance and two wouldn't be dominating everyone else.
That would slow it down, but the only way to prevent it would be to establish COMPETITIVE RULES that state conferences MUST play a complete round-robin (or double-round robin) schedule in every sport, not greater than X percent of the schedule. That would effectively cap confrences at 10 members.
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