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100%, particularly the last paragraph. The problem is not that other programs in the athletic department aren’t thriving or trending up. The problem is that none of it matters if the football team isn’t one of the big boys. All the shuffling and movement isn’t close to being done. Staying in the Big10+ or whatever it will call itself in 10-15 years is not a given. How happy will everyone be when conference volleyball rivals include Iowa State, Oregon State, Fresno State, Boise State, and several other programs that didn’t have enough juice to make the football cut? This is not about the athletic program as a whole. That’s irrelevant. It’s about football, tv viewers, brand, and “contribution.”
Yeah and greed knows no end game. This is really about 8-10 teams consolidating power, under the cloak of two conferences. Don’t believe, for one minute, that that big boys of the B1G give two farts about Nebraska and the also-rans. Neither do Texas and aTm give a whit about Ole Miss or Tennessee.
There are 8-10 programs that have the means to fund pro teams and compete with the NFL for players; all the rest will be tackling dummies.
Saban said basically this, just a few days ago.
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