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How soon do you think split happens?

Hard to say when this will happen, but it does seem more inevitable than ever.

Building value for the second tier will be difficult, but not impossible. It will take organization and strong leadership to pull it off. University presidents and athletic directors hopefully are already working on a contingency plan for if/when this takes place.

Unfortunately, most of the schools in the second tier are either located in a state with at least one first tier school or are located in a rural/less populated state. That makes it hard to get eyeballs on the second tier games and that means less money coming into the second tier schools.

Maybe the second tier schools shift their season to the spring so they aren't in direct competition with the first tier schools for viewers? I'm not sure what the answer is, but big changes are likely ahead.
 
Hard to say when this will happen, but it does seem more inevitable than ever.

Building value for the second tier will be difficult, but not impossible. It will take organization and strong leadership to pull it off. University presidents and athletic directors hopefully are already working on a contingency plan for if/when this takes place.

Unfortunately, most of the schools in the second tier are either located in a state with at least one first tier school or are located in a rural/less populated state. That makes it hard to get eyeballs on the second tier games and that means less money coming into the second tier schools.

Maybe the second tier schools shift their season to the spring so they aren't in direct competition with the first tier schools for viewers? I'm not sure what the answer is, but big changes are likely ahead.
I wonder if we'll see some jump from FCS to whatever the new tier 2 is and there is a reorganization of conferences based more on geography rather than markets.

The elephant in the room is how the revenue sharing thing works out. Will it be based on gross or net? Perhaps we won't want media money so that we don't have to worry about the revenue share (i.e. the revenue share will lose more money than not having a media deal).

In all honesty, if the media money, nil, etc. dries up for tier 2, it will help us more than hurt us in terms of ability to compete.
 
It'll be interesting to see where the dividing line will be. Does Vanderbilt actually have any fans? I'd assume almost all of Tennessee roots for the Vols. Since they've lived so long in the SEC, I'm guessing their pledge of money to football will keep them in the top tier as they have the means for Salary/Budget Floor for Tier 1. It'd be cool to have a relegation system but that won't happen with our current Conference setup. Just rename tier one to something else and tier 2 will be made up of a lot of FCS schools. No more non conf games planned years in advance etc. It'll be year to year schedule so that teams can move up. Can't have a relegation system if 3/4 of the schedule is locked in before each season
 
It'll be interesting to see where the dividing line will be. Does Vanderbilt actually have any fans? I'd assume almost all of Tennessee roots for the Vols. Since they've lived so long in the SEC, I'm guessing their pledge of money to football will keep them in the top tier as they have the means for Salary/Budget Floor for Tier 1. It'd be cool to have a relegation system but that won't happen with our current Conference setup. Just rename tier one to something else and tier 2 will be made up of a lot of FCS schools. No more non conf games planned years in advance etc. It'll be year to year schedule so that teams can move up. Can't have a relegation system if 3/4 of the schedule is locked in before each season
In my opinion, a promotion/relegation system would be awesome and the best case scenario for lower tier teams. The average college football fan might be a little skeptical, but anyone who follows international soccer knows the benefits that a promotion/relegation system brings.

For one, hope springs eternal for the lower tier teams. Players and coaches know they can go play with the big boys on primetime television if they just prove how good they are on the field.That is a huge motivating factor. Fans and donors also feel like their contributions matter - like they are actually building towards something better.

Secondly, it makes every game matter more. How many fair weather fans have usually tuned out following a disappointing 3-7 start to the season? Probably most of them. More fans will care when they know the results of the last 2 games may just dictate whether their team is relegated down to the second tier or are allowed to stay up.

Unfortunately, promotion/relegation has about a 0.0000001% of happening. No way the tier one schools would ever allow it to happen. The only way we would ever get that is if we had a very powerful college football governing body that essentially forced it onto their members...and the NCAA definitely is not that.
 
In my opinion, a promotion/relegation system would be awesome and the best case scenario for lower tier teams. The average college football fan might be a little skeptical, but anyone who follows international soccer knows the benefits that a promotion/relegation system brings.

For one, hope springs eternal for the lower tier teams. Players and coaches know they can go play with the big boys on primetime television if they just prove how good they are on the field.That is a huge motivating factor. Fans and donors also feel like their contributions matter - like they are actually building towards something better.

Secondly, it makes every game matter more. How many fair weather fans have usually tuned out following a disappointing 3-7 start to the season? Probably most of them. More fans will care when they know the results of the last 2 games may just dictate whether their team is relegated down to the second tier or are allowed to stay up.

Unfortunately, promotion/relegation has about a 0.0000001% of happening. No way the tier one schools would ever allow it to happen. The only way we would ever get that is if we had a very powerful college football governing body that essentially forced it onto their members...and the NCAA definitely is not that.
The games determining who's relegated are almost as entertaining as the championship.
 
The games determining who's relegated are almost as entertaining as the championship.
It'd be neat but this will be about governance and revenue sharing. The bottom of tier 1 will likely struggle with both much less tier 2.

The question above about more teams being kicked to tier 2 is a good one.

They need to do this for football only and put the conferences back together for everything else.
 

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