I'm positive on the Merger I see it just like I saw the MWC forming and leaving the WAC behind we didn't make huge strides but we made strides and we had a great run and right now outside of the BCS conferences you are just shit out of luck.
If this merger puts fun in football and makes it so teams at least start getting some money back I'm all for it. Unfortunately College Football is like Real world income. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer it's been happening since the BCS came about.
2011 BCS Conferences Revenue.
All told, Division I-A* revenue in 2010-2011 tops $6.2 billion, with the five major football conferences (sorry, Big East) bringing in $4.3 billion of that total.
But before we run down all of the figures, there’s a conference measure that needs to be taken. As these are figures for the 2010 – 2011 “year” (which typically ends June 30, but that’s not universal for all reports), this is a snapshot of that simpler time before radical conference realignment began. In this world, Nebraska was among 12 actual teams in the Big 12, the Big Ten still has the highly logical 11-team lineup, “Pacific” teams were at most one state away from that ocean and the Big East wasn’t a complete joke of a football conference. OK, the Big East was already a complete joke of a football conference in 2010 – 2011, but not like it’s about to be.
Total Revenue By Conference
SEC: $1,066,935,731
Big Ten: $966,799,125
Big 12: $890,308,681
ACC: $753,069,826
Pac-10: $648,928,528
Average Team Revenue By Conference*
SEC: $88,911,311
Big Ten: $87,890,830
Big 12: $74,192,390
Pac-10: $64,892,853
ACC: $62,755,819
It's absurd that there is a group of people put in place to keep that money in specific conferences and yes I do believe that is all the BCS is good for.