WAC-16 was ahead of it's time

[Cornpoke]

These new "super conferences" should look at the WAC16 as an example of what can go wrong and will probably eventually happen to them as well. You have bottom feeders who will never have a chance to compete and the teams that do dominate will become greedy and wonder why they are sharing revenue with the bottom feeders.

I know the NCAA says they cannot do anything about it but it's time they overstep what boundaries and rules that were setup to keep them from having any control. If I'm the NCAA president, I'd be embarrassed by what's going on.

 

[alyssa]

Weeks ago Mark Cuban pointed out in his blog about how the superconferences are likely to fail. It's similar to what you said. His blog was on a message board but it could probably be found on his site too.

The NCAA lost a lot of power due to the Supreme Court decisions (maybe 20 or so years ago) that said something like that the NCAA didn't have the power to control a program's (or conference's??) tv contract.
It said something like the school had the right to make it's own tv contract deals etc.
I believe that shortly after that is when Notre Dame made a tv deal with NBC.
Anyway, many say that what is going on today with this superconference stuff has roots in what happened all those years ago with a Supreme Court decision.

If any of you are lawyers you could probably check that pretty quickly as to how it is exactly stated etc.

 

[Wyokie]

Weeks ago Mark Cuban pointed out in his blog about how the superconferences are likely to fail. It's similar to what you said. His blog was on a message board but it could probably be found on his site too.

The NCAA lost a lot of power due to the Supreme Court decisions (maybe 20 or so years ago) that said something like that the NCAA didn't have the power to control a program's (or conference's??) tv contract.
It said something like the school had the right to make it's own tv contract deals etc.
I believe that shortly after that is when Notre Dame made a tv deal with NBC.
Anyway, many say that what is going on today with this superconference stuff has roots in what happened all those years ago with a Supreme Court decision.

If any of you are lawyers you could probably check that pretty quickly as to how it is exactly stated etc.

Oklahoma and Georgia both sued the NCAA in the late '80s over T.V. rights.....so blame the frinkin Sooners!

 

[cheypoke]

I've wondered the same thing about whether these super conferences will last. You end up not always playing teams you played before, and playing teams you dont have much connection to. Then there will certainly be the issue of who is earning their keep, etc. I give these conferences a couple years and they will start coming apart again.