In Reply to: Part 1 posted by mh on July 13, 2024 at 09:41:26
"CASEY JACOBSEN - Former Stanford All-American now a college basketball analyst for Fox Sports
“Five years from now, athletic departments — and the scholarship sports available — at the Division I level that are not in a power conference will shrink by half.
“How could they not? Most college sports don’t make money.
“For decades, football revenue helped pay for other sports and as we clearly move away from that model, those other sports will not have money to survive in their current form.”"
The other thing is that NONE of these folks commented upon how hard most streaming platforms are struggling. Some will survive, but I do think there will be a major drop-off in the TV money for most, if not all, schools. The Super Conference is likely, but in 5 years we're probably still looking at the SEC/B1G doing fine, and everyone else flailing about and we'll probably see some major College Athletic Departments requiring some major bailouts.