We all keep waiting for the pieces to fall into place so that we can know what the new world of college football will look like, finally. We want the SEC and Big 10 to get on with it and poach all they want to poach.
The problem is Sankey and Petitti will not play ball so that the “big picture” can come into focus. They don’t have to. Sankey can add two coveted pieces like Oklahoma and Texas, let them play a few years, let revenues grow in ways school shares are not diminished, and then if he sees more value out there he will add a team or two again. He could care less about other conferences. He could care less about the good of the game. To schools like Clemson and FSU he can piously, say, “You don’t call us. We will call you, maybe, and only when and if we are good and ready.” Petitti is in pretty much the same place,
Once college ADs and Presidents allowed their greed to allow conferences who can offer huge media payouts to have more power than the collective NCAA schools themselves, the train left the station and it is not slowing down. The SEC and Big 10 are in the position of being in total control over college football. They only have to listen to the media moguls who cut their checks. They will add who they want, when they want, how many they want, and when they want. Period. This is going to be a long and torturous process.
The ACC and Big 12 need to decide once and for all if they want to be distinct and separate conferences and respect one another’s autonomy or if they want to merge and hope they can have a somewhat comparable position as the SEC and Big 10. Trying to do to each other what the two big boys do to them is rather pathetic, a consolation contest.
