Someone Please Educate Me on The FCS Dying

[mthoopsfan]

That bottom half will most definatly lose revenue. Give it 5 years and the tv revenue will drop for them and their conferences (or new conferences).

I disagree with you. Many conferences, like the MW, will continue to make good revenue and will increase it. Mainly the schools who have been making really big revenue are going to lose big revenue, as they get left behind and kicked out of the club.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Only 3 big conferences are going to thrive and survive. I don't think the ACC will ultimately be able to hand on at or near the top. Sooner or later, some of their top schools will depart.

Most of the rest of the FBS conferences will do fine and continue along. Yes, those schools kicked out of big boy group will have much less revenue. The non-top part of FBS will form its own playoff system. This will be good for them, and everyone.

I suppose a few total bottom feeder FBS schools will fall by the wayside.

The Pac-12 leaders and presidents have been asleep and incompetent for a dozen years. Arrogant too. When the Big 12 did its big contract, there wasn't enough tv/media money left for a big contact with the Pac-12.

Some good schools are moving to the Big 10, with lesser distributions, or at least initially, I believe. Still very good and more money.

College sports are even more important to many universities now.Taking up a lot of talking time and energy from many university mucky mucks and trustees. Many university presidents are not up to speed in the area, and are mainly focused on academics.

 

[brewskis]

I’m not an expert in this, far from my field. But wouldn’t a lot of these financial issues be solved via the financial influx that you get from joining a conference that benefits from a media deal?

Yes.

But far too many Montanans have the “we’re too little” syndrome and are unwilling to consider the myriad ways programs far smaller than UM’s have fully and successfully funded the move to FBS.

One other thing that I was thinking as well about viewership….isn’t that only half, maybe even less than half on UM? If our viewership number look bad, (which people are quick to say they are even though I’ve never seen the numbers presented)….isn’t that oftentimes likely due to our COMPETITION? Say there’s 100k viewers watching UM vs Butler in a month, and that’s a bad number….wouldn’t that number look a lot better if we were playing anyone with a serious program (I.e. the other program has to draw viewers as well, and our total viewership for the whole year is 50% dependent on the programs we play against )

 

[EverettGriz]

The viewership argument is a complete red herring. I pay it no mind, because it won’t matter if we’re FBS. Trust me, if Montana is playing San Diego State or Boise State on ESPN on a Saturday night, people — many, many millions of people — will watch. Those people don’t need a tie to either program; they just want to watch good football.

What they won’t watch: UM at noco, playing in front of 1172 people. On espn+. With noco students handling the broadcast.

 

[3-7-77]

All the arguments are valid. All the complaining warranted. All the money needed to move up is MISSING from the equation. Where is the money going to come from? Where? Can one person on this board explain to everyone how scholarships and moving up would be funded? Not one, but two Montana teams would have to move up. So now we are looking at 10 million just to start the ball rolling. You have no invite, a state with less than 1 million people and not all are fans of either team. I am counting out of state alums as well into the equation. There aren’t enough fans and there isn’t enough viewership. Some of the FBS schools aren’t going to make it and eventually they will drop back down. Anyone seen what is happening to streaming and viewership across the nation? Guess what? It is declining and the younger demographic isn’t watching 3 hour football games. The situation is fluid and there will be more change with NIL and the portal. I get the frustration. Just not the logic of the move up argument.

Only one flaw in your argument. Montana's population is NOT less than a million.
Montana/Population
1.104 million (2021)


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[griznative24]

All the arguments are valid. All the complaining warranted. All the money needed to move up is MISSING from the equation. Where is the money going to come from? Where? Can one person on this board explain to everyone how scholarships and moving up would be funded? Not one, but two Montana teams would have to move up. So now we are looking at 10 million just to start the ball rolling. You have no invite, a state with less than 1 million people and not all are fans of either team. I am counting out of state alums as well into the equation. There aren’t enough fans and there isn’t enough viewership. Some of the FBS schools aren’t going to make it and eventually they will drop back down. Anyone seen what is happening to streaming and viewership across the nation? Guess what? It is declining and the younger demographic isn’t watching 3 hour football games. The situation is fluid and there will be more change with NIL and the portal. I get the frustration. Just not the logic of the move up argument.

Only one flaw in your argument. Montana's population is NOT less than a million.
Montana/Population
1.104 million (2021)


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As someone with a geography and community planning background, I approve of this correction

 

[3-7-77]

Some good discussions. :thumb:
A couple observations from the discussion:
1) UM, and the BSC, should pay close attention to how these super conferences actually purge those schools who don't make it in football or basketball. Its like an owners manual for your car, tell you who, what, when, where, why, and how.
2) How dare some Universities concentrate on academics. Why on Earth did God create them, other than for football and basketball.
3) If these non-productive schools drop off and out of the bigs, where they gonna go? BSC? I say we just sit back and wait for the inevitable influx, charge a huge amount for entry, and let the cash flow in. My grandparents house, long ago, had a 100 gallon drum which collected the rainfall from the roof, into the gutter and then into the barrel. Same concept, different application.
4) I may be FOS, but as the saying goes, "Seldom wrong, but never in doubt." :lol: