If the blue bloods left for a "super league", who would be hurt more, them or the also-rans like us?

[swede2]

My point is a conference with those "Top 30/40" will quickly become only 5-7 top teams. With each game played, one team loses. It will quickly settle back to the mean where there's are a handful of consistent top teams, a handful of consistent bottom teams, and a big middle where a majority will have annual win totals in the 5 to 8 range. In the P4, roughly half the teams in each conference have winning records. In the NFL, less than half the teams end up with winning records.

Each of the top brands believes they can and should be competitive no matter what. So what if someone has a losing season? The admins won't care with the revenue the league would generate for the school.

I would imagine that, freed from the yoke of the rest of the welfare queen FBS, the top schools would and could create an NFL style equity that ensures more parity.

 

[50PoundHead]

My point is a conference with those "Top 30/40" will quickly become only 5-7 top teams. With each game played, one team loses. It will quickly settle back to the mean where there's are a handful of consistent top teams, a handful of consistent bottom teams, and a big middle where a majority will have annual win totals in the 5 to 8 range. In the P4, roughly half the teams in each conference have winning records. In the NFL, less than half the teams end up with winning records.

I think there would be a lot more parity. Going back to one of my points in an earlier post, teams in a higher-tiered league would absolutely recruit the heck the best players in the lesser league and if the portal applies to the higher-tiered league, you will see players leaving programs for more playing time. I don't think it's been mentioned, but I think the rosters in the lesser league would be decimated year-after-year to a much greater extent than they are currently.

Splitting the competitive tiers would be an experiment and there's no guarantee an experiment will work, but that doesn't mean a group of knuckleheads that command a lot of sway within the jockocracy won't want to try it.