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I think there is a group of fans who exist that literally only watch the major brands play eachother and I think that number is larger than the number of 4th generation families who have gone to Kansas State games since 1957 and are going to refuse to watch out of spite

These groups of fans can coexist in the same world. Why would TV execs want to alienate one of those groups of fans? The casual fan who only cares about big games would still be able to watch their big games as it stands now.

They also won't be watching if those big brands are having shite seasons, which will happen a lot more often as they consolidate into one large umbrella.

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Posted by therick711

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Posted on 8/10/23 at 1:53 pm to VADawg

Broadcasters want and will pay for better matchups. The easy solution that wouldn't create this mess was a combination of the following: everyone to stop scheduling FCS teams, conferences to have more conference games, P5 teams scheduling more OOC p5 games. Since there is so much autonomy among teams and conferences for scheduling and the NCAA is an incompetent clown show (and power brokers reward record over resume time and again), the broadcasters incentivized bringing more brands into fewer leagues.

Ultimately, what everyone wants (and the search for more money) could have been handled by the status quo doing smart things in coordination. Because of a catastrophic failure of vision and leadership, the solution was imposed in a way that laid to waste a lot of individual teams.

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