From Matt Brown. The gap between P4 and G6 has never been larger. 70% of G6 all conference players transfer.
Minor league baseball is beloved and has its niche.
I am always unsure about these kinds of articles. I know Indiana upset the apple cart, but CFB has always been about a select few programs and the rest are fodder.
Difference is that MLB doesn’t actively collude against minor league BB. I’m sure the G6 would love equal access to the revenue streams that the NCAA prevents them from getting at
P4 can’t kick out a G6 team, but they’ve done a bang up job of keeping them out of lucrative bowl games and the playoffs
Yeah, the power conferences figured out that they can have their cake and eat it by giving token access to G5/6 after Hoovering all of the major programs for themselves.
Imo the status quo will prevail. Guaranteeing a single G6 bid to the playoffs isn’t a big deal for them and prevents antitrust issues. The G6 won’t drive much more fan interest or money on a kid’s table playoff, so we’ll take what we’ve got. Best we can hope is for the PCSA to stem the issues with an unlimited transfer portal.
The notion that antitrust law (something this country barely enforces anymore even when applicable) will come to the rescue of the G6 and level a table that hasn’t been level in over a century has always been fool’s gold.
The reality is that the G6 is free to break off on their own any time they want. The reason they don’t is simply that they’ve calculated that the current arrangement is worth more than their product would be on its own.
Having a product that far fewer people want and that hasn’t been invested in at comparable levels to the competition pretty much from the beginning isn’t an antitrust issue.
Why wouldn’t there be an antitrust issue? There are more G6 schools than P4 and they have less access to the revenue. They been systematically prevented from
Investing in their programs
Great. I’m going to start a web search company and demand “access” to Google’s revenue.
If you were a part of google’s organization and eligible for that revenue than yes, I’d assume you’d want fair access
But the organization isn’t the NCAA in this case. It’s the conference, no?
What happened when MLB replace Minor League Baseball with the Player Development system actually contradicts one of the points in the Matt Brown article. Since that happened there has been the most franchise stability that they have ever seen, mostly because instead of two year affiliate deals they now have 10 year development licenses with the MLB club.
Would it be better for everyone if the 68 P4 schools just cut a $2-3 million dollar check to one of the P6 schools under a development agreement and do away with the buy game system?
So everyone at Google gets paid the same regardless of their value and contributions?
Getting pretty close to, “from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs” here.
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So you really don’t think that for the last 30 or 40 years, the majority of the NCAA football schools have been prevented from accessing the revenue bowls at the rest of the schools have gotten?
What’s prevented G6 from accessing that revenue is the market demand for their product. Take a look at last year’s playoff. Even though overall viewers were up for all the games, the numbers for the first round were down 7% Why? Two G6 schools versus none the previous year. The two games with the G6 schools drew roughly half the other two games’ viewers.
The G6 conferences and schools know this. That’s why they accept what the CFP and bowls offer rather than break off and market their own playoff (something I’m in favor of, btw).
I don’t disagree with that statement. However, that is a result of not having access to the same money for the last several decades that the P4 schools have had. I’m not saying that we’d have 50 Ohio States, but these schools would be in a better footing if they weren’t relegated to the Cheez-It bowl or whatever bowl or even no post season games
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