enough teams to pull the TV audiences they need. 48 has been my educated guess for a while, I think we end up with two football first conferences and two basketball first conferences to round out the P4. Like John Skipper the former ESPN President that was the mastermind behind all of this and Bob Thompson the Former CEO of Fox Sports, have both said with very few getting the weight of these two saying it, "College Basketball is way underrated!" Both of them said it and it was close by to when the other one said it. Consequently, I don't thing the P2 break off. I do think we expand the tournament to about 96 and the Sweet 16 is going to paid out like the Football Playoff 16 (it's going IMHO from 14-16). Then the earlier rounds will fund Olympic Sports. They don't want to break that off and live on an island. So I think the B12 and the leftover ACC will be basketball first. I keep saying if the Mag 7 leave the ACC. the ACC will survive as a tier 1 basketball (they will grab UConn and San Diego State amongst others and have a good basketball contract), then someone like CBS will pick up their football. I loved Big East football on CBS. So if the worse case happens for VT, and I don't think it will, we will be okay in the ACC which will be better than the old Big East football, and maybe basketball because it will cover the US and have outstanding Academic Institutions. Maybe that should not matter to me, but it does, being in the Big East and ACC helped our Academic profile IMHO. Sorry for the rant!!! ** Edited by Stech at 5/14/2024, 5:45:15 PM