The profits are in consolidating the market, pay the schools with ratings a higher number, and have another division for schools with lesser ratings, and pay them less or let another network have them. You do it by taking the football first schools from the ACC and B12 and break off football, but if they go to a P1 like Saban/ESPN is talking about, then I think ESPN wants it all. I think some B1G schools won’t make it if that happens, and maybe even some SEC schools. However, what is throwing them off is how schools like Indiana, Vandy and UVA are now a player because they are using the portal to build teams fast. Just think if I said 3 years ago that the SEC would miss the National Championship game for the next 3 years. What if I said undefeated Indiana will be playing for the National Championship as a favorite, what if I said Vandy will beat Bama, what if I said UVA will miss the playoff in overtime of the ACC championship, what if I said Miami won’t make the ACC championship game but the conference is so deep they are playing for a National Championship? These things are mind boggling in just a couple of years. They are mind boggling for me to type. A year ago the SEC and B1G commissioners were seen together at games, known to be meeting on their own, and now they’re being talked about being divorced. A year ago people missed the MOU with ND, now many Commissioners, especially the B1G are very much against it. It’s crazy how fast attitudes are changing over things. However,it’s the old line from All the Presidents Men, follow the money (and power to get the money) and it comes from the networks and more specifically the Wall Street analysts that are telling them what to do to make their stock rise. Anybody got a 🔮 for what’s next? 🤣