Question - if the B1G and SEC pick off the top ACC schools
Would that FINALLY get intervention from the feds for antitrust violations, principally Clayton provisions against mergers and acquisitions that are anticompetitive?
The B12 situation was very incremental. The P12 was sudden, but relatively isolated. If the ACC gets picked apart among the three remaining conferences and lesser leagues, how can that be anything other than anticompetitive?
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9mo
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9mo
NAIA to avoid the issue altogether.
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9mo
By they, I assume you mean the P2 schools or some subset of them.
If the product is televised college football games, the issue remains in that they are amassing the wealth of television broadcast revenue with the fewest number of teams. It doesn’t matter if they bolt from the NCAA or not, since the product and the marketplace wouldn’t change.
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9mo
would any media contracts affiliated with its sports (i.e. March Madness, Frozen Four, NCAA DI Football Playoffs, FBS Playoffs, etc) and with it the case the the P2s somehow have a monopoly on the situation.
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HouClone
9mo
On a good note, there are a few lawmakers speaking out and Cody Campbell ads running.
Hopefully, Congress acts before anymore ACC/Big 12 defections. It's already bad for college athletics with 2 conferences having all the advantages.
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