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guinpen:

--- Quote from: Wick250 on September 18, 2011, 11:17:34 PM ---The reason we are all in uncharted waters is the fact that this is the first time that the very existence of the NCAA as we know it is threatened by the big boys and their television money.  Will they bolt from the NCAA, form those super conferences for all sports, and start to pay their players "stipends?"  Or will they simply wrest concessions from the NCAA but stay within the organization?

My prediction for YSU is that in five years we will still be affiliated with two conferences: football only as a member of a restructured CAA and everything else in the Horizon League, which will have lost Butler but nobody else.  Milwaukee fans are delusional if they think that their institution is attractive to the big boys.

--- End quote ---

I agree that it is only a matter of time before we will see 64 teams 4 16 team leagues, starting their own party. And yes no NCAA means they can pay the players, which means that all the rest of the schools in the country will have a talent drop off.

And yes Milwaukee fans really must be delusional.

ysuindy:
Valpo's AD thinks the Horizon League is solid as is

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/sports/7793291-556/mark-lazerus-horizon-league-content-to-skip-conference-chaos.html

ysuindy:
Quotes from Butler A.D. and Horizon League commissioner

http://blogs.indystar.com/butler/2011/09/23/realignment-butler-waiting-watching/

ysuindy:
Interview with Horizon League commissioner Jon LeCrone

http://www.horizonleague.org/video.html?id=4448

I have not had a chance to listen yet - realignment is a topic that is supposed to be discussed.

ysuindy:
Will conference realignment cause the blood money games to go away?  The Indy Star discusses in a pair of articles from today

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110929/SPORTS0603/109290370/Are-money-games-going-away-?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110929/SPORTS0603/109290369/Ball-State-latest-beneficiary-college-football-money-games-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports

There is a table in the paper that I couldn't find on-line.

Ball State's money games:

2011 Oklahoma $900k
2010  Iowa   $800k
2009 Auburn $800k
2007 Nebraska $725k
2005 Iowa $400k
2005 Auburn $400k

The story discusses Indiana State getting $450k for opening at Penn State.  Kent State got $1.2 million from Alabama, breaking their $425k contract with Purdue, who then paid Middle Tennessee $850k (The $425k they were going to pay Kent plus the $425 Kent paid Purdue).  MTSU made out best in that deal.

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