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Old 07-10-2013, 03:55 PM   #7342
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What I noticed: it gave fans of non-powers a new ploy to denigrate the success and tradition of the blue bloods. It allowed MU and Maryland and Rutgers etc fans to say: "Ha ha KU/Duke/UCONN! Basketball doesn't even matter, see?"



By believing re-alignment was about football games and games only, they believed football held infinite more value than basketball did among the public. And no matter how you tried to explain it was about the SPLIT of the cash flows and not the cash flow itself, they clung to their new baby. Like a newborn's mother clings to her infant.
You are so full of shit it is coming out of your ears. I do not recall a single poster on here stating that basketball does not matter. Just because bball is second to football does not mean bball has no value at all.

And, by the way, just about everyone but you and Hypocritson agrees that football and tv sets was what was driving the re-alignment bus.

The split of the cash flow is irrelevant. Schools retain much more of their football revenues, whereas bball revenues are shared with the NCAA. Hence, most schools want to maximize the amount of revenue that they have complete control over.
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