eyekwah
Well-Known Member
There are not lot of pragmatist these days. Pragmatist: One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
A lot of mud is going to be thrown at the wall while this revenue sharing gets sorted out. How much sticks and is adopted is unclear. In observing the participants you can see every negative form of behavior because the money incentives are too great to be ignored. Right now there are not clear goals. If one of the goals is financial equity among conferences and colleges it isn't going to fly. Witness the animosity that broke up the Big XII. When one of your own conference members can't agree on how much of the pie they deserve it is a recipe for failure.
I'm not sure you can get the 4 conferences to sit down and write a Nicene Creed for College sports. Finding a person to accomplish that would be challenging. At this point you really need an agreement for the parties involved to accept an arbitrator to establish the framework for revenue sharing. If congress legislated it to NLRB appointed arbitrator you most likely would get something done.
A lot of mud is going to be thrown at the wall while this revenue sharing gets sorted out. How much sticks and is adopted is unclear. In observing the participants you can see every negative form of behavior because the money incentives are too great to be ignored. Right now there are not clear goals. If one of the goals is financial equity among conferences and colleges it isn't going to fly. Witness the animosity that broke up the Big XII. When one of your own conference members can't agree on how much of the pie they deserve it is a recipe for failure.
I'm not sure you can get the 4 conferences to sit down and write a Nicene Creed for College sports. Finding a person to accomplish that would be challenging. At this point you really need an agreement for the parties involved to accept an arbitrator to establish the framework for revenue sharing. If congress legislated it to NLRB appointed arbitrator you most likely would get something done.