College Football Enquirer co-hosts Ross Dellenger, Andy Staples and Steven Godfrey examine the real reasoning behind the the potential expansion of the NCAA basketball tournament. Check out the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Great story today from Ross Dellinger about the NCAA basketball tournament, the proposed enlarging of said tournament, which by God does not need to happen.
It’s already four teams too big.
Please don’t do it, but they’re gonna probably do it.
Why are they probably gonna do it, Ross?
Yeah.
to appease the almighty power conferences, right?
To give them more access, which is the same thing we’ve seen happen, with the college football playoff and honestly so many other things in college athletics, like the NCAA governance model and weighted voting, right?
To give the power conferences more authority, more access, and yes, eventually more money.
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and, and another part of my story is not just about expansion, but what happens in six years when z- when the NCAA tournament’s contract expires with, with CBS and WBE.
I am so glad you took us there, Ross.
I am so glad.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Because 2031, that is when the NCAA tournament contract expires.
Ross, what other contracts expire in, oh, I don’t know, 2030?
2031?
Yeah.
2032?
Lots of- 2033?
That’s a bi- busy time between- 2029 and 2032.
You’ve got the Big 12 TV contract.
You’ve got the Big Ten TV contract.
Mm-hmm.
You got the SEC renegotiation window at ESPN.
You got the- Mm-hmm ACC’s exit fees dropping below $100 million- Mm-hmm for a school.
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Wait, there’s one more.
And then, and you’ve got the expiration of the college football playoff, contract as well in 2032.
Oh, there we go.
So, uh- It’s all moving to Tubi that’s a pretty big span.
What if Oh, boy.
Spitballing here, Ross.
Here, here we go.
Uh-oh.
What if there were several leagues that got together?
I don’t know, maybe they got some congresspeople to change a certain law that was passed in 1960.
What if they got together and sold, I don’t know, the college football and basketball regular seasons, the college football playoff, and the NCAA tournaments, men and women, all together as one thing to whoever would bid the highest on it?
It’d be pretty valuable.