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Maybe I’m just becoming incredibly cynical in this portal era, but how long till the prize pot here increases and teams start to opt out of the NCAA Tournament to play in one where they can win money instead?

 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Maybe I’m just becoming incredibly cynical in this portal era, but how long till the prize pot here increases and teams start to opt out of the NCAA Tournament to play in one where they can win money instead?

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I read the other day that teams invited to the NCAA Tournament are required to participate in the NCAA Tournament stemming from Al McGuire opting for the NIT in 1970 due to unfavorable seeding. Now, would that hold up in a court of law? Probably not, which is why the NCAA ended up buying the NIT, but I can absolutely see some middling Power or Mid-Major programs looking to play in this given the direct windfall.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Maybe I’m just becoming incredibly cynical in this portal era, but how long till the prize pot here increases and teams start to opt out of the NCAA Tournament to play in one where they can win money instead?

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Well I’ve got bad news for you lol.

I’d say the NCAA won’t exist much longer. (And neither will the tournament)

I’d give it 5 years tops.

The power conferees will form their own league and it’ll basically operate like semi-pro.

So there will still be a tournament. Might even still be 64 teams. But it’ll just be all the power conference teams in a tournament.

The NCAA tournament is worth $1.5B revenue. Distributed evenly before expenses, that’s $23M per team hypothetically.

It’s gonna happen.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Crazy stuff. But I wouldn’t be shocked if you see more of this in the near future. It’s going to be incredibly expensive for schools to be D1.
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For sure. I was stunned when I heard a guy from on.3 yesterday say that the NIL budget for some top level schools will be in the neighborhood of $10 million this year. Makes it very hard on mid major schools. Heck it makes it hard for some P4 schools.
 
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Delmar said:
For sure. I was stunned when I heard a guy from on.3 yesterday say that the NIL budget for some top level schools will be in the neighborhood of $10 million this year. Makes it very hard on mid major schools. Heck it makes it hard for some P4 schools.
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Yep.

The NCAA Tournament will start to have less & less upsets due to the whole NIL & transfer portal craziness.

The smaller schools won’t simply be able to afford it.
 
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omghulkhands said:
Well I’ve got bad news for you lol.

I’d say the NCAA won’t exist much longer. (And neither will the tournament)

I’d give it 5 years tops.

The power conferees will form their own league and it’ll basically operate like semi-pro.

So there will still be a tournament. Might even still be 64 teams. But it’ll just be all the power conference teams in a tournament.

The NCAA tournament is worth $1.5B revenue. Distributed evenly before expenses, that’s $23M per team hypothetically.

It’s gonna happen.
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yes. couldn't agree more. I suspect it happens first in football, though, where the Big 10 and SEC function kinda like the AFC and NFC in the NFL, two megaconferences, the winners of which play each other for their own natty completely outside the NCAA's purview.
 
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DowntownVol said:
yes. couldn't agree more. I suspect it happens first in football, though, where the Big 10 and SEC function kinda like the AFC and NFC in the NFL, two megaconferences, the winners of which play each other for their own natty completely outside the NCAA's purview.
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That seems incredibly boring to me.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
That seems incredibly boring to me.
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exactly. it will be. and the NCAA tournament or whatever it eventually evolves into as described by Hulkhands will be boring, too. NIL is unquestionably better for the players, but it's gonna be worse for the fans. the current spin is that the overall quality of play will be better since the good teams will have all the good players, but I think one of the things that makes college hoops great is that there's more than 4 or 5 teams who can legit win a natty every season.
 
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Delmar said:
For sure. I was stunned when I heard a guy from on.3 yesterday say that the NIL budget for some top level schools will be in the neighborhood of $10 million this year. Makes it very hard on mid major schools. Heck it makes it hard for some P4 schools.
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Welcome, the likes of Seton Hall and Villanova, to 1920s Lehigh-esque status.
 
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omghulkhands said:
Well I’ve got bad news for you lol.

I’d say the NCAA won’t exist much longer. (And neither will the tournament)

I’d give it 5 years tops.

The power conferees will form their own league and it’ll basically operate like semi-pro.

So there will still be a tournament. Might even still be 64 teams. But it’ll just be all the power conference teams in a tournament.

The NCAA tournament is worth $1.5B revenue. Distributed evenly before expenses, that’s $23M per team hypothetically.

It’s gonna happen.
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May end up being more tournaments to gain potential NIL like Fox's College Basketball Crown. With higher winnings.
I could see that half million NIL prize up to a million + in no time.
You could buy you a couple decent players with that.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
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"“We were looking at it from a student welfare point of view,” he said. “We don't want to be a farm team for larger conferences. We want to attract students who will be here for four years, who we can develop into really fine professionals and into fine athletes. Unfortunately, because of the transfer portal, that environment, sadly, doesn't exist anymore or the way it once did.”

Seems fair
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
"“We were looking at it from a student welfare point of view,” he said. “We don't want to be a farm team for larger conferences. We want to attract students who will be here for four years, who we can develop into really fine professionals and into fine athletes. Unfortunately, because of the transfer portal, that environment, sadly, doesn't exist anymore or the way it once did.”

Seems fair
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Not sure that they've produced a professional basketball player in 50 years. They're a smaller university in an isolated village hardly bigger than the school, I can't imagine the department ever existed for anything other than bragging rights.
 
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