r/CFB • u/Thomallister1291 Oregon Ducks • Alabama Crimson Tide • 21h ago

News [Pete Thamel] Per sources, the amount Fox is expected to get back for the cancellation of the Big Ten title game, which it owns the television rights to, is estimated in the $50 million range annually.

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2111241297298387030
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u/punchuinface55 Nebraska • Northumbria 19h ago

Yes, let's keep mentioning the NCAA, which has nothing to do with any of these decisions, and is literally just a body created by the schools. It's the garsh darn NCAA at it again!!1!1

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u/LessThanCleverName Salad Bowl • Sickos 19h ago edited 19h ago

Seriously, the NCAA can’t hardly do shit anymore. Blame the conferences and the schools.

Edit - now that I think about it, OP is probably using NCAA as a catch-all for college sports, but still, it’s not them doing this. Their responsibility lies entirely in their stubborn inability to adapt to a super obviously changing landscape in college sports and getting caught with no clothes.

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u/StrawberryWaste9040 Iowa State Cyclones 19h ago

Well NCAA is still association of all schools (or conferences), but in reality SEC and Big 10 schools have more influence than other conferences. And rest have to accept the scraps given to them.

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u/LessThanCleverName Salad Bowl • Sickos 18h ago

Yeah, I realized after you were just using the NCAA as a collective term. But it’s pretty much just those two calling the shots at this point.

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u/No-Luck4052 19h ago

It seems like they do little more than come up with the rules, which is what they were originally created for. They’ve gone almost full circle.

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u/one-hour-photo Tennessee • South Carolina 9h ago

the NCAA is the one thing that actually COULD have helped prevent this. our government just hates the shit out of associations, and the NCAA concurrently has sucked at governing.