How will college football's 'Super League' evolve?
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Everybody is in a sort of fear of being left behind, and it's been like three to five years of this, and everybody is just sort of obsessed with this sort of split, and we're always wondering, right, like when will this happen?
And I think most people would point to right, the 2030 to 2032 span where you have the Big 12 Big Ten, CFP, and NCAA basketball tournaments, contracts all come up If anything, the Super League would coalesce around the wealthiest schools saying hey, let's all be together.
And these guys aren't with us.
Yes.
The day doesn't come where we kill Vanderbilt in the night to bring in Ohio State.
What happens is we stop thinking as a sport about regionality as identity and so that sounds fancy, but what I'm actually saying is one day the world is going to change in college football when Alabama wakes up one morning and says I have more in common with Ohio State.
than I do with Mississippi State or Auburn or South Carolina and that's it, that's how it happens.
The reality of this story to bring it back to Virginia Tech is not everybody is gonna make it.
And so there should be, there should be anxiety if you're Purdue or South Carolina yeah, there should be anxiety, but the anxiety that I'm trying to insert in you is what Virginia Tech is feeling right now.
It's what the Big 12 it's what Oklahoma State is feeling right now.
They just got left right?
They won't be the last ones.
Greg Sankey's remit is not to be the best person possible for college football.
That's not his job.
His job is to advance his group's agenda to its best possible point.
This is why, because we don't have centralized governing in this sport, it's only ever going to be the success of individual groups inside of it.
No one is ever going to sit down and go, hey guys, what's the best thing for this sport?
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