This seems like a clear eyed take. Over time schools like Alabama won't be subsidizing Vandy. OSU won't be subsidizing Northwestern. And FSU and Clemson won't be subsidizing Duke and Wake. Our asset is a blue blood basketball program. If market forces have their way, our football team will eventually be bc a casualty of big money college sports.
Here's the net net from my limited vantage point.
Well, if football is unlaced from the rest of sports, Duke would absolutely take a huge hit. Basketball being woven into the conference fabric is the only reason we're still in a top conference.
Dukes problem is kind of the ACC's on the whole too. Duke hoops is a premium "boutique" brand but it is vulnerable to a few bad years in a row of fading away.....and the "numbers" cannot save Duke. The ACC's brand is fading too in hoops a bit. I was thinking last night...the person who never got his value FROM Duke was Christian Laettner. How much of Duke's brand is tied to 91-92 and specifically to the Kentucky game? No way to ever measure this, because we can't go back and see where Duke is without "the shot" (and who would want to?)....but Laettner is so key to the reason Duke is Duke. Others too but him head and shoulders above others. Today's NIL money for Duke hoops is due to him in a lot of ways, and K of course and the others....My problem with NIL is that the only reason I care about today's players are YESTERDAYS players....but it is what it is.
They have, they will, and you will, along with others. Five minutes ago the beast was over fed. Now we are being begged to feed it more. That irony will sink in. And before people walk away, they will start to care less, and the caring is the key to the magic of college sports. Gambling viewers and the "new car smell" of all the newness of NIL and re-alignment will hide the iceberg for a few years....but the GAF is gone and I think the ice berg's damage is far greater than anyone seems to know at this point. Then the golden goose (sorry for mixing metaphors) will be at least diseased.
I 100% dig the titanic metaphor buffet.
Well, if you mean Duke football would take a hit, I suppose that’s true. But I think it would only mean that Duke’s in a second tier football conference. Like they are today already.
Here's a theory: The SEC and the Big Ten are driving this bus, and they look at dominating FB and NIL revenues as the way for them to dominate mens BB too.
Yeah, even if football was formally out of the NCAA equation, any athletic department raking in big bucks from a hypothetical independent football league would still have a leg up across the board, presumably. Just like if Bill Gates and I were bidding on the same house, he'd have a big advantage over me there even though I don't compete with him on developing software.
Everybody in the Big Ten and the SEC, as it appears now, will have plenty of money to run their FB program and have plenty left over to swamp other conferences' teams in basketball too. And these leagues will make huge money in basketball too. They already do, and as they gain dominance, that will only increase.
Shocking that there are basketball fans on the Duke Basketball Report.
It really would be welcomed by many if you would stop insulting posters here, and the focus of the board, because they do not fit your view of what it means to be a “true” Duke fan or that football “should” be everyone’s main focus.
If Duke was always D3, it would be a fair solution in my view. But taking away the opportunity for students to compete at the highest level (men’s and women’s) and just leave one protected group is a bad look
I don’t see why it matters if we were always D3. The landscape of college football has changed dramatically, and to me it seems it is no longer compatible with the mission of Duke as a premier academic institution. Which is exactly what the University of Chicago decided after over 40 years of playing in the Big 10.
