Why don't the Group of Five bring an anti-trust suit against the Power 5 Conferences and the CFP?
Found this discussion on "reddit/cfb" interesting with respect to the hegemonic financial dominance of the P5 over the G5.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7o...antitrust/
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Also this article in the 9/25/2019 issue of Sports Illustrated:
As Group of Five Continues to Rack Up Power 5 Wins, Will CFP Opportunity Ever Arise?
https://www.si.com/college-football/2019...-state-ucf
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Florida
u/bob237189
1 year ago
Why don't the Group of Five bring an anti-trust suit against the Power 5 Conferences and the CFP?
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I'm not an expert, but from what I know and what I see, the power conferences have been acting as a cartel since at least the founding of the Bowl Coalition. For 25 years now, they've worked with each other to ensure their mutual prosperity to the exclusion of the mid-major conferences.
So the question is clear: why don't the G5 sue to force the P5 to expand the franchise?
1 year ago
Alabama • Michigan State
duff101
23 points ·
1 year ago
Well technically the P5 is a group of entities, so in order to "sue the P5" you would have to sue all 5 major conferences.
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UCLA • Pac-12
Slpry_Pete
11 points ·
1 year ago
The G5 conferences exist and serve at the pleasure of the individual school AD's and school presidents. The goal of many of those schools is to become a member of a P5 conference. The schools won't allow the conferences to burn bridges.
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jbowen1
3 points ·
1 year ago
The attorney general tried but dropped it after he couldn't get anywhere in 3 years.
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UCF
yesacabbagez
1 point ·
1 year ago
The G5 won't sue because the P5 won't include them in the playoff, they would just sever the G5 and P5 entirely. At that point the G5 makes less money. Basically the relationship works to the benefit of both in different ways. The P5 get the most out of it, but they are also historically the most important actors in the industry. The G5 gets a bunch of people who can prop up their TV rights money and occasionally pay them to get their ass beat.
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Rose Bowl • Fresno State
Cobra-Serpentress
1 point ·
1 year ago
Short Answer: Money. Right now the G5 still gets a hefty paycheck for playing regular season games vs. the P5. Not to mention Bowl sharing cash and part of the National TV exposure.
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Florida • Florida Cup
ExternalTangents
10 points ·
1 year ago
Just call it "NCAA Super Premier A-Number-One Best In The World Division" and see if anybody cares about the dumb old FBS championship anymore.
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Florida State
Limebull
1 point ·
1 year ago
Give it some time, but I would imagine the suit would be against the committee rather than a media term.
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Georgia • /r/CFB Poll Veteran
tmart12
10 points ·
1 year ago
the suit would be against the committee
How would it be against the committee? Because of the results of their voting?
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[deleted]
0 points ·
1 year ago
Pennsylvania
tennvols93
-2 points ·
1 year ago
So, here's what I think:
The G5 (and smaller schools generally) should threaten to leave the NCAA. You might think, "what would the NCAA care, they're a creature of the P5," but that would be an oversimplication. The NCAA, along with being an organizational committee is also involved with merchandising and media. When the NCAA was formed, the percentage of people who graduated from flagship state schools would have been significantly higher than it is now. The growth of secondary campuses is a recent phenomenon with the increased importance of a degree. Keep in mind that the ONLY real satellite campus in the entire P5 is UCLA. With the growth of these campuses, the vast majority of people probably attended a satellite campus. Right now, the NCAA benefits far more from mid-majors and small schools than they do from the NCAA, and that leverage needs to be exerted.
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