And they would be committing suicide. P2 wouldn’t survive long if it was just a 30 something team league of college players getting paid like professionals. Want to know why? Because there is already a 30 something team league of players getting paid like professionals and those professionals are a lot better. P2 would be like the XFL to the NFL.
The fun of college sports is that there are literally hundreds of teams, and even if you go to a tiny school like Gonzaga or St John’s school for the blind, there is a chance of beating the blue bloods and even win a championship in a major sport like basketball. If all the non P2 schools got together and agreed to freeze out the P2 from ALL sports and make their own non P2 association with every other team in the ncaa, they would actually have some leverage in talks with the P2 and the networks on the football contracts. But the non P2 are all content with being speed bumps to the P2 as long as the tv money keeps coming in.
Imagine if tomorrow Philips announced that the ACC has consulted with the Big12 , and G5, and they have all collectively agreed that the playoff committee did not honor its commitment to treat the non P2 schools fairly, so they are withdrawing from the playoffs and will be hosting their own playoff streamed on Netflix and Amazon (thanks Miami native Jeff Bezos for getting it all set up in time !) . First- it would break the internet and guarantee it would be a tsunami across the college sports landscape. Second, it would call out the committee for what it is- a Trojan horse designed to stuff the playoffs with P2 teams, and permanently destroy its credibility.
Instead Phillips will write some pathetic letter and shrug his shoulders as his two most storied teams get buttf#cked by a playoff committee in consecutive years.
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