Nah... the BEast is fine, just as it is...for now.
Folks just want to see some movement for movements' sake...'proof of life'.
Leave all those darlin' midmajors alone. Let the B12 do whatever it must to try and survive. Enjoy the show!
Me? Ol' git? I'll just continue to eat popcorn and sip on the Blue juice. It's a good show and potentially getting
better. "One never knows what the tide will bring." F3 Alliances, B12 expansion, B1G/ACC standing pat? This round
is just getting started... more popcorn please.
3manweave? Hrumpf. However they did use the DoE's data, so there's that.
Back in the day, my boy Kyle Whelliston (the MidMajority.com website, circa 2005-2014) established the metric for determining the line of demarcation between the Big Boys and the Mids.
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The Red Line' (2008) was at that time, the cutoff between the two. The Red Line was an Athletic Budget of $20 Million minimum/$2 Million minimum on basketball/school/year.
That was 13 years ago. There were outlier leagues/teams back then: Leagues A-10 & MVC; Teams: Zags, Xavier, VCU.
Kyle Whelliston, publisher of the Web site midmajority.com, has developed the Red Line Theory for identifying who gets classified as a mid-major. Whelliston this winter researched the annual athletic budget for each Division I basketball school and averaged the figures by conference. He then ranked the conferences in descending order and drew a "red line" separating the leagues with a greater than $20 million average from the pack.
Eight leagues landed above the line -- the six conferences that compose the Bowl Championship Series in football, and the Mountain West and Conference USA, which Whelliston calls "money leagues."
There are outlier leagues/teams today. Money was the major denominator then and still is today.
Looking at the current DoE data it appears the Red Line has suffered from contract creep as well and it appears the current cutoff is $9 Million for basketball per league average and $6 Million basketball per school average.
The only thing that has significantly changed is in the growth of the amounts of money we are talking today. If they (3mw) took a look at overall athletic budgets in the DoE data, they will find a correlating demarcation line there
as well. It's about money, not rocket science.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os ... story.htmlhttp://m.espn.com/ncb/notebook?id=10349 ... esktop&wjbhttps://www.bannersontheparkway.com/201 ... jor-status https://www.hoopville.com/2010/03/16/wh ... cketmania/http://rushthecourt.net/tag/kyle-whelliston/ Read #3 on the Big East...lol
http://belmontvision.com/2010/03/show-me-the-money/