This whole thing seems a bit like Socialism...To earn a little bit more money for themselves the University creates the Longhorn Network in order to have some cash that will not have to share with those poorer schools
The Hypocrisy is breath taking. In the UT classroom they push Marxism and Communism as the answer to all of life's problems. When it comes to their money though - every man for themselves: Greed is Good.
Not much communism spoken at the UT Business School.
And all the other schools have their hand out to receive money from the Longhorns.
Socialism would be if the NCAA regulates that all money earned would be distributed equally to all FBS teams. I think you have to look at conferences as corporations and teams as divisions inside the corporation. You pool resources to make your conference more competitive, improve your conference national standing which will in theory increase revenue across the board. Since most conference have some sort of revenue sharing you will notice that there are still alot of haves and have nots, capitalism will always work itself out as long as there is no centralized over bearing governmental entity forcing some sort of feel communal living standards that all AD’s have to abide by.