ESPN’s Jay Bilas Talks Pac-12 Defections, Conference Realignment, More w Rich Eisen | Full Interview 

Bilas has always been of my favorites Sports Personality’s.

Jay Bilas letting it all out.

Excellent Objective Perspective! Jay got a Law Degree it’s all about contracts

Speaking the truth! Thank you Blias

If I was the PAC I would make a coast 2 coast conference called PAM "Pacific Atlantic Mountain" & have Oregon State, Stanford, Wazzu, California, San Diego, Fresno, Boise, Utah State, Wyoming, Air Force, Army, NAVY, Colorado, SMU, Tulane, Memphis, UCON, USF.

That analogy of Costco was so horrible lmao

Big 12 basketball is unreal after these moves

It’s hypocrisy Coaches leave for money players now get paid to attend Colleges and get PAID !

Also, Northwestern University was named the way it is due to that area being considered the northwest territory at the time. the US did not always go from coast to coast.

College Athletics is professional

Very knowledgeable. Jay Billas hit every nail in the coffin.

Travel? How much travel do you think players did in the 1940s where everything was done by train or bus? How long is a train ride from LA to Seattle or Columbus to Minneapolis?

Jay Bilas is the best!!!

Notre Dame has been traveling to the East Coast, West Coast, and Midwest for decades. This year they're flying to Ireland, two separate flights to North Carolina, a flight to South Carolina, and all the way out to Palo Alto, California. None of this traveling stuff is new.

College football and to a lesser extent basketball are the minor leagues for their professional leagues. The media rights deals and the big conferences exist to keep those programs profitable. Realignment is a foreseeable consequence of NIL and certain college sports becoming more and more like a farm system for the NFL and NBA.

I remember when there was a SWAC, essentially a conference with Oklahoma and Texas.

If college athletes get paid then they have to remove title IX so they can shut down all the money losing sports including all women’s sports

Good interview, but I disagree with Jay's perspective.

It’s inevitable College Sports program will diminish ( Lower Sports) will cease to exist

But yeah I hear you Jay, BE HONEST with yourselves & admit it’s a direct money decision!

I agree with much of what he says here but the drastically increased travel costs for Olympic sports will lead to cuts being made to those programs. Its simple math,

Those schools that lost or are left behind will withdraw in numbers. How much debt does each University have? It's being run like the government.

Thankfully, ESPN didn’t layoff Bilas.

This is a completely idiotic take. I don’t know if Bilas is this ignorant, or whether he has an agenda abut which he is not being honest. Where does the money go? It goes to supporting ALL THE OTHER SPORTS at the successful schools. It supports the Olympic sports and the non-revenue sports, including the women’s sports teams. You want it to go pro and pay the athletes? I’m ok with that. BUT THEN REPEAL Title IX, and be prepared to not have many Olympic sports teams. Have Jay Bilas, Genius, explain how THAT is going to work!

Press rewind and listen to Jay and Rich crying all the way to the bank.

I agree with Jay, but it still sucks that everything is about money. I'm getting into soccer because of the limited commercial breaks. I hate sitting in a football stadium waiting for TV time outs to end. High School sports are the way to go...

Title 9 started the rush for additional sports

Jay Bilas is a realist

J Bilas speaking but thing but truth

I want to know why when u got these major football universities like Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, etc tuition isn't free to at least the in-state students. Those universities make HUGE money...where does the money go??

Educationally It is fine for some students and not fine for other students.

Jay 😎💪

Jay crushed this segment.

Swimming 🏊🏻‍♂️ is an integral sport it’s Anatomy y Physiology..it’s the best healthy regimen for life !

It’s not fine to use student athletes to put profits over students.

Time to drop title 9

So are all universities essentially private now? Is that what Bilas is saying? What is a public university exactly? Will the death of public universities be again the death of equity and inclusion in college admissions? It seems to all be connected. Football is not separate from the university as it stands, it is woven into the university to a degree that the presidents are heavily involved in securing more money from the football program.

Salary cap?

Look it"s real simple, just ask the Universities to open up The Athletic Dept books. Gross income vs expenses, and don" forget the income from men"s Football and Basketball. Pay for all Women"s sports, and i mean all of it. Travel, scholarships. Coaches, and men"s non revenue sports. Rowing, tennis, volleyball etc. I"am not saying Jay is wrong, but i would love to see the real numbers and expenses.

It is a shame when one sport can change the direction of collegiate sports. College Football has changed everything.

Public funds should never pay for the expansion of college athletic departments. That includes the tuition from the students attending the university. College athletics should not be an organized business. It is the antithesis of education which is supposed to be the point of college. No college sports should be for profit. It invites greed and corruption.

How’s Missouri coach complaining he’s in the SEC and making 6M a year

Sucks that ESPN doesn't pay Jay 😢😂

How does Bilas keep his job I would think that these schools he talks about have some sway

It IS the destruction of the student athlete and the final corruption of amateur athletes 😢

Sounds like a Union man talking!

Student athletes…hah! Not even in the late 70s when I was at NCSU. I never saw a jock in Calculus class or organic chemistry.

99% of all players get "ZERO" NIL money, my friends. ...And that scholarship is worth about .0001% of the billions of dollars they generate for the universities. Those players will work 40+ years after college and their lifetime earnings will never come close to what the coaches, athletic directors, and presidents will put into their bank accounts in "one" year. That's the exploitation reality and truth that people don't want to hear.

Since college football & basketball has turned into " farm leagues". Why allow them to lower the value of school degrees that real students earn. There are exceptions, of course , but do you believe they are really going to school with all the practice, games, & travel.

1st, but who cares.. lol

Rich: “And what about going to school? . . . “ Make the damn NFL and NBA start their own minor league systems and stop handing out degrees to people who don’t care if they have one.

Money is ruining all sports, pro and college

This didn't happen 30 years ago. Don't be ridiculous, Jay.

Blaming the Big12 ??? What a joke

Bilas job is to promote or encourage viewership. Sorry, Jay. You’re wrong. You’re laugh-lably absurd. I rather watch the Ivy League football. No scholarships. All amateurs.

Jay just cuts right through the bullshit, doesn’t he?

Athletes don’t learn anything in College

When was the last time headlines about "anti-trust" cases screamed in the media? . The Department of Justice isn't after colleges, it's too busy persecuting Republicans. And which Congressman is going to stand up and demand that their state universities shell out employment contracts to athletes? Educators in every state and the National Teachers' Association have one lobbying issue: more pay for teachers without any relationship to their performance in the classroom. This Bilas guy can bark at the cat in the tree and growl, but nothing is going to happen.

Interesting perspective. But it clearly destroys the Student/Athlete concept. Schools need to decide if they wish to preserve education vs minor league FB. I think ND was trying to do it with supporting Stanford and Cal to the ACC. Jay is right.. it’s the American way. But greed and power will eventually destroy. It’s all about money. The changes have little to do with the player. College FB as we know it will no longer exist. Let the schools negotiate Ks. Pay the players for their entertaining the Student body. But remove them from the classroom. Most at certain schools don’t attend anyway. Don’t put schools like ND, Duke, NW, Stanford, Cal.. to mention a few.. at a disadvantage. The concept of the Student/Athlete is done. Pay the Athlete to play and entertain. Pay the Student to go to Class and learn. They are two separate entities. Ultimately the individual should simply decide which entity they wish to join. If you don’t do it that way, we should K with every individual who is attending a college… Athlete or Student. Sad. But yes it’s the American Way. We would sell our Country to China if the price was right. Oh right.. we are already doing that…..

Lift the kimono is both racist and misogynistic. Please stop.

Jay , Stop 🛑 😂

Jay just cuts right through the bullshit, doesn’t he?