Regional basketball conferences (whispers are legit), OSU's Big 12 option, the Pac-12, Apple TV and more | Mailbag

The discussion of potential basketball fallout from a football-driven super league highlights a wider shift in college sports governance, with the Mailbag weighing how money and conference realignment could reshape the sport. The analysis frames a true super league not as simply merging the SEC and Big Ten, but as top football brands leaving those conferences and forming a new entity with Notre Dame and select ACC and possibly Big 12 schools. It considers scenarios involving the Protect College Sports Act, which targets a super league. The piece suggests the new league could form late in the 2020s or early 2030s, involving about 28 to 36 schools and generating conference-media revenue potentially up to triple current levels for Big Ten and SEC members. NCAA president Charlie Baker said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that administrators are discussing regionalized conferences for sports beyond football.