...ends up on top, and where costs keep sky rocketing mainly to keep about a dozen of the long time greediest and unethical programs rolling in the dough?

One of the first things a super conference will do is institute a tiered revenue distribution scheme designed to keep the greedy on top and to limit the ability of other super conference members to rise to that top tier. The signs are already there that the blue bloods have little interest in sharing the wealth.

Eventually the D1 house of cards is more likely to collapse than evolve into a workable super conference solution.