Big Ten, SEC creating joint advisory group of ADs, presidents to address college sports problems

Professional CFB League formation committee.

 

Why is it not possible to give an agree and dislike rating simultaneously . I guess its too late for the Schools and Universities to return to the amateur model where actual students went out for the team and played the sport....they are addicted to that TV money like a mainline Heroin junkie. Besides who would pay for all the massive debt from the facilities they've built if they opted out. I never thought I would see the sport I once loved commit Hari-kiri in such a rapid time-frame.

 

Time to say "nah nah nah naaahh, hey hey hey, goodbye to ncaa"

 

You just described every school that will not be in the college Premier League. So, choices. . . .

 

We'll all have our favorite NFL team, favorite super College team and favorite actual College team.

 

And so it begins

 

As expected…

 

“Essentially, the two most powerful conferences on the planet told everyone else to step aside. They're going to figure out the future of college athletics themselves. They're done waiting for Congressional intervention or NCAA action.

The future of college athletics will be at least influenced -- but probably dictated -- by the SEC and Big Ten. They have most of the money, talent, recruiting, facilities and brands at their disposal.”

SEC, Big Ten 'advisory group' stands as coded threat to NCAA: Figure it out, or we'll go off ourselves

Do they really need the NC2A now? Why not just put together something like the no fun league has in a league office to oversee everything. The owners fund and control it.

 

A big part of the problem is that the NCAA is made up of about 1,100 colleges and universities, all with a say in how things are run. About 1,000 of them have little if any similarity with the remaining 100 and shouldn't have any input on how those top institutions run their programs. It's WAY past time for the top schools to tell the NCAA sayanora and form its own entity. If the two entities still want to compete against each other a joint rules committee should be formed to keep the on the court or field rules the same. Everything else should be split.

The NCAA Board of Governors recently went from 21 members to nine and included representatives of all three divisions.

These two quotes by Sankey are pertinent:

"You're assigning all the legal and financial responsibility to a nine-member group that has a minority representation from the groups that are generating the financial and legal realities," Sankey said. "It really is backwards."

"That's our world," Sankey said of the power conferences' influence. "To assign decision-making authority to a room that is not invested the same way is long-term problematic. That's as direct and blunt as I could be."
Third-party influence may soon shake foundation of college football impacting conferences, programs

 

I am curious to see what they come up with. Somebody needs to step up and get this under control (NIL, portal, etc.) IMO, the NCAA has moved with sloth like speed to put in guidance. Such is life in a bureaucracy.
Throw in selective investigation of some programs while ignoring the shenanigans of top programs (looking at you Georgia, Bama, Michigan, LSU, OSU), you have the makings of a completely useless organization. Guess we will see if there is truly honor amongst thieves!

 

Ive never watched an actual college team.

 

Most fans realize that what they have been watching over the past decades is a far cry from amateur athletics. Coaches paid tens of millions not to coach, conferences raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in TV contracts, schools building palatial facilities, players academic deficiencies being ignored, players getting compensation under the table, and the NCAA studiously ignoring it.

To me, there are three main issues. First, the portal. Limited transfers should be approved by courts when players sign contracts. Given that college athletics has not been amateur for decades as outlined above, I think the portal issue, once solved, solves most issues for most fans.

Second, a compensation system that is open, fair to the students, and promotes even competition across universities (salary caps). Third, get rid of the corrupt NCAA. They have screwed this up all along and their involvement can’t help.

 

Gators are and always have been the only college team I care about. The others could literally fall off the face of the Earth and it wouldn't matter at all to me now.

 

SEC, Big Ten leaders express uncertainty with College Football Playoff as future formatting questions linger