I think they would have to go to 48 with 4 16 team divisions and I would prefer they do it like the NCAA basketball tournament and just seed them out with champions as one seeds
As it should. There would be some upset like Indiana and Illinois as well as others on their level but this is a super League not spread the money around league.
There are probably teams between 32 and 48 at over the years would move up into being ranked teams. It can surely work if we are only playing with those 48 teams because we play crap on the schedule all the time and it has not ever been a problem. Vanderbilt being replaced with Boise State would not be a problem
for me…if the football team is detached from the university I will have zero ties to it and pretty much little interest. I root for UF because of my ties and the teams ties to UF.
Yes and that is nothing more than shuffling the deck chairs to pacify the the schools that never truly compete.
NCAA Finances: Revenue & Expenses by School - USA TODAY you can invite the top 32 on this list. A few are surprising.
I think it will be more like 64 teams. That would encompass most of the remaining Big 4 conference teams. 4 - 16 team conferences with each with 2 divisions. Each conference with a championship game leaving an 8 team playoff at the end of each season. The two final college super bowl contenders will have 16 games.
The only 2 surprising ones to me are Louisville and Indiana. Neither UM or Vandy are on the list which is because they are private schools, I suppose?
As I said before that's just rearranging deck chairs. If you want a true super league you have to cut the dead weight programs.
64 teams cuts the deadest of the weights and restores Major college football back to being major and the rest minor. There are a few outliers for sure (routine conference bottom dwellers), but for the most part you've cut most of the fat without getting into muscle or bone.
Private schools don't have to report this information like public schools have to. You'll notice Notre Dame, USCw are nowhere to be found either. Virginia is the one that blows me away. #14?
When you have just one broadcasting network televising your games, they tend to get preachy and worse as to the inner workings of internal SEC things that they should have ZERO business concerning themselves with.
That's the issue here. They want a semipro league but there's not enough money to support that. Instead it's basically just turn college football into the semipro league and leach as much revenue as possible. It's the private equity short term profit model, just in college sports. Where do new fans come from in 15 years when they're just semipro teams? Nobody knows or cares as all the executives and agents are out on their yachts retired.
Predicted this several times early in the transition of amateur college football to a corporate enterprise. "It's only gonna help athletes sell tees and hoodies for pizza money they claimed". Lmao
Not to me anymore. And it's only the most modest of passing interest to my kids--even the ones who played football. I hope I'm wrong and my anecdotal evidence is just anecdotal. But when more and more strings get cut between the passion and personal connection of the fans and a rapidly changing sport, it makes me wonder if there's a tipping point ahead.
Money grab? I didn't read the article though. Minor leagues trying to equal the SEC and Big Whatever who have the leverage now. I was surprised they gave up so much for the play-offs (i.e., five conference champions with automatic bids, 1 or 2 of which will inevitably knock out a more deserving SEC or Big Whatever team, then byes and re-seeding?!).
