In Reply to: Re: Man, you're this close to suggesting a soccer style posted by SehornBlew on February 02, 2024 at 11:00:44
there yet is you're still centering the concept around existing conferences. You can see that there are some top level teams in other conferences as well. So instead of keeping the SEC and Big10 as the two main groups in an AFC vs NFC type set up, go big. A single "premier league" that contains the top, I dunno, 16 teams in two groups separated by geography (like divisions in the AFC and NFC, except fluid divisions based on who's in this league any given year) all playing one another with a couple of cross "division" games for fun, pick the top 4 at the end based on well-established, objective tie-breakers, and create a final four that way, while the bottom two drops out and you bring in the two top teams of teh lower divisions, and so on.
You can then realign the divisions based on the new geographic alignments and keep going.
Gives everyone motivation to get better and maintain quality. Most of all, you know the bottom teams in the league will be fighting like hell to stay in the league at the end of the season, which benefits the game overall.
So yeah, ditch the current conferences as a whole.
I think the transfer question can be handled any way you want, including, giving players an out when their team is relegated. There are a lot of smart people in the world who can come up with a good system to handle that question.
Regarding Title IX, it's a complicated topic with too many dependencies, implications and tendrils all over the landscape. My initial reaction to that is you don't really need to increase the amount of money in the available pool. College football does not really need more money pouring in, does it? People are being paid relative to the money the programs make. Maybe you should not have to pay a ton of dollars to every football team. Maybe teams make what they make and that's how the cookie crumbles. That's how soccer leagues work. (If anything, there are some caps on how much a club can pay their players, though I am not sure how that really works. Probably every league has a slightly different set of rules on that.)