In Reply to: There are some complexities that college football posted by blindness on February 02, 2024 at 11:55:37
His solution - and he thinks SEC-B1G will push us toward this -
1) Take football - at least premier level football - out of the rest of college sports. Set a minimum level that all teams must meet in terms of financing their football programs to qualify them for that level. If you can't invest at least that much in football, you aren't going to be able to keep up with that level anyway. And establish a Czar for football. And he did suggest mobility - schools could move up into that level or drop out of it depending on their choice and on ability (or desire) to finance a program at that level. So yes, relegation.
2) All all the other sports to remain together BUT organize them regionally. He thinks we'll all adjust and won't really miss the old conferences, not if there are levels of competition - the SE won't have the SEC but they WILL have SE regional competition. He said he knows of schools that today already tell their Olympic sports in their scheduling to limit scheduling to sites they can reach by bus because the money isn't there to fly them across country all year long.
Anyway, the joint committee is definitely a first step in that direction.
BTW Farnham also did a great job laying out what Ed O'Bannon's lawsuit was all about - what NIL actually was supposed to mean - as opposed to what it is now with no regulation at all (and two states suing the NCAA on basis of anti-trust violation. (perhaps Tennessee and VA iirc - not sure)