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Post by universityjim on Apr 5, 2024 12:28:07 GMT -6
I don't think college football or athletics in general is going away. The 100+ schools who are have nots are still going to want to play high level football in some form. As always the people who are in this for the love of money are going to screw things up for a while.
What do you think is going to happen to the NCAA basketball tournament when this group of schools breaks away from the NCAA?
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 5, 2024 12:45:50 GMT -6
I don't think college football or athletics in general is going away. The 100+ schools who are have nots are still going to want to play high level football in some form. As always the people who are in this for the love of money are going to screw things up for a while. What do you think is going to happen to the NCAA basketball tournament when this group of schools breaks away from the NCAA? This is apparently FB only. Essentially replacing FBS by conference with FBS by school in new super conference. They imagine having an athletic department dealing with the MAC for all other sports. Hard to imagine how it makes any sense to have the classification and call it a league and still have old conferences. Which occurs to me would mean we could do whatever we want with FB, drop it, downgrade it, or join this new FBS. How they schedule is not spelled out that I can see.
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 5, 2024 12:51:15 GMT -6
Top 70 or 80 won't be the end of it. I don't even think there are 30-40. Once they split off an upper chunk then the real top tier money makers will start weeding the lower part of the top group. I'm thinking more like 20 are on par with each other and they will not be happy sharing or having a level playing field even with teams in the 30-40 range. Unless there are regulations in place to level spending Michigan and Ohio State are going to bury schools like Purdue and Indiana very early in the process. We are witnessing the death of college athletics. It will be interesting to see what happens after everything implodes. Some very selfish people don't know how good they've had it and they are going to ruin it for everyone but just a few. There is going to come a point where they cross a line and piss off a big chunk of the public. Personally I think many people will reject a college NFL. You are not wrong. I think you're spot on on every point. College athletics as we know are dying and have been dying since the free for all of the portal and NIL really kicked in. Especially in college football. Basketball, the mids can kinda hang in there because the overhead isn't that much. 13 scholarships, smaller travel budgets, etc. You don't have to carry 85 scholllies plus another 30 paid ""walk ons." Hell, those top 10 or so might even just purchase their own bus lines/private planes. You'll see the top 10 or so in massive bidding wars for those freaking "walk ons to keep those additional really good players away from other schools, including BSU level programs. They'll just make sure those guys get paid enough to be willing to be buried and most likely never play on super bloated rosters just so no other program can get them. And the portal within that group of 10-20 power football schools will be insane. (unless they write their own rules, which, they will, that do things like prohibit willy nilly transfers) There will be contracts binding players to said programs and they will only be able to move about if they get released or earn some sort of free agent period. Yep, the top 20ish programs will be professional football. Above the table, no longer under the table. If schools like BSU are able to sustain some sort of football program, we'll just be a minor league to the top 20ish schools. We'll develop kids pretty much just so the Big Whatever can then offer them a contract we could never afford and poof, our best talent is gone. Every year. Just like now, only more so. Maybe we could negotiate affiliate agreements with a team or teams and have them pay a portion of our football budget to serve as their minor leages. Maybe a revenue sharing thing. There is an article which describes it as mini NFL with a union, draft!, trades, salary cap, and with that NIL as it is now may become what endorsements are for NFL. With a union the new league is antitrust exempt, so anything is possible, as part of the collective bargaining agreement.
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 7, 2024 9:04:32 GMT -6
theathletic.com/5390774/2024/04/04/college-football-super-league-2023-standings/Athletic describes how this might have worked this year. Basically, the SEC and B10 remain more or less intact. ACC and B12 a little less intact, and P10 revived. with 3 more leagues cobbled together with a 8th league consisting of none of the above. Ohio and Toledo out of the MAC schedule into the none of the above promotion division of the super league. MAC and other G5 conferences would presumably rearrange its schedule to cover for their teams absence until they get relegated. MAYBE, for example a MAC team then elevated to the bottom tier league. How exactly you qualify or get relegated not clear. Most P5 schools permanently in the super league. Being promoted just means you can win a division of other wannabes and probably one team gets in the tournament.
Other speculation on that here:
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Post by cardsfb1 on Apr 8, 2024 5:01:13 GMT -6
Lot of ideas being discussed, but looks ike the SEC and B10 are creating their own super division. ACC and B12 should combine to have a chance of survival. The rest should create their own FBS level above the FCS and have their own playoff. The GAME CHANGER will be if FB players become employees and how that impacts every college and if it carries over into all men and women sports.
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