Break away from NCAA

Less about "breaking away" since the NCAA is comprised of its member institutions and more about creating a secondary governing body for the new world of what are basically pro athletes.

They'll do it in some way.

I think Herbie and a lot of others are being lazy about assessing the power structure.

The B1G and SEC's goal has never been to breakaway, or to create some league with 'X' number of teams that compete separately from the rest of college football.

The B1G, the SEC, and their members are not a governing body over the college football landscape. They don't want to be. They are players within an existing framework, and their goal is to grab as much power within that framework without entirely breaking it as possible.

There is a reason the B1G and SEC are both reluctant to expand further, or that networks are not interested in opening up the bank to pay them to add more members: conferences can get too big to function. I've said it since day one, and I maintain that the B1G and SEC will both get to 20 members and stop. They won't breakaway from the NCAA (or whatever successor organization may eventually emerge). Instead, the B1G and SEC will use their considerable sway to operate on extremely favorable terms and make a ton of money in the process at the expense of everyone else. Not so different than the FBS and FCS environment we already know and love.

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BreakawayZou83

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Agreed

also the new football landscape needs to put rules in place to govern the sport and if the athletes don't want to play by those rules while earning on nil they can find another league to play in

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1. Major conferences will prune schools. 2. Left behind schools, strapped for cash, will start cutting non-rev sports.

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The new SEC

LSU, UF, UGA, Bama, AU, Tenner, UT, OU, Ole Miss or MSU (not both), SC and prune the rest

The non-revenue sports need to keep within some sort of governing organization. And they don’t necessarily need to fall by conference alignment. It makes absolutely no sense that the former Pac 12 teams volleyball and women’s basketball and sports like that have to cross the country to play a match. They should form their own conferences that are geographically suitable. Football is another story. They should absolutely break away from the NCAA.

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The SEC and big10 need to form an association, and then let others in as needed.

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But why would the B1G and SEC need to form a new association/league/etc. in order to better themselves? They've already won in the existing power structure. Leaving it behind doesn't guarantee any additional power or money. The SEC doesn't share its conference revenue dollars with the Big 12 or the ACC. And Alabama doesn't share its ticket sales or merchandising revenues with Washington State or Kansas. And the NCAA itself really doesn't make that much money from college football (the vast majority of its revenue comes from the NCAA Tournament, which would not follow a league consisting only of the B1G and SEC). And most of that tournament money gets distributed back to NCAA schools.

I'm not sure all that many universities or fans want theses conferences to turn into a version of the XFL either. There would be devastating consequences to non-revenue sports, and it would further spoil the tradition of college sports to a point that some fans may simply turn away and think "well now this is just a shittier version of the NFL".

I think the likely result is that the B1G and SEC each add a few more members, start playing 9 (B1G already does) or even 10 conference games each year, and they create a four-team conference playoff, and have the vast majority of the guaranteed playoff spots. Basically, they will be playing mini leagues of their own within the confines of the existing power structure, with member schools generating 3-4x the revenue of non-B1G/SEC schools.

The NCAA remains clueless about handling NIL and has put self-governing superconferences in the passing lane. The NCAA and the Roman Empire have this much in common, they were both destroyed from within.

Do it. The sooner the better.

For two long weave tried to be sort of professional but also sort of amateur… sort of like the NFL, but also traditional.

This half in half out model is destroying the sport.

Just model it after the NFL and be done with it.

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If you want professional football, go watch the NFL.

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This take just denies what has been plainly evident for years, …even decades,……big time college football is a professional business. It is ridiculous to think this multi-billion dollar enterprise is an “amateur” sport. However, that is the narrative that so many people have sought to maintain in spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars each major institution pours into their football programs. The destabilization that is occurring now is partly a result of these many years of this type of denial that so many people have preached.