Is the NCAA even relevant anymore?

Why do you think the conferences are expanding? The NCAA is on a death march.

Totally dead I don’t know why we even play football anymore ……. Smh

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Seems they don't have any control or power over college sports anymore. What exactly did they do? Are they even needed?

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I just want the basketball and baseball postseasons to stay the same

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Is the number of people that don't understand what, and who, the NCAA is as surprising to you as it is me?

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How people say it: the NCAA is exploiting these kids!!

How they should say it: the schools and athletics departments are exploiting these kids!!

In our imagination: down with the NCAA!!

In reality: change the name of the NCAA!!

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Why do you think the conferences are expanding? The NCAA is on a death march.

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This is nonsense.

The NCAA is voluntary. It's an organization that is made up of it's member schools, aka the NCAA is the schools.

Schools can leave any time they want. They don't need to have big conferences, little conferences or anything. They can just up and leave.

However, if they left the NCAA, do people think there is not going to anything or any rules in it's place? No, they are going to create another organization that is exactly like the NCAA, has the same function and everything else.

At best, the only thing that would be different is that the number of schools it represents would be limited and in that way it could cater to the bigger programs more, where as currently many of the smaller schools limit things. However even then with things like college football, the NCAA already gives FBS teams more autonomy and such.

Overall, if the schools want something changed, they can vote for it.

Everything that is going on is about ESPN/Fox behind the scenes trying to consolidate things so they don't have to keep paying smaller schools with little TV markets larger amounts because they are tied to bigger schools. AKA the teams of the Big12 and Pac12 that don't go into bigger conferences will get large cuts in their TV revenue, and the difference will go to the bigger conferences.

So the bigger schools are basically like yeah, we'll take the extra money and frick the rest of the conference.

As mentioned, the NCAA is the schools. It's not an external force, it's the schools working together to establish baseline rules, organize schedules and bowls, etc.

It was an organization designed from the beginning to give the impression college sports were self regulated so the government wouldn't step in, back when kids were dying on football fields.

The only thing the schools lost was preventing athletes from getting paid by third parties. There isn't shite they can do about that because they got their asses rightfully kicked in the courts.

Since the amateurism regulation was the most visible part we think they're irrelevant but they still do all of the intra school scheduling, budgeting and otherwise boring work.