I'm kind of jaded on the whole thing but Kirby and UGA were int the news today with a lot of quotes. If you haven't been paying attention, the BIG 10 wants to expand to 24 and the Big 12 and ACC are on board as far as I can tell.

The SEC wants to go to 16. Kirby has went so far as to suggest the SEC secede to get the rules we want. UGA has been pro cap and having a set of enforceable rules as well.

Here are some Kirby quotes

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ON THE POSSIBILITY OF THE SEC SEPARATING FROM THE REST OF COLLEGE SPORTS...

"Well, the second part of the question I don't have the answer to, but I've said this for a long time to our president. I've been a huge advocate that if we can't find the rules that everybody plays by, then we should play our own. I'm not afraid of that. I'm not afraid to break away and say that our conference is strong enough to go out now and play. I mean, if we could actually function, and it financially would make our programs more stable and we could support things financially — I'm talking about all the sports — and do by our own rules, I'd be all for that. I mean, I've been to this meeting now 10, 11 times, and it's frustrating at times to say, 'Well, we can't do this because of litigation, We can't do this because of litigation, we can't do this because we'll get sued, we can't do that.' And we're just trying to do things for the betterment of the sport and the betterment of the student-athletes, and that's not curtailing what money they make. I'm not advocating that they make less money. I'm fine with what student-athletes make. I'm trying to make it where it's as equal and it's comparable footing for everybody and it's not a race to the bottom, as they say."

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ON 24-TEAM PLAYOFF WEAKENS REGULAR SEASON...

"Absolutely it can. But I want to go back to self-preservation. If you ask enough people, they want an opportunity to be in the party, and if they don't make the party, they get fired. So then they're worried about the party, not the dilution of the market.

"So there's competing interests here that I think are unfortunate. I don't want it to be a diluted market. I think there's going to be more blowouts. If that happens, it's going to happen, but that happened in the old model. I mean, let's be honest. It happened with 12 before. So you're not going to get perfect games, perfect scenarios, but there will be games that lose some of their meaning leading up to that. But maybe there's more great games in the 24-team model than there are in the 12 or the 16. I don't know.

"I'm not here to decide how many teams should be in it. I would much rather talk about how the teams are decided that are in it."

Sankey hinting at the SEC going to a standalone...not sure how this would work lol

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NEW: SEC commissioner Greg Sankey threatens conference-led rules due to lack of progress:

"We still believe we need national standards. If those can’t be achieved, then we’ll have to look at more conference-led regulation, but that’s the reality we’re facing."

UGA president Morehead on the state of the sport currently

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Georgia president Jere Morehead on state of college athletics: "We're close to anarchy. Time is running out on us. What have we accomplished in the last year? Nothing. Absolutely no progress. I'd say we're in a worse position than we were a year ago. And that's concerning to me"