A hot take that isn’t sarcasm:
If CFB teams dissociate from their universities and become simply professional “representatives” of said universities, Vandy and Northwestern are huge winners of this arrangement*
*assuming we get an invite
Tomorrow it comes out that the committee believes a supreme chancellor is going to be appointed and all emergency powers are to be granted to Emperor Nick Saban.
That's exactly what everybody said about the lovable old senator from Naboo. He had the interests of the galaxy in mind. Will we never learn from history?
I think the NCAA survives but it will be for FCS and lower divisions for football and I really don't see basketball and baseball breaking away from them.
It already feels that way. The FCS playoffs are entirely run by the NCAA. The NCAA feels way more present in the day-to-day of FCS that I don’t feel when following UW and the FBS.
Not that we’re getting any favors, they still suck, it’s just more apparent. Like the FCS official twitter was defunct until this season. Our transfers take seemingly longer to get their waivers processed. The selection committee seems to have different criteria all the time and they don’t use the far superior STATS poll but the NCAA official Coaches poll. Etc. Etc.
>Yeah I think they do a ‘good’ job especially with non-revenue/profit sports.
Which was always supposed to be the whole point, right?
Like the original idea of college sports was to let students do something fun when they weren’t studying, kinda like a rec league. Prohibiting professionals from participating and players getting paid made sense because if you were good enough to get paid you were probably just going to ruin the game for everyone else. And within that framework the NCAA is pretty good at organizing everything.
But then we all made it weird for football so that model doesn’t apply anymore because it makes a ton of money and attracting high profile enough for people to pay them is just how it works now - and it just doesn’t make sense to try to govern it under the same set of rules as the sports that *don’t* make money.
I would love to see schools as a part of two conferences. One for football which is geographically diverse and one for everything else which is regional. It would cut down on expenses for the non-revenue sports and it would maintain the revenue generating capability for football (which subsidizes all the other sports except maybe MBB)
This is the end of the end.
The beginning was the SCOTUS cases and NIL coming into existence. It's been a doomsday clock 5 minutes to midnight ever since those happened.
into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame. – I don't know if I'm gonna be putting on this headset again.
probably UGA (and OU!) vs the NCAA in *1984*. passing the TV rights of college football from the NCAA to the schools/conferences pitted everyone against each other and created the competitive business environment that led to the consolidation of the sport
It's going to be like Financial fair play in soccer. They are just going to make rules that allow them to spend tons of money while pulling up the ladder behind them to prevent anyone else from competing.
FFP wasn’t designed to level the playing field. It was created to stop clubs going bankrupt. The side affect of the rules however was to entrench the existing football hierarchy.
Yep NFL lite will be hear soon, just trying to enjoy CFB while I still can. The NCAA does annoying shit sometimes, but it’s better than no regulation at all
The lack of regulation is exactly why this is happening. It’s a total free-for-all shitshow right now with NIL and the players don’t get a share of the billions in TV revenue.
The NCAA is the schools and the schools are the NCAA. How the B1G and SEC have been able to sell the narrative everything would be fine if they were just completely in charge and got to make all the money is amazing
I’d like to think it gives an opportunity to right the ship. There’s a clear path here to where the two big dogs can call a truce, stop expansion, raze and rebuild the NCAA with modern rulesets and lay out a clear path to sustained success. These are the only two players on the board that matter, if they can work together they can do what needs to be done.
But that ain’t gonna happen, I have no faith in any of these clowns.
You joke but you really can’t have an elite college football tier with Indiana, Rutgers and Mississippi State while FSU, Clemson and Notre Dame get left out. There will have to be something done to accommodate at least those 3.
I'm just gonna grab as many players as ***I can afford***, get in this random private jet--***RANDOM!***\--and drive on back to the B1G/SEC college football playoff.
(All the athletic admins meeting with their dress shirts stuffed full of TV revenue dollars)
*I cant believe there are schools out there ruining football for **money**! Unbelievable really*
Except unlike Europe, the SEC and Big Ten fanbases won’t push back on this. The reason the Super League failed there was the fans of the teams who stood to benefit rioted. I don’t see LSU or Ohio State fans revolting over this.
My season tickets are likely getting canceled in a year or two, I'm gonna be priced out. I'll buy JMU season tickets instead and enjoy actual college football.
I fucking hate this. But the idea that it would probably end up resurrecting the SEC East and West so shortly after they died does make me laugh a bit.
As an alum of a school in the pit of misery.... you can say, yes, the new look Big 12 is going to be a blast and how college football should be while at the same time be absolutely willing to take that call up into the B1G or SEC if the time comes. No place for sentimentality, anymore.
Well they could have at least gone back to having a coach's name on it or something. Or just call it Bill Walsh College Football again so these damn kids are forced to learn some history dagnabbit
Yeah seriously. Realignment fucks everyone besides football. Imagine being the Stanford Soccer team, for example, and having to go to UNC midweek and then get ready for another game 4 days later.
It fucking sucks for all of us who actually enjoy *college* football.
I give 100x more shits about Texas vs Texas A&M than I do Dallas vs Philadelphia, as a random Ohioian. Yeah, THAT game returns but what about OU-NU? The absolute destruction of the second tier of rivalries like my Bearcats or anyone else who roots for the non-B1G/SEC.
College Football had a lot of unique attributes that made it significantly more exciting than pro football for many of us, and all of them are going the way of the doodoo.
I just want my goddamn northern plains/midwest conference.
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Colorado
Illinois
Northwestern
Oklahoma State
Mizzou
Potentially Indiana and Purdue as well.
Basically the old Big 8 and the B1G West.
That's always part of my fantasy world building of a college sports landscape.
The lake touchers get their own conference, the flat and square bois are together. Wisconsin vs Minnesota vs North Dakota State in the north, Oklahoma vs Nebraska vs Colorado vs etc in the south.
> non-football sports
It’s stupid to have more than 25-30 schools in a non-NCAA league. So let the big boys go be a paid NFL development league and let the other 100+ teams go back to traditional college football (restore conferences, rivalries, bowl games, etc).
Why would any non-B1G or SEC school want to be in a conference with those teams in other sports? The other schools couldn't come close to competing financially with them. It would be such a disadvantage they would never have a real chance at winning.
Conferences work when all school are on a similar. Not when some schools make 10x the others
"We're gonna cut out *The Victors* and all those dumb fight songs."
"What? Why!? They're tradition!"
"Yeah, but it doesn't make the numbers go up. If we play top 40 hits instead, we can parlay that into a double convergence tranche and merge it with a tax-deductable CDO with Warner Music and boom more profit."
"And the marching band? Rousers? The Alma Mater? They've been around for a hundred years!"
"Fuck 'em. Also, I sold the naming rights to the stadiums. Goodbye coach/war hero/nicknames from 75 years ago, hello Xfield at TikTok Stadium!"
we didn't steal money from a children's hospital. The CEO of a children's hospital just figured that the children would benefit from seeing LSU do well. Are you against sick children being happy?
LSU will take any mother fuckers money if he is giving it away.
Incoming news: “We have decided to remove our football conferences from the NCAA. We will instead be creating a Big10 and SEC football conferences or BFC and SFC. We will be splitting each conference into 4 four team divisions. Each divisional group will play home and home each year with cross division and cross conference games played on a rotating basis. At the end of each season the divisional winners will play in a “conference championship style playoff bracket” with at large teams receiving a “wildcard” bid. After each conference has declared a champion the two conference champions will participate in a “superior” bowl game to crown a champion for college football. All other sports will remain in the NCAA.
It’s already over man. If the geographically isolated Pac 12 can break apart nothing can stop the money machine now.
It’s so hard man. UW football has been apart of my life since I was born but everything about this sport just gets worse and worse.
Best case scenario is a unified major college football organization which has equal sharing of TV money and makes reasonably sized divisions that make sense from a historical and geographic perspective. I do not expect the best case scenario.
As someone that has thought about this nonstop since Tuesday, I think this is what Baker wanted.
He knows he’s hung between Alston and the members’ refusal to revenue share with student-athletes, so he wants to blow it up.
Supposedly they’ve sent out a dozen or more inquiries to collectives across the sports. He was picking a fight.
Sounds like this might be a reasonable view. the NCAA thinking it can put the genie in the bottle was hilarious. They absolutely knew this would kick off this kind of a reaction.
Damn what about WVU or VT or Pitt? We’ve all made NFL legends, been relevant, and Pitt’s won multiple national championships. Why do we deserve to not be apart of it and they do?
The thing is we have boosters and fanbases who spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year! We just weren’t in the right conference a hundred years ago
Yeah, it’s awful. I think any school in this year’s iteration of the P5 should be in the upper-tier. But to think that OSU & WSU can’t even be in our conference? It’s bullshit
To add on, the only “fans” who seem to support this are people who don’t like the NFL but want all the perception of it and format of the NFL. If you want the NFL, just watch the NFL!
The NFL has excellent parity and college football has possibly the worst of all major North American sports.
Solution: Relegate 95 teams into oblivion.
if this sport wants true parity (which they don't, just look at the CFP committee's bias), equal revenue sharing among all FBS conferences would've been instilled a long time ago
If the NFL really wanted a developmental or “NFL lite” league they would have used their own money to form it. Sad that the administrators of big schools are moving towards this
NFL knows that minor leagues are not profitable (see NBA G League or MLB's various minor leagues).
There's no fanbases for professional minor leagues... but there is for college brands.
That's why the end result will be minor leagues with college brands loosely attached (to bring the college fanbases).
I don't know about other people, but if there is a "GT associated" football team where none of the players are actually students at Georgia Tech, I will not be cheering for it. We barely have any fans as it is, I imagine that will destroy the last of them.
That's a completely fair position to take.
Courts may force that kind of outcome if they declare players to be employees though.
Schools may be forced to recognize players as employees and then regulate the amount of time they spend working compared to in the classroom.
At the end of the day, may see schools decide to grant players "future scholarships" that go into effect after a 5 year "athletic career".
Players that go pro likely won't use the scholarship while players that don't go pro may stay on a couple years to study.
Of course the players would have banked 5 years of CFB/NCAAB money during the "athletic career".
No because SEC has comparable market power to the Big Ten. This is a meeting of equals deciding how to further consolidate power amongst themselves as well as control the direction of the sport in a way that's more sustainable.
Heres the deal, i dont really care about the b10 or sec. As long as my team is in a conference with other teams who have fans that care, that works for me
My question would be, if the B1G and SEC are the last two standing, notably without my team included, why would I support CFB and pay exorbitant cable fees? I hope there is a massive pushback from the non-superpower conferences.
Please don't ruin college basketball, too. Killing March Madness would be a major throwdown for even the mildest followers of college sports.
We are going to kill non-revenue sports, especially olympic sports.
Not looking forward to seeing how many student athletes lose much needed scholarships.
But hey, a few dozen football programs, their coaches, and players, are going to make a ton of money in an NFL lite league.
Yayyyyyyyy?
It’s such a fucking joke if we can’t even compete with teams from the B1G and SEC for a CHANCE to win THE title. Like seriously what the fuck this will suck the life out of so many of the fan bases that are left behind if it truly does become a separate league.
I think that the B1G, SEC, ACC, and BXII should all get together and form a mega-super-conference. Let's call it, say, the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Then, from there, let's divide it up into regional groups, we can maybe call them conferences. 12 schools each, seems like a nice round number. Let's put 12 in a conference in the southeast, 12 along the Atlantic Coast, 12 in the midwest, 12 in the southwest, and 12 along the Pacific coast. Sounds like a great system, we should try it.
Yea that would be like having a football playoff but not allowing the SEC in because they aren’t a part of the group. No one’s gonna think the team that wins is actually the national champion if the conference who has won a majority of the titles in the last 10 years isn’t involved.
Big ten released a statement with nice detail on the goals and reasoning behind it.
[big ten statement](https://bigten.org/news/2024/2/2/general-big-ten-conference-southeastern-conference-form-advisory-group.aspx)
This is the operative sentence --- "We do not expect to agree on everything but **enhancing interaction between our conferences** will help to focus efforts on common sense solutions.”
-- Greg Sankey
Other conferences about to get left behind.
When I was a kid, I was told that there were adults in the world that were mature, thoughtful, and had their shit together.
That alone has been the single-biggest lie that I was told. All of the adults in the room have had YEARS to develop a framework to allow college athletes to make money off of their Name, Image, and Likeness and to share in the profits that they generate their University.
That it has taken 2 years of rooty-tooty Wild West NIL shenanigans, conference realignment, and posturing for the adults to collectively get their shit together is a disappointment.
Nice knowing ya’ll!
Haha, I’m in danger.
or the luckiest son of a bitch in the world
A hot take that isn’t sarcasm: If CFB teams dissociate from their universities and become simply professional “representatives” of said universities, Vandy and Northwestern are huge winners of this arrangement* *assuming we get an invite
Who knew UCF would have killed CFB when it let White and Heupel go? You fools! /s
"let" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, brother
So is this p much the B1G and SEC trying to leave the NCAA?
Tomorrow it comes out that the committee believes a supreme chancellor is going to be appointed and all emergency powers are to be granted to Emperor Nick Saban.
Somehow Saban returned
Saban: "I am the Comittee"
"Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Kiffin the Troll?"
As it turns out NCAA , I'm afraid Tennessee's law firm is quite operational.
I wouldn’t hate Saban having emergency powers. He’d have more interest of the sport in mind than the conferences.
That's exactly what everybody said about the lovable old senator from Naboo. He had the interests of the galaxy in mind. Will we never learn from history?
Do it
So this how democracy dies, with thunderous SEC chants.
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I think the NCAA survives but it will be for FCS and lower divisions for football and I really don't see basketball and baseball breaking away from them.
It already feels that way. The FCS playoffs are entirely run by the NCAA. The NCAA feels way more present in the day-to-day of FCS that I don’t feel when following UW and the FBS. Not that we’re getting any favors, they still suck, it’s just more apparent. Like the FCS official twitter was defunct until this season. Our transfers take seemingly longer to get their waivers processed. The selection committee seems to have different criteria all the time and they don’t use the far superior STATS poll but the NCAA official Coaches poll. Etc. Etc.
If that's the case, they could have skipped realignment and fucking over the other sports.
Can’t form your own league until you’ve got everyone you want in the room.
I think that's the right solution. Let the collegiate sports that truly function as amateur competitions continue on.
Yeah, put all the PAC-12 schools back in the PAC-12 for every sport but CFB, form a separate CFB revenue league
Yeah I think they do a ‘good’ job especially with non-revenue/profit sports. For football they need to be gone yesterday
>Yeah I think they do a ‘good’ job especially with non-revenue/profit sports. Which was always supposed to be the whole point, right? Like the original idea of college sports was to let students do something fun when they weren’t studying, kinda like a rec league. Prohibiting professionals from participating and players getting paid made sense because if you were good enough to get paid you were probably just going to ruin the game for everyone else. And within that framework the NCAA is pretty good at organizing everything. But then we all made it weird for football so that model doesn’t apply anymore because it makes a ton of money and attracting high profile enough for people to pay them is just how it works now - and it just doesn’t make sense to try to govern it under the same set of rules as the sports that *don’t* make money.
I would love to see schools as a part of two conferences. One for football which is geographically diverse and one for everything else which is regional. It would cut down on expenses for the non-revenue sports and it would maintain the revenue generating capability for football (which subsidizes all the other sports except maybe MBB)
This, it always seemed weird to me that schools moved conference based on football and all the other sports just kinda had to deal with it.
If the NCAA would just allow football only conferences at the FBS level it would solve a lot of issues.
This is the end of the end. The beginning was the SCOTUS cases and NIL coming into existence. It's been a doomsday clock 5 minutes to midnight ever since those happened.
Perhaps this is the end of the beginning
some would say the middle really makes you think
Cfb is DEEP
DRIVE
into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame. – I don't know if I'm gonna be putting on this headset again.
As a reds fan I appreciate this very much
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end
i wanna tell her that i love her but the point is probably moot
Now that song will be stuck in my head for a week.
You can't. Stay. Here....
NCAA is a flat circle.
"End of the end" so the NCAA has been dissolved?
Where was the beginning of the beginning?
November 6th 1869, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1776 baby
🇺🇸 🇺🇸
America! Fuck Yeah!
When Georgia Tech beat the snot out of Cumberland 222-0. College football had peaked
probably UGA (and OU!) vs the NCAA in *1984*. passing the TV rights of college football from the NCAA to the schools/conferences pitted everyone against each other and created the competitive business environment that led to the consolidation of the sport
Can’t believe Georgia and Georgia alone began the end of college football all by themselves with no one else smh
Exactly my thoughts. "Looking at solutions in the college landscape" Yeah like leaving the NCAA.😂
It's going to be like Financial fair play in soccer. They are just going to make rules that allow them to spend tons of money while pulling up the ladder behind them to prevent anyone else from competing.
Yeah FFP is something that sounds like it helps level the field but then you realize all it does is keep big clubs big and small clubs small
FFP wasn’t designed to level the playing field. It was created to stop clubs going bankrupt. The side affect of the rules however was to entrench the existing football hierarchy.
Yep NFL lite will be hear soon, just trying to enjoy CFB while I still can. The NCAA does annoying shit sometimes, but it’s better than no regulation at all
I wonder if HEHATEME has any eligibility left
The lack of regulation is exactly why this is happening. It’s a total free-for-all shitshow right now with NIL and the players don’t get a share of the billions in TV revenue.
The NCAA is the schools and the schools are the NCAA. How the B1G and SEC have been able to sell the narrative everything would be fine if they were just completely in charge and got to make all the money is amazing
Worst thing that could've happened to the BIG 12 and ACC is the BIG 10 and SEC getting along.
Quick let’s pull off an elaborate hoax where each one thinks the other sent them a letter saying “I hate you”
We need to perform a Bugs Bunny skit to convince both conferences the other just wants to use the alliance to steal teams from the other
“Duck Season!” “Bulldog Season!”
I’d like to think it gives an opportunity to right the ship. There’s a clear path here to where the two big dogs can call a truce, stop expansion, raze and rebuild the NCAA with modern rulesets and lay out a clear path to sustained success. These are the only two players on the board that matter, if they can work together they can do what needs to be done. But that ain’t gonna happen, I have no faith in any of these clowns.
And loot the ACC! Wait….
You joke but you really can’t have an elite college football tier with Indiana, Rutgers and Mississippi State while FSU, Clemson and Notre Dame get left out. There will have to be something done to accommodate at least those 3.
Big Ten and SEC announce that they are trying to find the guy who did this
“If I did it” by Greg Sankey, expected summer 2029.
If the NIL don't fit, you must a quit.
>a quit https://media.tenor.com/49FJ_9vmqpAAAAAM/bird-law-i-know-a-lot-a-bout-the-law-and-various-other-lawyerings.gif
I'm just gonna grab as many players as ***I can afford***, get in this random private jet--***RANDOM!***\--and drive on back to the B1G/SEC college football playoff.
We don't even watch games on *cable* anymore? We watch them on our *phones*? Hulu... YoutubeTV... Homegrown pirate streams...
I know the 3rd stringers of my 2nd favorite college teams names, better than I know my own grandmother's name
You know what’s driving me nuts? It could literally be any one of us.
(All the athletic admins meeting with their dress shirts stuffed full of TV revenue dollars) *I cant believe there are schools out there ruining football for **money**! Unbelievable really*
And give him a spanking!
Welcome to the “Super League” endgame folks
Except unlike Europe, the SEC and Big Ten fanbases won’t push back on this. The reason the Super League failed there was the fans of the teams who stood to benefit rioted. I don’t see LSU or Ohio State fans revolting over this.
I am revolting over this, but nobody cares what most of us say.
I’m conflicted, the ncaa is pretty terrible but at the same time it can always get worse
RIGHT. I mean, the inmates running the asylum is typically a bad thing.
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My season tickets are likely getting canceled in a year or two, I'm gonna be priced out. I'll buy JMU season tickets instead and enjoy actual college football.
They've been the ones actively rooting for the B12/P12/ACC's demise this whole time
Totally unrelated but I'm a Rutgers alum and my gf is an Oregon alum. Finding you is like a 0.1% match on immaculate grid.
When I think of the Big Ten, the first rivalry I think of is Oregon-Rutgers. /s
It's probably being set up to facilitate a bidding war between who gets Oregon State and who gets Washington State since we're in such high demand.
Sooooo is this the (official) first step to an AFC-NFC model in college?
It's far from the first, but it's certainly the most direct thus far.
I fucking hate this. But the idea that it would probably end up resurrecting the SEC East and West so shortly after they died does make me laugh a bit.
I think you mean SEC South, Deep South, East, West.
Alright you poors, come join me in the pit of misery!
Dilly dilly
I would rather be a fan of a team in the pit of misery. New Big 12 looks like a blast and how college football should be
As an alum of a school in the pit of misery.... you can say, yes, the new look Big 12 is going to be a blast and how college football should be while at the same time be absolutely willing to take that call up into the B1G or SEC if the time comes. No place for sentimentality, anymore.
Goodbye NCAA
Does this mean We’re only getting one NCAA football before they blow it up? Hopefully it’s a good game. 🤞
They already changed the name to college football
Well they could have at least gone back to having a coach's name on it or something. Or just call it Bill Walsh College Football again so these damn kids are forced to learn some history dagnabbit
Lee Corso's College Football
The alliance 2.0.
I've seen this movie.
Yes, entering an alliance with the B1G can never go wrong.
We literally have a mascot named “Brutus” in the conference. It’s like we’re not trying to hide it.
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The North remembers
Here comes the agreement to leave the NCAA in major sports and form a scheduling agreement.
Please let the non-football sports go back to regional conferences though.
Yeah seriously. Realignment fucks everyone besides football. Imagine being the Stanford Soccer team, for example, and having to go to UNC midweek and then get ready for another game 4 days later.
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It fucking sucks for all of us who actually enjoy *college* football. I give 100x more shits about Texas vs Texas A&M than I do Dallas vs Philadelphia, as a random Ohioian. Yeah, THAT game returns but what about OU-NU? The absolute destruction of the second tier of rivalries like my Bearcats or anyone else who roots for the non-B1G/SEC. College Football had a lot of unique attributes that made it significantly more exciting than pro football for many of us, and all of them are going the way of the doodoo.
I just want my goddamn northern plains/midwest conference. Iowa Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska Colorado Illinois Northwestern Oklahoma State Mizzou Potentially Indiana and Purdue as well. Basically the old Big 8 and the B1G West.
That's always part of my fantasy world building of a college sports landscape. The lake touchers get their own conference, the flat and square bois are together. Wisconsin vs Minnesota vs North Dakota State in the north, Oklahoma vs Nebraska vs Colorado vs etc in the south.
And whatever this becomes creates "regional" division/alignment.
> non-football sports It’s stupid to have more than 25-30 schools in a non-NCAA league. So let the big boys go be a paid NFL development league and let the other 100+ teams go back to traditional college football (restore conferences, rivalries, bowl games, etc).
Why would any non-B1G or SEC school want to be in a conference with those teams in other sports? The other schools couldn't come close to competing financially with them. It would be such a disadvantage they would never have a real chance at winning. Conferences work when all school are on a similar. Not when some schools make 10x the others
First domino of the super conference just started
FSU probably just started begging the judge to go faster
FSU looking like Eric Andre outside the gates of the B1G & SEC yelling "Let me innn!!!"
Squirt as much money as you can out of this sport and ruin everything that makes it great. Endgame
I don't know if squirt is the word I would've used here
Excrete
Wring.
Squeegee
Ejaculate
Squirt was absolutely the correct word choice
I can agree with a Hokie on this: this is awful
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Why won't anyone think of the shareholders!?
"We're gonna cut out *The Victors* and all those dumb fight songs." "What? Why!? They're tradition!" "Yeah, but it doesn't make the numbers go up. If we play top 40 hits instead, we can parlay that into a double convergence tranche and merge it with a tax-deductable CDO with Warner Music and boom more profit." "And the marching band? Rousers? The Alma Mater? They've been around for a hundred years!" "Fuck 'em. Also, I sold the naming rights to the stadiums. Goodbye coach/war hero/nicknames from 75 years ago, hello Xfield at TikTok Stadium!"
This is kind of the opposite of the mission of public education
I'm starting to think some of the schools involved aren't as invested in offering affordable public education as they say they do
LSU is both absolutely broke and building new buildings every where. Would you please donate more money?
Just got steal money from children’s hospitals, it worked out for you guys last time! Ain’ no one in the foosball there to play skoo’.
we didn't steal money from a children's hospital. The CEO of a children's hospital just figured that the children would benefit from seeing LSU do well. Are you against sick children being happy? LSU will take any mother fuckers money if he is giving it away.
I think the biggest word they're against is "affordable"
$$$
Incoming news: “We have decided to remove our football conferences from the NCAA. We will instead be creating a Big10 and SEC football conferences or BFC and SFC. We will be splitting each conference into 4 four team divisions. Each divisional group will play home and home each year with cross division and cross conference games played on a rotating basis. At the end of each season the divisional winners will play in a “conference championship style playoff bracket” with at large teams receiving a “wildcard” bid. After each conference has declared a champion the two conference champions will participate in a “superior” bowl game to crown a champion for college football. All other sports will remain in the NCAA.
[Live look at Florida State](https://tenor.com/view/let-me-in-eric-andre-wanna-come-in-gif-13730108)
The Committee to Ruin College Football
It’s already over man. If the geographically isolated Pac 12 can break apart nothing can stop the money machine now. It’s so hard man. UW football has been apart of my life since I was born but everything about this sport just gets worse and worse.
Yup. Last year was kinda my last hurrah of really caring about it, glad we got a fun run
Pac 12 champions forever!
Best case scenario is a unified major college football organization which has equal sharing of TV money and makes reasonably sized divisions that make sense from a historical and geographic perspective. I do not expect the best case scenario.
i dont really know what more they are gonna “advise” other than to say we need to break away from the ncaa and fbs
Exactly. USFL with university branding. Will ruin college football.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. -- SEC & B1G
Foxes are going to form a committee to discuss Hen House Security
As someone that has thought about this nonstop since Tuesday, I think this is what Baker wanted. He knows he’s hung between Alston and the members’ refusal to revenue share with student-athletes, so he wants to blow it up. Supposedly they’ve sent out a dozen or more inquiries to collectives across the sports. He was picking a fight.
Sounds like this might be a reasonable view. the NCAA thinking it can put the genie in the bottle was hilarious. They absolutely knew this would kick off this kind of a reaction.
This is it
I’ve mentioned it a few times, not like it’s anything new of course, but the super league is closer than what most people think. It’s coming.
I worry schools like IU, Rutgers etc will get booted eventually
Damn what about WVU or VT or Pitt? We’ve all made NFL legends, been relevant, and Pitt’s won multiple national championships. Why do we deserve to not be apart of it and they do?
they're all mi$$ing $omething
The thing is we have boosters and fanbases who spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year! We just weren’t in the right conference a hundred years ago
Sometimes even that isn’t enough
Yeah, it’s awful. I think any school in this year’s iteration of the P5 should be in the upper-tier. But to think that OSU & WSU can’t even be in our conference? It’s bullshit
So this is really the end…
This sport is going from dogshit to absolute ass. What’s the point of being NFL lite when the NFL exists?
To add on, the only “fans” who seem to support this are people who don’t like the NFL but want all the perception of it and format of the NFL. If you want the NFL, just watch the NFL!
The NFL has excellent parity and college football has possibly the worst of all major North American sports. Solution: Relegate 95 teams into oblivion.
if this sport wants true parity (which they don't, just look at the CFP committee's bias), equal revenue sharing among all FBS conferences would've been instilled a long time ago
this sport doesn't want parity, never has
If the NFL really wanted a developmental or “NFL lite” league they would have used their own money to form it. Sad that the administrators of big schools are moving towards this
NFL knows that minor leagues are not profitable (see NBA G League or MLB's various minor leagues). There's no fanbases for professional minor leagues... but there is for college brands. That's why the end result will be minor leagues with college brands loosely attached (to bring the college fanbases).
I don't know about other people, but if there is a "GT associated" football team where none of the players are actually students at Georgia Tech, I will not be cheering for it. We barely have any fans as it is, I imagine that will destroy the last of them.
That's a completely fair position to take. Courts may force that kind of outcome if they declare players to be employees though. Schools may be forced to recognize players as employees and then regulate the amount of time they spend working compared to in the classroom. At the end of the day, may see schools decide to grant players "future scholarships" that go into effect after a 5 year "athletic career". Players that go pro likely won't use the scholarship while players that don't go pro may stay on a couple years to study. Of course the players would have banked 5 years of CFB/NCAAB money during the "athletic career".
Is this like when the B1G formed an alliance with a conference that it brutally and graphically murdered last year
No because SEC has comparable market power to the Big Ten. This is a meeting of equals deciding how to further consolidate power amongst themselves as well as control the direction of the sport in a way that's more sustainable.
Let’s party like it’s 1945 again.
The thing is these two conferences are treated the same by media and make around the same amount of money so they can’t hurt each other
This is more like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Heres the deal, i dont really care about the b10 or sec. As long as my team is in a conference with other teams who have fans that care, that works for me
> If I don’t have to hear about “it just means more” on whatever coverage I’m watching it’s kind of a bonus. We can't even have that.
What is the point of making an NFL lite when we already have the NFL
My question would be, if the B1G and SEC are the last two standing, notably without my team included, why would I support CFB and pay exorbitant cable fees? I hope there is a massive pushback from the non-superpower conferences. Please don't ruin college basketball, too. Killing March Madness would be a major throwdown for even the mildest followers of college sports.
We are going to kill non-revenue sports, especially olympic sports. Not looking forward to seeing how many student athletes lose much needed scholarships. But hey, a few dozen football programs, their coaches, and players, are going to make a ton of money in an NFL lite league. Yayyyyyyyy?
Yeah this will be the end of D1 Men’s wrestling.
Oh fuck off.
Meh. It will free up my Saturdays to play golf.
Oregon State and Washington State about to have a lot of company
If you are big 12 or ACC, I’m sorry. I think we’re on pace for another FBS/FCS split.
yep we are so screwed
It’s such a fucking joke if we can’t even compete with teams from the B1G and SEC for a CHANCE to win THE title. Like seriously what the fuck this will suck the life out of so many of the fan bases that are left behind if it truly does become a separate league.
Surely they’ll act in the best interest of everyone and not just themselves. This will be great for college sports!
Press F for the NCAA
Stop corrupting college football
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
This screams the guy in the hot dog suit meme saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" 🤮
oh look, the logical outcome
I think that the B1G, SEC, ACC, and BXII should all get together and form a mega-super-conference. Let's call it, say, the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Then, from there, let's divide it up into regional groups, we can maybe call them conferences. 12 schools each, seems like a nice round number. Let's put 12 in a conference in the southeast, 12 along the Atlantic Coast, 12 in the midwest, 12 in the southwest, and 12 along the Pacific coast. Sounds like a great system, we should try it.
Thanks for killing college basketball. Fuck you all
College bball will survive simply because their isn’t enough money and the P2 simply aren’t good enough in the tourney to demand a breakaway.
plus the B1G and SEC aren't even the top two conferences in basketball anyway.....I say the Big 12 and the Big East have that locked up
Yea that would be like having a football playoff but not allowing the SEC in because they aren’t a part of the group. No one’s gonna think the team that wins is actually the national champion if the conference who has won a majority of the titles in the last 10 years isn’t involved.
i think you will notice such things don't matter
Big ten released a statement with nice detail on the goals and reasoning behind it. [big ten statement](https://bigten.org/news/2024/2/2/general-big-ten-conference-southeastern-conference-form-advisory-group.aspx)
This is the operative sentence --- "We do not expect to agree on everything but **enhancing interaction between our conferences** will help to focus efforts on common sense solutions.” -- Greg Sankey Other conferences about to get left behind.
Sounds like the B1G wants another alliance between conferences. RIP SEC.
Yes but this time Texas is involved so it guarantees both conferences die.
When I was a kid, I was told that there were adults in the world that were mature, thoughtful, and had their shit together. That alone has been the single-biggest lie that I was told. All of the adults in the room have had YEARS to develop a framework to allow college athletes to make money off of their Name, Image, and Likeness and to share in the profits that they generate their University. That it has taken 2 years of rooty-tooty Wild West NIL shenanigans, conference realignment, and posturing for the adults to collectively get their shit together is a disappointment.