As long as we're having speculation week...

[Headbutt]

Anyone want to venture a guess as to how this will turn out?

[tailingpermit]

14 minutes ago, Headbutt said:

Anyone want to venture a guess as to how this will turn out?

Exactly how Nick Saban tells them to.  

[halfmanhalfbronco]

Gross.

[Rocket]

23 minutes ago, Headbutt said:

Anyone want to venture a guess as to how this will turn out?

Viva Revolutions 

CFB West of the Mississippi needs to band together and tell the NCAA to kick sand.

[Headbutt]

I think this is the big split that we've all been waiting for, and some of us have been hoping for.  My biggest fear is that the non-amateur division that results will still retain control of the true amateur side of the house.

[Rocket]

IMHO the only way to increase leverage for a true natty is to separate and form a western division like the nfl now that fbs is a professional league.

[GoState99755]

1 hour ago, Headbutt said:

Anyone want to venture a guess as to how this will turn out?

 

Come on @Headbutt...you are better than this (haha).

KTD:  That "news" must be 60-80 yrs/old ¿No?

"¿3-Division?"  Last I chk'd... ¿Is the NCAA signaling contraction?we currently have 4-NCAA divisions.

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#1 - Division-IA

#2 - Division-IAA

#3- Divison II

#4 - Divison III

 

 

[Headbutt]

5 minutes ago, GoState99755 said:

 

Come on @Headbutt...you are better than this (haha).

KTD:  That "news" must be 60-80 yrs/old ¿No?

"¿3-Division?"  Last I chk'd... ¿Is the NCAA signaling contraction?we currently have 4-NCAA divisions.

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#1 - Division-IA

#2 - Division-IAA

#3- Divison II

#4 - Divison III

 

 

Don't shoot the messenger.  That was from today.

BTW, there is no D-1A and 1AA.  Just Division-1, which encompasses the FBS and FCS subdivisions.  I don't know what they're signaling, but I'm sure NIL and impending realignment have a lot to do with it.  I wouldn't be surprised to see a contraction and renaming of the FBS to those who actually can and want to participate in an arms race vs amateur athletics.  That'll be a tough row to hoe though when it comes to the oly sports and even BB.

[UNLV2001]

Wouldn't be surprised the $EC, Big10 probably ready to bail on the NCAA 

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/2021/07/25/sec-takeover-expansion-would-just-mean-more-power-wealth/8088290002/

SEC takeover: Expansion would just mean more power, wealth

The SEC signed a new $300 million deal with ESPN last year that gives the network rights to all SEC football games starting in 2024 and is expected to bump the conference's annual distribution to its members to about $68 million.

The Big 12 distributed $34.5 million per school recently, down over the previous year because of the pandemic.

A projection done by Navigate Research, which does data modeling for professional sports leagues and college conferences, for The Athletic last year had the annual distribution gap between the SEC and Big 12 at about $16 million per team per year in the SEC's favor by 2026.

The Big 12's next TV deal will pay substantially less without its flagship schools than the $574 million in 2026 that Navigate was projecting.

“That's a given,” said former Big 12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas, who stepped in to help the conference survive the last round of realignment in the early 2010s.

As the NCAA cedes power to conferences, a bigger, richer SEC led by a policy wonk such as Sankey has the potential to become the most powerful entity in college sports off the field, too.

“The SEC is in a position to lead in whatever this transformation is in college athletics,” Bjork said. “And so that's why you're seeing the interest of others wanting to join.”

[FresnoFacts]

 

From the NCAA Blog link:

"This is not about tweaking the model we have now," NCAA President Mark Emmert said. "This is about wholesale transformation so we can set a sustainable course for college sports for decades to come. We need to stay focused on the thing that matters most — helping students be as successful as they can be as both students and athletes."

The committee will also propose a new system of governance and rules enforcement that further contemplates the role of national oversight and places appropriate responsibility at the school and conference levels.

 

 

[Someone Else]

2 hours ago, FresnoFacts said:

 

From the NCAA Blog link:

"This is not about tweaking the model we have now," NCAA President Mark Emmert said. "This is about wholesale transformation so we can set a sustainable course for college sports for decades to come. We need to stay focused on the thing that matters most — helping students be as successful as they can be as both students and athletes."

The committee will also propose a new system of governance and rules enforcement that further contemplates the role of national oversight and places appropriate responsibility at the school and conference levels.

 

 

""We need to stay focused on the thing that matters most — helping students be as successful as they can be as both students and athletes."""

I've got a great idea to help them with this but they'd never go with it because my idea would sound like socialism. (And really who would want to share evenly?). But, yeah, it's about the students.  What BS.

 

 

[Headbutt]

It would also change college football in a way that the SEC couldn't tolerate.