I read a version of this sometime last week. In that one, it said that the 70 teams would actually be more like a group of 40 and a group of 30 (top 16, next 24, next 30). The relegation model was that the lower 30 could move into the middle 24, and the middle 24 could move into the lower 30...but that the top 16 are the top 16 and they don't change. The conference structure would be nominally maintained for scheduling and CFP seeding, but would not be relevant to the 16/24/30 tiers.
At what point does the NCAA recuse themselves from being the/ a governing body over something which they exert no power or authority?
fck man, I didn't think it could get worse that "70 team super league" until you laid that structure out.
What I just don't get is WTF do the big conferences (SEC and B1G) want? They already have shit tons more money than anyone else. What is still broken? Do the SEC teams really want to forego their annual OOC schedules of cupcakes? We haven't even gotten to our first season of the expanded playoffs and these F-ers are already plotting the demise of the FBS as we know it? Sickening.
Yeah, the article was pretty cynical about it. After laying out the structure, it said something like "Clearly, nobody is going to go along with this. Except...everybody will. Because if they fight it, the top 16 programs will grab another 8 and keep all of the money for themselves."
You really don't get it? They're burying the competition even further. Making certain that their new tier in college football will be filled with future NFL draft picks and have boatloads of money to fund it. More money means a guy like Ashton Jeanty at BSU does not exist in the future, and when the SEC or B1G meets some piddly school in the CFP it's a blowout.
People bitched for years about the ncaa and its rules. Now that they have been sued into irrelevance we are seeing the results. It will only get worse
Kinda agree, but the schools with high end FB money will also have high end BK money.
They only bitched because the rules were applied arbitrarily.
Oh no stalker - uh I mean Gibby - my feeble brain just doesn't get it. Seems to me that the current upper tier is already filled with NFL draft picks, which means exactly what other than that they are the already the cream of the college crop? Is there some kickback to schools that have high draft picks from the NFL that I am unaware of?
It is the continuation of decades of the top 30 (or so) schools increasing their already huge advantage over the remaining 100 or so. It was never fair, but every new rule change tilts the field even further. In my mind it is groups of utterly obsessed alumni and boosters that are completely willing to destroy the fabric of college football to give their team a greater advantage. Obviously this aligns completely with the wishes of the networks, who want a Saturday version of the NFL. The administrators are really not powerful enough to stop it, even if they wanted to. Honestly, it is probably for the best and will help clarify the future of the sport for schools like WSU, the Mountain West, and virtually every school in the North East and Mid Atlantic Region. With high school football dying a rapid death, its time to move on. We use to have a boxing team and a wrestling team, but now we don't. We might be able to compete at a D2 or D3 level in football, or not even worry about it. We won't have a D1 football team in Pullman, the same way we don't have an NFL team in Pullman.
Considering what CFB has turned into and the direction it’s heading, I think a growing number of people at a growing number of schools would be ok with not having a team at their school.
It’s not the size of the category, it’s the motion of the storm surge (spoken like a true category 2).
There’s no reason to laugh at category 2. If it hits the right place, it can still cause real damage and severe localized flooding.
Far more than 2/3 of the nation are pretty much out of playoff contention, ever. There is nothing in the Northeast where actually most of the population is located. Nothing in the Mountain West. I'm not convinced it will survive in the West Coast. I think it would be hard to come up with more than 10 states with a team that has a real shot year in and year out. Really, the midwest is just Ohio state, Michigan and Notre Dame. I would say 4/5 of the nation is on the sidelines, whether they realize it or not.
Omfg, they have lawyers to prevent collusion? Really? Like everything they've done for the past two years isn't colluding? Explain to me exactly how consolidating all the money and power to the only two players in the room isn't colluding?Latest news from the B1G and SEC. This actually sounds kind of promising, for now.
"... The notion that college football is broken -- what we do is broken -- is just not right.
Sankey and Petitti agreed they both want to see the 12-team CFP field unfold before they make any determinations about what could change when the next contract begins in 2026."
SEC, B10: No private funds; football not 'broken'
SEC and Big Ten leaders showed a united front, as any big changes that would include private equity are unlikely to garner national support without their backing.www.espn.com
Well read what you want into it. I read it as kind of a "F-off ex-Disney execs", everything is fine for now. Which it isn't, but at least they want to let things play out for a while before sticking the pitchfork in further.
smoke and mirrors.
