And so it begins ... Pac 12 commissioner wants to break from NCAA

[roguewarrior]

Maybe the answer is a “super league” of big money, big time, NIL pandering teams. Schools decide whether they want in or not, then have at it.

Everyone not willing to go in, stays with the ncaa. Re-align and drop NIL.

Players want fame and fortune… you better make it to one of the super teams. Seems rather simple, but I am by no means a student of this end of things….

[jpfalcon09]

Maybe the answer is a “super league” of big money, big time, NIL pandering teams. Schools decide whether they want in or not, then have at it.

Everyone not willing to go in, stays with the ncaa. Re-align and drop NIL.

Players want fame and fortune… you better make it to one of the super teams. Seems rather simple, but I am by no means a student of this end of things….

NIL is probably here to stay, there will be different variations of it. The B1G and SEC will be a defunct minor league for the NFL and all the top prospects will end up committing to those schools, enjoy large sums of money, then go off to the NFL. The remaining schools will offer what they can to attract the rest of the talent pool and probably maintain some resemblance of "amateur" athletics which you see today.

The loser in the end of this will be two parties:
1) High school seniors will likely see fewer scholarship opportunties as traditional college football will (in my eyes) struggle to stay relevant in the public eye.
2) The G5 programs who will need to get very creative to maintain some sort of value in this environment. The MAC and SBC have already sold their souls to ESPN. Who's to say those two won't combine and become a strictly mid-week conference so ESPN can fill airtime? Any scenario has to be on the table at the moment. The networks are ultimately going to control what happens to the 60+ other programs in college football.

[BillyLP]

Very much a long shot, but is it possible that the top 40-50 form their own semi-pro/full-on pro league separate from the NCAA and then the G5 conferences become the NCAA and enjoy a bump in success from people who don't really have interest in watching another pro league? It feels like a big part of the fandom of college sports is the amateurism of the whole thing, so maybe having a faction just go explicitly professional (the P5 schools) would be a good thing, long-term, for the other schools/conferences?

[Flipper]

Title IX is Federal...not NCAA. Splitting off from the NCAA for football will not remove the requirement to give women (whatever that is) athletes equal resources

[MarkL]

Very much a long shot, but is it possible that the top 40-50 form their own semi-pro/full-on pro league separate from the NCAA and then the G5 conferences become the NCAA and enjoy a bump in success from people who don't really have interest in watching another pro league? It feels like a big part of the fandom of college sports is the amateurism of the whole thing, so maybe having a faction just go explicitly professional (the P5 schools) would be a good thing, long-term, for the other schools/conferences?

The part about leaving the NCAA seems inevitable at this point. Part of me is genuinely excited that BG could compete for a NCAA championship under such a model. Where I worry is that I could not name any recent FCS champion where I can name all playoff participants and results plus all national championship results going back 20+ years without thinking twice. Will the NCAA national champion just be equivalent to the FCS championship? Maybe.

[jpfalcon09]

Sounds like there's rumblings of Clemson, Florida State, UNC, and Virginia joining the SEC. ESPN working on voiding their contracts with the ACC. This happens and I expect the B1G to respond in kind.

[Flipper]

Duke and North Carolina...maybe Syracuse would be fun for B1G hoops