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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4260820, member: 1145"] Something is going to happen with Major College Football and the NCAA. There are powerful elements in both the SEC and BT, and perhaps at SC and maybe Oregon (and I think among ND boosters), that want a small separation group to go full semi-pro. They will need at least 30 schools and probably would not want more than 48 (SEC and BT, in effect, becoming 24 teams each, and serving as the AFC and NFC of semi-pro CFB). The other main option is that the P5 will lead to the creation of another NCAA division which will have major autonomy (i.e. the NCAA would not have the right to order us to play division schedules in order to have a CCG, we would set rules regarding NIL, number of assistants, number of recruiting visits, etc.). That is still the college student athlete system. The SEC and BT people who crave semi-pro do not squarely face the fact that in such a system, they will replace the MAC and Sunbelt and CUSA, etc. as bottom feeders with the bottom halves of their conferences. No longer will the SEC be Top Dog conference looking way down at that bunch and definitely down at the ACC and Pac and Big 12. It is not just the highest esteemed academic institutions that would feel that in a semi-pro league. So would Arkansas and Ole Miss and Miss ST and SoCar and UK, etc.There best interests in football, assuming they wish to compete and not just bank more money, is to oppose a move to semi-pro, arguing instead for autonomy for the P5 to have its own division. I would argue then that the new division should have the right to its own oversight and full control of any other sports it desires. That would mean it would have its own basketball tournament. And yes, that would mean that the biggest basketball programs would become more valuable because they no longer would be carrying at least 15-20 leagues that should be in D2. Of course, for that to work best, and for the new division to maximize baseball (and it likewise would increase the value of the CWS), it would need to be all 10 D1/FBS leagues, as well as the BE, and probably the A10, MVC, and WCC. [/QUOTE]

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