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Message: [QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1177340, member: 2265"] Now that the NCAA has granted autonomy to the Power 5 Conferences (P5), these conferences are in a position to dominate college football beyond anything previously contemplated. The NCAA will eventually have to grant virtually complete autonomy to the P5 and along with it huge amounts of money. To me the analogy is the PGA Tour. Back in the day, the Professional Golfers Association of America was comprised of both club professionals and touring professionals – two groups with little in common and different agendas. Under threat of revolt, in 1968 the PGA split into two divisions, club pros and the Tournament Players Division, which took the name of the PGA Tour in 1975. The PGA Tour controls all of the money and is self-governing. The Pr will be mindful that they don’t have a baseball type exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act. However, as time goes by, the P5 will control the talent pool and will monopolize the big money. The first step seems to be underway already with the movement to have all P5 OOC opponents from other P5 conferences. This is huge. It will eliminate the opportunity for non P5 teams to upset P5 teams and make it virtually impossible for non P5 teams to gain recognition. It will eliminate the $500,000 level payoffs to schools to offer their teams as fodder to the big boys. Over time, the money and talent gap will grow larger and larger. Everyone hates the football national championship because it is so subjective. The P5 will have an answer to this. I would expect that the P5 will eventually create a P5 championship, which by default will be the National Championship. They can easily create a playoff system with Conference Champions. One school, determined by ranking, power index or some other method, would have a bye week. They will keep the money from a humongous TV contract. Game, set and match. Your thought? [/QUOTE]

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