You were countering my point, but I agree with everything you said. The current system is not perfect, seeped in greed, and already structured by a class system strata.
This would do nothing to rectify the problems with the current way things are run ...in fact it only serves the bellies of the Power 5 (and a few others) and continues to break the system further.
I agree with another poster in this thread who said that eventually this will get paired down to 30 schools ...who will basically be a pro league that no other school can touch.
#1: Is that what we want Universities to do? Become a 2nd pro league? Is that the priority?
#2: Syracuse probably gets left out of that equation. Would you still be for it, then?
#3: If it's possible that Syracuse could eventually get pushed out of an elite league of schools, then why should any of us be for a group of 65-80 schools separating themselves now?
It is a dicey thing for the P5 schools. They want all the money and all the control for college football but they need G5 and FCS schools to fill out their schedules, so most end up with winning records and can go to bowl games, give their coaching staffs big raises and make their fans feel good about themselves.
I don't know if G5 schools can survive if they have no access to the money generated by playoff system, no access to the big paydays for playing P5 teams on the road, and no access or almost no access to TV money. The same applies to FCS schools, perhaps to a lesser degree.
The trick is to give them just enough to survive, but not enough where they could someday pose a serious threat to the P5 schools.
The NCAA was a necessary evil to keep the government out of college athletics and ensure a relatively level playing field for everyone. But it has failed its mission so badly that it is close to useless. It is a vestige from another time, when people cared about college athletes really being amateurs, it is corrupt, horribly managed and has lost its sense of mission. It can't be salvaged.
I don't think much will change for football when the P5 schools leave the NCAA. As I said, they still need the G5 and FCS schools and will give them enough to keep them around.
For basketball, it sounds like the P5s might have their own basketball tournament. I blame this on UConn. They wreck everything they join.
It might mean more money for the P5 schools in the short term but I think we will end up with two tournaments competing with each other at the end of each season, neither with the level of interest or excitement that results when everyone plays together. I hope the P5 schools don't go down this road.
How much money is enough? Don't kill college basketball because you hate the NCAA. Throw the smaller conferences a bone and leave the one shining good thing in college athletics alone.
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