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[QUOTE="Shenexon, post: 3919404, member: 129"]
I love watching SU football & basketball, in person as often as I can. I’ll keep watching no matter who they play. At one time, college sports was more closely linked to the universities than with the business they’ve become. The products and the money they provide now outweigh any connection to the universities. As several have said, it’s a business.

I think I’m coming to believe it might be best to have college football divide into two groups: 1. A prep league for the NFL complete with a draft to inject parity 2. A league of schools that still want student athletes. Those kids that want to play in the prep league wouldn’t be required to go to school. The universities that want to be part of the prep league would essentially become franchise owners of NFL minor league teams. Two super leagues with divisions similar to the NFL make sense.

Reshuffling “conferences” every decade to try and squeeze more money out of the same entities just seems counter productive. If it’s really only a business for many schools, quit trying to pretend it’s not. For those schools remaining, form regional conferences that are truly tied to the universities and educational interests.

College football may have outgrown “student” athletes. Many of those athletes leave school early anyhow. Why make them go to school at all if they’re primarily professional athletes? Times change and it’s not unreasonable to change with them. It’s time for real change I think. Reshuffling does little good in the long run. Let’s move on...
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