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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 4554931, member: 3609"]
There are Mexican soccer teams that are owned by universities there (the Pumas in Mexico City and the Tigres in Nuevo Laredo are the best known), just like the Mara family owns the NY Giants.  The players aren't students.  This is the model.  I've long believed that the ultimate goal for Clemson, Florida State, and possibly Miami; the SEC minus Vanderbilt; at the very least Ohio State and Michigan from the B1G; the Big XII with the possible exception of TCU; and Southern Cal is to have a setup in which their players do not have to attend class.  If (and getting closer with each new development like NIL to "when" IMO) that happens, they will claim that they no longer play NCAA football and that GORs don't apply to them.  Under some conference by-laws, schools that don't play football are expelled.  The GORs could very well go away when conferences vote to disband.  ESPN  and Fox will be more than happy to let the conferences do that and terminate the contracts in order to pursue the rights of the new league.  ND gets only $10 million instead of $30 million per year from the ACC TV contract, which gives a general idea the non-football part of the contracts are worth about a third.

Oh, and sorry, Duke.  It will be all or nothing with football, both basketballs, and baseball/softball.  You won't be allowed to pick and choose sports.
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