I've always wondered why in the hell the NCAA lost control of its football post season, when it was originally started to oversee college football. I guess this makes as much sense as all this conference musical chairs stupidity. But I digress.
If the NCAA wasn't smart enough to own college football, someone othe single entity should be. This patchwork of conferences and the competing, even contradictory needs of all the other NCAA sports vs. football, simply must stop. It seems like time to model College Football after English soccer, but with the playoff component the Premier League doesn't have.
- No more conferences, just one A league for the top competitors, and a B league for the rest
- The top X teams play for the right to make playoffs and win a championship, while bottom feeders fight to avoid relegation to the B league
- The B league teams compete like hell to get into the A league
- Schedules are fluid each year, based on who is in and how they finish it each division
- Be good enough to compete in the A league and get a certain pay out of 10x
- Not good enough to compete in A league - get a certain pay out of 5x or 2.5x, or similar from B league
Cal and Stanford are in the B league and want to improve for more money - which is the situation they face as it is - then they can win in the B league and get there.
Every year by definition a few will go up and a few will go down.
This will make the whole thing so much more interesting and put everyone on a much more level playing field, without impacting the NCAA sports.
There would be such massive TV interest and enough games for all the networks and streaming services to get it on. Every football program would be independent from their other sports and any concept of a conference as we know it. The NCAA sports can then all form their regional alliances and everything will make sense!
I should add that the House v. NCAA case is likely going to lead to the NCAA members being forced to pay athletes as employees. That is going to create a giant incentive for a new entity to run college football without the baggage the NCAA carries.
If the NCAA wasn't smart enough to own college football, someone othe single entity should be. This patchwork of conferences and the competing, even contradictory needs of all the other NCAA sports vs. football, simply must stop. It seems like time to model College Football after English soccer, but with the playoff component the Premier League doesn't have.
- No more conferences, just one A league for the top competitors, and a B league for the rest
- The top X teams play for the right to make playoffs and win a championship, while bottom feeders fight to avoid relegation to the B league
- The B league teams compete like hell to get into the A league
- Schedules are fluid each year, based on who is in and how they finish it each division
- Be good enough to compete in the A league and get a certain pay out of 10x
- Not good enough to compete in A league - get a certain pay out of 5x or 2.5x, or similar from B league
Cal and Stanford are in the B league and want to improve for more money - which is the situation they face as it is - then they can win in the B league and get there.
Every year by definition a few will go up and a few will go down.
This will make the whole thing so much more interesting and put everyone on a much more level playing field, without impacting the NCAA sports.
There would be such massive TV interest and enough games for all the networks and streaming services to get it on. Every football program would be independent from their other sports and any concept of a conference as we know it. The NCAA sports can then all form their regional alliances and everything will make sense!
I should add that the House v. NCAA case is likely going to lead to the NCAA members being forced to pay athletes as employees. That is going to create a giant incentive for a new entity to run college football without the baggage the NCAA carries.
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