Posted on 04/07/2024 8:35:00 PM PDT by Round Earther
Amid some already-historic changes around college football that include major conference realignment and an expanded playoff format, some interested parties are proposing another structural change to the sport: a so-called "Super League," according to The Athletic.
The group calls itself College Sports Tomorrow. Composed of sports executives, university presidents, and at least one NFL official, it has a plan: Take the 70 most important programs in college football, including every Power Five school and Notre Dame, and name them as permanent members of a national league.
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The SEC and the Big10 are not behind this therefore it will not happen. Just a lot of useless speculation.
“The SEC and the Big10 are not behind this therefore it will not happen.”
It’s far more narrow than that.
If Texas, Michigan, Ohio State, Georgia and Oklahoma are not behind it, it is not going to happen, and you could probably narrow that down to Texas and Michigan.
All will do whatever ESPN tells them to do. They’ll play at 3 a.m. if so directed.
basically, they have ruined all sports especially college since we still like to think these are young high character players....far, far from it....
most universities will need to cut football, maybe basketball as well....< TPTB...they've ruined it ...
look at the schedules...all these "power" conference teams fill up their schedules with small, poor schools...
if they had to play only other power 5 schools, their records would be abysmal....
Don’t bet on it.
They’ve ruined college basketball, now you hear of players who have played for 3 or 4 different schools during their tenure.
“most universities will need to cut football, maybe basketball as well....< TPTB...they’ve ruined it ...”
If your favorite college athletic program is not turning a profit, then it should be eliminated.
“look at the schedules...all these “power” conference teams fill up their schedules with small, poor schools...”
If these poor schools do not like the current system, then the should not cash the checks they receive from the major conferences and the wealthy schools.
There should be no socialism, and the poor schools living off wealth distribution from rich schools is pure socialism.
The socialist suits are doing their best to destroy college football.
This is just another brick-in-the-wall.
I have gone from loving to loathing college football. What is the point of rooting for one group of America-hating racists over another?
The TV networks control the purse strings in college football, so if they want it to happen, it will happen.
Meanwhile, our colleges graduate some of the stupidest people on earth.
Oh, LOOK!! Football!!!!!!!!!
smh
It’s not the Big Two. It’s the Two Pac or Tupac. We can get all the rappers to support us.
Capitalist suits are just as bad if all they care about is short term revenue and quarterly profits.
I agree. Having one authority in charge means they can recreate the regional conferences. There won’t be multiple organizations bidding against each other for teams on opposite sides of the country.
It’s not a gentleman’s agreement, it’s a law that pro football cannot play on Saturday due to college football. It’s part of the antitrust exemption.
When all of the kneeling for the anthem was happening I was hoping congress would revoke the anti-trust exemption.
Looking at this as a one season at a time measurement is foolish. It also will destroy programs by rerouting the competitiveness of college football and other sports to certain universities and keep them there while the less talented players will be forced to attend less academic schools for their education, until their sport becomes unaffordable.
Football builds money for books and test tubes. So with programs that will get all the airtime on ESPN and FOX, along with the lucritive contracts, will be supplying cash to the universities and will be affording the buying of the more talented players on their way to the NFL. I remember in Rudy a comment the coach made when he said they have room for 90 student athletes on their football team and all were scholorshipped and they have no more they can fund.
Look at it as what has happened with title X, only in reverse. When money was shifted within a college away from the mens’ programs to the womens’ it destoyed the lesser attended programs of the men. Sure the women got the money, but a number of established programs bit the dust.
And the fallout is ruining education as it is much bigger than people realize. Around 80 Division I programs no longer exist, affecting roughly 1,500 athletes with underfunding being the decisive factor. Furman baseball had a 125-year history. East Carolina men’s swimming won a conference title in February and a few months later no longer existed. Power Five schools — Iowa, Stanford and Minnesota — have discontinued programs.
If that day comes, as it recently has for hundreds of academic athletes this year, they are forced to transfer to a new school or give up their sport to stay on campus. Coaches lose their jobs and must move their families for the next one. And student athletes can no longer stay on campus due to money problems...dropouts. This process repeats around the country, each time beginning with an emotional team meeting that leaves athletes scrambling to adjust. So creating a system that opens this problem up, is going to be the end of colleges as their sports programs are a selling point for their future. And it also is going to obliterate the competition of our country against foreign sports programs. And a side note, how many foreign athletes will be brought in to fill player slots and kill education bennies for American born student athletes that wouldn’t make it without the funding? It all becomes money that will be rerouted to certain colleges. And if they make the program big enough, there will be no underdog coming up to beat the giant. David will never get the rock for his sling.
wy69
Looking at this as a one season at a time measurement is foolish. It also will destroy programs by rerouting the competitiveness of college football and other sports to certain universities and keep them there while the less talented players will be forced to attend less academic schools for their education, until their sport becomes unaffordable.
Football builds money for books and test tubes. So with programs that will get all the airtime on ESPN and FOX, along with the lucritive contracts, will be supplying cash to the universities and will be affording the buying of the more talented players on their way to the NFL. I remember in Rudy a comment the coach made when he said they have room for 90 student athletes on their football team and all were scholorshipped and they have no more they can fund.
Look at it as what has happened with title X, only in reverse. When money was shifted within a college away from the mens’ programs to the womens’ it destoyed the lesser attended programs of the men. Sure the women got the money, but a number of established programs bit the dust.
And the fallout is ruining education as it is much bigger than people realize. Around 80 Division I programs no longer exist, affecting roughly 1,500 athletes with underfunding being the decisive factor. Furman baseball had a 125-year history. East Carolina men’s swimming won a conference title in February and a few months later no longer existed. Power Five schools — Iowa, Stanford and Minnesota — have discontinued programs.
If that day comes, as it recently has for hundreds of academic athletes this year, they are forced to transfer to a new school or give up their sport to stay on campus. Coaches lose their jobs and must move their families for the next one. And student athletes can no longer stay on campus due to money problems...dropouts. This process repeats around the country, each time beginning with an emotional team meeting that leaves athletes scrambling to adjust. So creating a system that opens this problem up, is going to be the end of colleges as their sports programs are a selling point for their future. And it also is going to obliterate the competition of our country against foreign sports programs. And a side note, how many foreign athletes will be brought in to fill player slots and kill education bennies for American born student athletes that wouldn’t make it without the funding? It all becomes money that will be rerouted to certain colleges. And if they make the program big enough, there will be no underdog coming up to beat the giant. David will never get the rock for his sling.
wy69
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