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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“They’ve already destroyed college football with the transfer portal and the NIL.”
The transfer portal has provided a means by which for college football players to play for a team that provides them with the best opportunities and the NIL has provided these athletes earn money like any other hard working American.
How is that destruction?
It’s turned college football into an NFL farm system.
All of the traditions that made college football great are gone.
Here is your super league and it would not consist of Michigan v. Ohio State every week”
National Division:
Ohio State
Michigan
Penn State
Notre Dame
Clemson
Florida State
Miami (FL)
North Carolina
American Division:
Texas
USC
Oklahoma
Alabama
Auburn
Nebraska
Texas A&M
LSU
Ohio State plays each team in the National Division once a year and four teams from the American Division.
Texas plays each team in the American Division, and four teams in the National Division each year.
Are they there to trade their athletic skills to pay for an education or simply there to show off their athletic skills and education is a minor concern?
Are universities platforms to show off athletics with a side activity of education or an educational institution with a sideline of athletic entertainment?
If it’s all about athletic skills, then the pro football & basketball leagues ought to foot the entire bill and provide a minor league feeder system like baseball does!
Your “super league” is missing three teams that finished in the AP Top 10 at the end of the 2023 season (Washington, Ole Miss and Missouri).
I still see lots of tradition in games in College Station, and Ann Arbor.
The stands are packed with more than 100,000 people, wearing their team colors, singing fight songs, watching football and checking out the cheerleaders.
Ok, so maybe most do not check out the Texas A&M cheerleaders, but they clearly have that covered in Ann Arbor.
How much money does the NFL put into their minor league?
How much money do the overpaid NBAers give back to their schools that provided everything to make them successful?
These proposals are just an effort to keep Vanderbilt from humiliating Alabama like we did in 1969.
“Your “super league” is missing three teams that finished in the AP Top 10 at the end of the 2023 season (Washington, Ole Miss and Missouri).”
Selection into the super league has nothing to do with rankings from one season, but rather who brings in the most revenue, and the University of Mississippi, and Missouri do not bring in money like Texas, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia, Notre Dame, and LSU.
Just like anyone of us who selected a college and selected a profession, college athletes, make decisions that they believe will be best for their self-interest.
That is the American way.
You didn’t answer my questions!
“How are you measuring revenue?”
Revenue is the total amount of money coming into a university’s athletic program.
They should have a Premier Leauge of 24 schools and a Secondary Leaugue of 24 more schools & the rest try to compete to get into the Secondary league.
Every year you have a scoring system based on the last 3 years where the 3 with the most losses points (not counting playoffs) the previous 4 years get kicked out and the Secondary champion & 2 other highest wins points get put into the Premier League.
For the Secondary League you could have the rotation be 4 instead of 3. That way this Secondary Leaugue would have an annual turnover of 7 - 3 up to Premier, 4 down to 1A, and 7 incoming (3 from Premier, 4 from 1A)
The division 1A should have 4 bowl games where the top 8 of wins for the previous 4 years in 1A get to play & the winners go to the Secondary Leaugue the next season.
No body will want to see Michigan play in 2024 after the third week of the season. If they win 7 games it will be highly successful given the disruptions Harbaugh left them holding.
That’s Phil Knight, he throws massive money at UO, both directly and in facilities. 2021 was half a billion straight cash. In 2016 there was another half billion to build the Knight Campus. Probably close to another half a billion over the years with various other buildings, renovations and straight cash.
We still have the PAC2 with Washington State and Oregon State. Nice little small microconference.
“Are they there to trade their athletic skills to pay for an education or simply there to show off their athletic skills and education is a minor concern?”
The athletes are there to exercise their freedom to make choices that are in their own economic interset.
“Are universities platforms to show off athletics with a side activity of education or an educational institution with a sideline of athletic entertainment?”
Universities are platforms for showcasing athletics as long as it brings in significant revenue and enhances the institution’s brand. If athletic entertainment generates substantial profits through ticket sales, merchandise, media rights, and sponsorships, then it becomes a valuable component of the university’s overall business strategy.
“If it’s all about athletic skills, then the pro football & basketball leagues ought to foot the entire bill and provide a minor league feeder system like baseball does!”
If a college athletic program does not turn a profit, then the program should cease to exist.
Texas, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Norte Dame, USC, and Alabama earn hundreds of millions in profits and can and should exist.
“When was the last time a school with a top football or basketball program had a Nobel prize winner? Has it ever happened? And aren’t the top academic schools in the U.S. the ones with terrible sports teams — or even no sports teams at all?”
It might surpise you that there are a number of schools with sound sports programs that have produced Nobel laureates. And depending on who you might think has a top team depends on how they draw talent, not the level of play. So remember that if they cull the herd to just a few corrals, then that’s where all the cows will be and they won’t be allowed to overstock the corral. And remember, you cutting the funding of making other corrals by funds depreciation.
Such universities that have produced Nobel laureates are Harvard, Ohio State, UC Berkley, Stanford, UCLA, Purdue, UO Washington, UO Texas, UO Wisconsin, UO Pennsylvania, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, USC...and many more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation
But if you remove the sports programs that are essential to the schools that produce academic leaders also, you are crippling their keeping their doors open and causing many to lose the opportunity to get an education and be responsible for Nobel capacity to an arbitrary determination. You’re daming the river and the first areas tha will go dry are the creeks tht also produce salmon.
wy69
I like the play-in system, but it should be based and not just wins, but revenue.
Schools with the most wins and most revenue stay in the premier league, but if there is a decline in revenue and wins, they are moved to a secondary league.
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