How about the top 64 football teams form their own NCAA division for an 8 team playoff. Everybody else in FBS realign for the remaining bowls. Even put the service academies and say Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, and Tulane into an academic football group.
Actually, the way things are going, I’d just about suggest that the rest of the NCAA clean itself up by telling the ACC, SEC, Big 10 and Pac 12 to take a hike. New rule: if your athletic recruits don’t meet your admission standards, they’re out. The SJWs would scream exclusion, but is it better to send the athletes to non-existent courses, just so you can claim to have black scholars?
Bye-bye North Carolina. Hit the road Ohio State. On your way, UCLA. Excuse yourself, Syracuse. To the prison cells with you, Penn State. Kansas, Kentucky, quit calling yourselves universities and admit you’re an NBA rookie league.
It’d be interesting to see if schools like Notre Dame, Duke, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Northwestern, USC, Stanford, etc., choose the Big 5 whores or the new real-student-athlete NCAA, but I’m not betting on them making the principled call.
If they did bust up the NCAA, it’d be fun guessing where the decent schools go if they join the student-athlete schools over the training-league schools
Stanford, BYU, USC, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, Notre Dame? For basketball only, add Gonzaga, St. Mary’s, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount? That would be a fun conference!
Would the ACC split? Duke, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Virginia, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, BC go scholars while FSU, NC, NC state, Louisville, Miami, Pittsburgh, Syracuse go for cash? If the ACC split, would they take in new teams to join the whores? Temple? Connecticut? Memphis? Cincinnati? If Miami didn’t join the whores, would South Florida and Central Florida have their shot at the big time with the whores? Or would even the whores say, “nah, you’re just not built for porn.” Or would they actually figure that staying in the scholarly side of things actually make them look good academically?