What is your point? You're comparing for-profit organizations with not-for-profit organizations that I expect would have calling.
Your point seems to that everyone is exactly alike in their behaviors. We know for a fact that isn't true.
What boils my blood about super-conferences
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Your point seems to that everyone is exactly alike in their behaviors. We know for a fact that isn't true.
I’ve been thinking about the idea of a super league for a few years now and this is what I see the “end game” being. The whole point of the biggest brands consolidating their power is so that they no longer have to drag the “bottom dwellers” along with them. Add enough programs to a conference and suddenly they have the votes to start kicking out the Vanderbilts of the world.
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If only Pitt would have followed this premise in the mid to late 80's.
I better stop here. My wife gets pissed when I start cussing around the kids.
I think there are 130 Division 1 FBS schools. 64 P5 teams plus Notre Dame. I think it's the other 65 they mostly see as problematic & a money drain. And that 130 number has probably grown from about 110 twenty years ago,
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I have said this for years. In the past 23 years it went from 106 when I was a HS senior to now 130. In the past decade liberty Costco Carolina, Georgia St, Georgia Southern, Old Dominion all FCS powers made the jump to FBS, where no one was going to ever going to take them serious. Last year was proof with Costal Carolina that no one cares about these teams outside of their small fan base.
These teams that jumped up are the clear losers in this because whichever whoever is not invited to this big party, still will not want these teams in their party either.
What is the point of having an SEC or a Big Ten? Do what Euro soccer teams try to do, to an extent. Form your own league of blue bloods. Who needs something called the SEC where you have to share revenue with the Mississippi's, Vandy, and others. I don't understand this need to protect such garbage programs. Start anew, take the top programs. Done.
Boom. Chaka. Ala kazaam. You make less sense than anyone here. You aren't that bright are you?
Right. When the best teams are in one conference, there will be soooo much interest in watching them play with themselves or far inferior teams. There won't be any money for that postseason.
How would playing in a super league have any impact on the university educating students.
A true super league will never happen because a couple of those big programs will have to lose a lot of games each year and with no draft the climb out of the basement may be impossible.
All teams are at the same level in pro sports. You're dividing the college teams into 2 or more power-level divisions. your comparison is meaningless.
I doubt we see super leagues but I have not seen anyrhing that says they wouldn't be students.
There are posts about taking football away from the NCAA, away from Athletic Director control, paying the players, and "affiliation" with the school. All of that points to non-student participation. You may be talking about a different scenario, but that's the one to which I am referring.
So now you're changing your proposal? Your original position had 20 teams.
Paterno set the stage for this years ago when he helped drive the division 1 into 1-A and 1-AA, so that the Ivy League would not be playing with (and having any real input on the decisions of) the football factory institutions that put football above academics.
Not sure Paterno deserves credit for that.
And if keeping D1 football means pay players and arranging booster funded endorsement deals, I'm sure that there will be schools that say SCREW THIS, and drop to some D3 model or drop football altogether.
What boils my blood about superconferences...
Why I won't care if Pitt is left out of superconferences...
you've got it all covered
Why I won't care if Pitt is left out of superconferences...
you've got it all covered
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Thanks!Dude that custom avatar with BJ at the wheel is the best on the board. BY A MILE..well done!
The further you drive football into the haves and have nots, and the unchecked power you give football programs over their university and community, the more you are asking for trouble. The same very type of mindset that led him to drive the 1-A/1-AA split ended up his downfall. One can certainly argue he got his just desserts in the end and that he deserves the credit for the problems his program faced.
I guess you don't have any proof when your only response is to imply that I'm ignorant of the obvious.
Lol.
Here are the ways I listed that fraud exists in major college athletics:
grades
course work
admissions
NCAA rules
extra benefits
If you can't name several examples off the top of your head, then yes, you are ignorant of the obvious.
