(01-30-2017 06:00 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The NCAA clearly has a set of discriminatory rules that prohibit schools who are willing to make the investment to play at Division I FBS standards unless they have an invitation from an existing conference. Furthermore, the scheduling rules for transitional schools make it impossible for a group of schools to move up together and play a league schedule among themselves during their transition years.

Anyone willing to challenge the NCAA in court on this has a valid case. The NCAA shouldn't be in the business of playing gate keeper in order to protect its existing members.

The problem is that even if you do challenge the NCAA and win you're not entitled to any money because the Playoff System is its own separate animal and an agreement among ten conferences in which 5 of them dictated the terms. If you were to try to bring up a new league ideally you would want to time it so that you'd coincide with the Playoff's renewal but even then, the powers at be could decide that the newcomers don't get a slice of the pie.