The NCAA is facing battles on multiple fronts, and few -- if any -- look to go the association's way.

Excellent reporting here by Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...o-stop-it/

Had the NCAA been proactive and receptive to the necessary changes within college athletics years ago, everything would not have blown up all at once. Frankly, the top member schools of the NCAA could have forced their hand years ago as well, but I sense many administrators and Presidents felt that it was only a matter of time before the match was lit (and court cases determined).

(02-07-2024 10:41 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Had the NCAA been proactive and receptive to the necessary changes within college athletics years ago, everything would not have blown up all at once. Frankly, the top member schools of the NCAA could have forced their hand years ago as well, but I sense many administrators and Presidents felt that it was only a matter of time before the match was lit (and court cases determined).

Sankey has referenced how hard it is to come to a decision with 11 people in the room. imagine how hard it is with over a thousand schools, and most of those thousand+ have a tiny athletic budget more reminiscent of a big high school program than of the SEC?

(02-07-2024 11:25 AM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  

(02-07-2024 10:41 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Had the NCAA been proactive and receptive to the necessary changes within college athletics years ago, everything would not have blown up all at once. Frankly, the top member schools of the NCAA could have forced their hand years ago as well, but I sense many administrators and Presidents felt that it was only a matter of time before the match was lit (and court cases determined).

Sankey has referenced how hard it is to come to a decision with 11 people in the room. imagine how hard it is with over a thousand schools, and most of those thousand+ have a tiny athletic budget more reminiscent of a big high school program than of the SEC?

And I bet you won't get all 16 AD's and 16 Presidents in the SEC to agree on the path forward.

(02-07-2024 10:41 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Had the NCAA been proactive and receptive to the necessary changes within college athletics years ago, everything would not have blown up all at once. Frankly, the top member schools of the NCAA could have forced their hand years ago as well, but I sense many administrators and Presidents felt that it was only a matter of time before the match was lit (and court cases determined).

Disagree. The NCAA never had an anti-trust exemption and believed it wasn't necessary under the student-athlete model. That model functioned perfectly fine (NCAA governance aside) until it was blown up. There is no backstop and there never was. The NCAA lives in an all-or-nothing status with regarding to college athletics.

The balloon has been popped, and air will continue to be released. There is no going back except for congressional intervention.

This change is for roughly 50 teams. What happens to the other 700 NCAA football schools?