(06-18-2022 10:49 AM)ken d Wrote:  Or, you can just have each conference establish its own rules and enforcement. If your conference sets rules no other conference is willing to live with they can just stop playing your schools. That moderating influence should quickly result in a manageable number of conferences and schools with common interests.

Agree that there are folks in the SEC who are seriously contemplating that option…hence the SEC-only CFP expansion discussion.

IMO - regardless of how flawed the whole execution of an Alliance has been, the origins of the Alliance was the commonality in the long term interests across conferences. All three Alliance members are definitely much better-off with a common governing structure. Kliavkoff’s comments are not controversial within Alliance schools.

On the other hand, establishing conference-specific rules is not really a choice for the B12 and G5. If the SEC and Alliance can’t compromise on football governance, then these conferences have more options.