(11-18-2019 02:11 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: My personal opinion is that it is absolutely time to make a break. The NCAA as an institution is a failure. They can’t seem to figure out how to make rules or enforce them. The enforcement they do dole out is inconsistent and farcical. Big time athletics needs to change with the times. The only thing that the NCAA does seem to be good at is soaking up revenue.
The question is do the P5 so this as a collective whole or do the SEC and Big Ten make the initial move and then admit others into their new club on an institution by institution basis? This would serve to weed out some of the weaker programs.
How big does the new organization need to be sever the head from the NCAA snake without diluting the stakes of its constituent members? Does the Big East need to be let in? And what of the AAC, Boise, BYU? Do any of them get to come?
The problem is "THEY" is the schools.
Autonomy issues, the P5 do their own thing.
Everything else, the weighting used makes the P5 the thumb up or down on any legislation.
If the concern is the money, there is no reason to secede, all you have to do is pretend it's football make your own tournament. I would suggest at least 64 teams because bracket pool tracking drives far more eyeballs than colleges are comfortable thinking about.
Then its simply a matter of do you want all P5 in regardless how pathetic they were in regular season or do you want a sprinkling of old traditional names that aren't elite football programs and if you want some of them do you want some Cinderella candidates to make the opening days interesting?
Not a big deal at all to make the premier college basketball tournament a power school owned and operated event and with that, the NCAA members want the association to do stuff they gotta assess dues sufficient to fund the programs.
Secession is frankly a very unlikely outcome. College presidents tend to consider the whole business of athletics to be grimy and beneath the mission of higher education but a needed evil if you want non-governmental money to build a new performing arts center because the people who pay for stuff like that tend to be happy sports fans or at least that is the belief.
Shrinking the size of the marketplace is a dandy way to get DOJ or an ambitious US Attorney interested as well as the attention of people who'd like a crack at representing Jackson State or Belmont in an anti-trust claim.
Easier to make your own tournament that get messy and icky.