If you think the Supreme Court's takedown of the NCAA is a blank check for the P5, as yourself...why does the P5 need 65 schools?

If you want professionalize college-age football, you don't need 65 teams to secure a major contract. A 32 team league would do as well.

Sure, some old schools get cut, and they'll find a home in what's left of their old conferences, where crowds are smaller and the players aren't as great. But that's progress, so they say.

Here's your 32 team Premier League. Relegation is not on the table at this point.

West: USC, UCLA, Cal, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska

South: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Florida St.

North: Michigan, Ohio St., Michigan St., Penn St., Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Notre Dame

East: Clemson, North Carolina, North Carolina St., Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse

How many of these schools will have the temperament to go from being an elite program into becoming a permanent middling program or a bottom feeder? The fans and money only flow through these programs because they constantly are winning, once you take away their source of those victories how long will the fan support and tv eyeballs stick around once you start going from being an annual 10+ win team into a constant 5 win team?

(06-21-2021 02:06 PM)clpp01 Wrote:  How many of these schools will have the temperament to go from being an elite program into becoming a permanent middling program or a bottom feeder? The fans and money only flow through these programs because they constantly are winning, once you take away their source of those victories how long will the fan support and tv eyeballs stick around once you start going from being an annual 10+ win team into a constant 5 win team?

It also ignores many of the pillars for why conferences formed, evolved, and sustained throughout time, and why schools desire the associations with schools they currently have.

(06-21-2021 02:06 PM)clpp01 Wrote:  How many of these schools will have the temperament to go from being an elite program into becoming a permanent middling program or a bottom feeder?I The fans and money only flow through these programs because they constantly are winning, once you take away their source of those victories how long will the fan support and tv eyeballs stick around once you start going from being an annual 10+ win team into a constant 5 win team?

I suspect the only way something like this happens is with (1) a common TV contract, (2) some form of revenue sharing, and (e) a collective bargaining agreement with salary caps.

In other words, the playing field for the 32 teams would have to be extremely level compared to what it is now.

Jmo.

Hey, the players do get paid. It is called a scholarship. That is worth a lot of money, if used correctly. This is going to ruin college sports. People think colleges are made of money. That money comes from us the taxpayer and it burns my tail when I think of the free spending which will be happening and athletes holding out for best offer. I guarantee you this will happen. Hey, let's start paying high schoolers and pee wee ball players. This is PANDORA'S BOX and I personally can't stand it. Take it out of money raised or the athletic director's pay, do not take it out of my taxes. When will we learn as a society to tell prima donna's no? And do not give me crap about all student athletes will benefit. Just certain ones will. G5's you are done, and all but about 16 schools will be done at this and fellow citizens who pay taxes,enjoy.

(06-21-2021 02:49 PM)jaybird44 Wrote:  Hey, the players do get paid. It is called a scholarship. That is worth a lot of money, if used correctly. This is going to ruin college sports. People think colleges are made of money. That money comes from us the taxpayer and it burns my tail when I think of the free spending which will be happening and athletes holding out for best offer. I guarantee you this will happen. Hey, let's start paying high schoolers and pee wee ball players. This is PANDORA'S BOX and I personally can't stand it. Take it out of money raised or the athletic director's pay, do not take it out of my taxes. When will we learn as a society to tell prima donna's no? And do not give me crap about all student athletes will benefit. Just certain ones will. G5's you are done, and all but about 16 schools will be done at this and fellow citizens who pay taxes,enjoy.

This is only going to make college football even more of a regional sport than it's become in the last 15 years. With ESPN using its near-monopoly on coverage to promote SEC football non-stop while ignoring major conferences west of the Mississippi, you might as well stick a fork in any hopes of being competitive if you're outside of the South. Hell, even college baseball, for all of its faults, has competitive teams on the West Coast.

I do kind of wonder how a school like Rice that has very little to gain and lots to lose from agreeing to this new model will handle it.

Pittsburgh does not have the fan support like they did in the past.