(07-25-2021 05:42 PM)Erictelevision Wrote: I think recent event have killed the NCAA as we’ve known it.
The thing is, the majority of athletic departments around the country do
not run big money programs, and in an institution controlled by member votes, a breakaway of the big money programs means a restructure to meet the needs of the remaining programs.
Without the flood of money from the NCAA Tourney, it would involve a massive streamlining, so it would definitely not be "the NCAA as we've known it" ... it would be more like a big brother to the NAIA.
Because a breakaway wouldn't be sanctioned
before it broke away, but would require a structure for handling the non-semipro sports at the participating schools to get them to sign up, the most likely
initial set-up is for the breakaway to set up a collective organization which has a section that oversees the non-semipro sports that parallels the NCAA.
That also means the breakaway won't have to be involved in managing the wrenching changes that would be coming to the NCAA as it transitions to a dues-supported organization with some championship costs offset by media revenues, rather than rather than a primarily media revenue funded organization.
But given that transition to being a dues-supported organization, it seems likely that over the longer term it will eventually be open for that non-semipro section of the breakaway to be merged back into the NCAA.