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WHAT IF the ncaa was broken up?

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Hey gang…

As a result of this ncaa debacle,...

WHAT IF…

…a new college athletic association is formed? Can you imagine the schools that would jump at the chance to leave the ncaa?

For starters Penn State, Southern California, Ohio State, Miami, Georgia Tech, Oregon, North Carolina, UConn, FSU, Buffalo and SMU. All are former or active targets of the Death Star.

Who else would join the new association/league? The Mountain West Conference? Conference USA? After all, the ncaa has dealt them out of any national championship system.

That would come to 33 schools splitting from the disaster we all know as the National Colleges Against Athletes. That’s three conferences of 8 schools each and one with nine schools. A eleven game schedule with 4 non-conference games each. The conference champions compete in a four school playoff. A national champion!

What a novel approach.

How would you set up the four conferences?
 
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TexCane said:
Hey gang…

As a result of this ncaa debacle,...

WHAT IF…

…a new college athletic association is formed? Can you imagine the schools that would jump at the chance to leave the ncaa?

For starters Penn State, Southern California, Ohio State, Miami, Georgia Tech, Oregon, North Carolina, UConn, FSU, Buffalo and SMU. All are former or active targets of the Death Star.

Who else would join the new association/league? The Mountain West Conference? Conference USA? After all, the ncaa has dealt them out of any national championship system.

That would come to 33 schools splitting from the disaster we all know as the National Colleges Against Athletes. That’s three conferences of 8 schools each and one with nine schools. A eleven game schedule with 4 non-conference games each. The conference champions compete in a four school playoff. A national champion!

What a novel approach.

How would you set up the four conferences?
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I have been praying for this exact model to play out... and I think more schools would defect than 33... but unfortunately it is just a pipe dream for now...
 
If anything, the "BCS" conferences will eventually cannibalize each other to become the much speculated 4, 16 team Super Conferences. I can't imagine any of the MWC or C-USA schools being of any use at that point as they would be on the outside looking in, save for a BYU or Boise St. I don't see anyone in the ACC or the other schools you mentioned going with us if we tried to break away right now. I just don't think they are willing to leave their conference affiliations. More importantly, no one in the SEC has any incentive to break away. They are on top right now and raking in cash under the current model. Any new model would have to include the SEC for the sake of perception I'd think.
 
Try this on for size...

American College Athletic Association

Northeast Division:
Ohio State
Penn State
UConn
Buffalo
Marshall
Temple
Cincinnati
Memphis
Navy
Army

Northwest Division:
Oregon
Boise State
Fresno State
Air Force
Nevada
Wyoming
Colorado State
San Jose State
Utah State
Idaho

Southeast Division:
Miami
FSU
Georgia Tech
UNC
USF
UCF
ECU
So. Miss.
Tulane
UAB

Southwest Division:
USC
San Diego State
Hawaii
UNLV
SMU
Tulsa,
Houston
Rice
UTEP
New Mexico
 
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SEC, ACC, BIG12, and BIG10. Get those to 16 teams by raiding the best teams from wherever and there you go. Although, if the ACC somehow got raided by the SEC 1st, it could make the PAC12 one of them. IDK. Can there be 5 superconferences?
 
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I'm not sure there would be too much breakup, other than the 'major' conferences would put their own ruling body in place for revenue sports, while an entity that would very much resemble the NCAA would administer to the non-revenue sports and the rest of college athletics (lower divisions, etc.).


First of all, lots of the major conferences are locked into tv contracts, and law of diminishing returns would prevent them from adding a bunch of other schools..past the 16 mark at least, the only conference that would have the financial incentive to expand greatly at the present time would be the Big 10, because of the Big10 Network. One of the two 'major conferences' ACC or Big 12 might get cannibalized by other conferences, but would quickly snatch up 'lesser' schools to fill their ranks and keep on existing. But, honestly, that **** has been happening anyway, and goes to prove that the money conferences pretty much steer things anyway. Even if the NCAA were to go, the major conferences are here to stay.


Not that it matters. The NCAA won't be 'broken up'. At most they will be taken apart and reassembled under a different name, but most likely there will just be a sea change as far as leadership goes. You think college presidents and, especially, the athletic conferences really want the curtain pulled back on 'amateur athletics?' Four 'superconferences' would get sued to **** and back by the other schools, and their tax exempt status would be challenged.
 
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Het Tex, would there be a bowl game, say an allstar game of sorts pitting the NCAA vs the New Alliance? Or at least a few cross Association games?
 
The issue is that the governing body has become a typical omnipotent government, bloated, inefficient, and unfair. We still need a governing body for college sports, just a better one.
 
I see no reason for teams like Miami, GT, OSU*, etc to join up with non-BCS squads. As someone mentioned earlier, we're on the Golden Road to 4 16-team super conferences in football. Was gonna happen in the next five years anyway, and with the NCAA's shooting itself in the foot so badly, I'd bet good money it happens in the next three. Lose the Tulsas, the Buffalos, and the SMUs from your list. Add in the UF, MICH, and STAN type teams.

I see football-only from these schools breaking off from the NCAA. Saw it in an article, and I agree. It's absurd to have the same guidelines for Columbia women's soccer as for Miami Hurricanes Football. Broken, outdated model.
 
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The SEC would be renamed as the NFL D League and the kids could openly acknowledge their salaries, supplement use and the fact that they really don't attend class anyway. ;)
 
Hey Port Knox...

Great! It's a fun exercise. Let's do something really novel, like crowning a champion "on the field.!" The four division champions go into a playoff to decided a champion. No polls, no media, no computers, just good old fashioned "strap it on" football.

Tex :cigar:
 
TexCane said:
Hey Port Knox...

Great! It's a fun exercise. Let's do something really novel, like crowning a champion "on the field.!" The four division champions go into a playoff to decided a champion. No polls, no media, no computers, just good old fashioned "strap it on" football.

Tex :cigar:
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no homo
 
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