Maybe I’m reading the room wrong but I envision 50-60 teams and Iowa State making that cut not some super split off of 24-30. Although that could come later.
Here comes the doomsday thread, sorry
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Couple questions:
1. at this point non-olympic sports are just pro leagues essentially using the branding of a university.
2. if the non-top tier league can still; have NIL coming in, what's the difference at the end of the day? Eventually they'll have the same problem where the higher-end "lower schools" have more to give athletes than the lower end "lower schools".
What am I missing?
1. at this point non-olympic sports are just pro leagues essentially using the branding of a university.
2. if the non-top tier league can still; have NIL coming in, what's the difference at the end of the day? Eventually they'll have the same problem where the higher-end "lower schools" have more to give athletes than the lower end "lower schools".
What am I missing?
Fair point. Maybe said in a better way, I think there are less eyeballs for a 25-40 team breakaway league than there is right now with 120 fan bases paying close attention to college football.
I’ll continue to only watch ISU. Even if we get relegated to ESPN+ games
I see legal entities being created that manage their own sports and pay to use the name/branding/facilities of various colleges. SImple way around it to me.
Need two consecutive quarters of pay exceeding $1000, then you become eligible in the third quarter of the calendar year. If there is a gap for a quarter, then the cycle resets. Pay them during their season only and IPERS would be avoided.
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The only way I might like this is if the top 60 or so schools break off and reshuffle the deck to have regional divisions. Then I might be onboard
But even then, if there’s no limit on spending even the lower half of the haves aren’t going to actually compete.
Also, I am so sick of realignment ****. Can we skip to the end and be done? It's been constant the last few years
I think it will be more inclusive then that even. College fans in general are ready to jump off a cliff ever since NIL became a thing. Its a big deal, but not the dire situation some are making it out to be IMO.
What’s the difference between that and what we have now?
That would require the approval of government regulators and I'm not sure how that happens.
Maybe things get so messed up they pass laws Congress gets involved and fixes everything. (jimlad)
I always thought a Super League would come. What I didn’t expect was that it would be initiated by the NCAA. I thought the 20-25 programs would simply break away from the NCAA (similar to what they tried in Europe).
This is the NCAA trying to remain relevant, as the obviously see the writing on the wall
This is the NCAA trying to remain relevant, as the obviously see the writing on the wall
And if so maybe conferences could be sensibly reconstituted for all the other sports?
Bringing back the PAC, old Big East, and SWC as 10-12 team sporting affiliations would have a lot of benefits to other sports. They all got wrecked over football anyway.
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I'm betting Washington State and Oregon State thought they'd make the cut off. (maybe they ultimately will, but we have now seen what can happen)
This isn’t a super league though the way it is being described and honestly it isn’t even a change from what is happening now, it’s just putting the P4 in a separate category so they don’t have to pay for bowls/playoff spots for the G5
Yes I think ISU can make this cut. If you’re looking at $15K per athlete, that’s about $6M/year. Which should be doable with our current budget. That’s about 5% of our annual budget. We can find that money from somewhere.
I don’t think this prevents an eventual Super League though. The B12, ACC, have-nots of B10/SEC need to remain competitive to avoid the creation of a Super League
