I think what will happen is a bunch of the big programs will break away from the NCAA and start their own organization.
That would be a solution. :)
I don’t think enough would. If they leave the NCAA in football, they have to leave it in everything else, meaning no March Madness money. No network is going to give them exposure as the NCAA would shut them out of any other events. Any network that takes a chance on this league isn’t going to offer the schools any more money than they get now. Alabama has all the fans they’re going to get. There isn’t going to be a surge in new fans because they left the NCAA. You may not care if people in New York watch, but networks do, and there isn’t going to be an increase in viewership, therefore no increase in TV revenue.
To be honest college football is on a slow downswing. Smaller schools in the mid-major conferences (Idaho, E, Michigan to name two) are leaving for I-AA. Parents not wanting to let their kids play. Tuition payers are tired of paying athletic fees on top of record high tuition, and with the scandals at Baylor, N Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi, people are getting tired of the hypocrisy of college football. I see an NFL minor league before I see anyone leaving the NCAA. Unfortunately the NCAA has too much power.