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Go the other direction. Return all college sports to the club model, with no athletic scholarships and coaches paid like adjunct faculty. Tell the television networks to go pound sand.

Who exactly would argue for this? The players? The coaching staff? The broadcasting networks? University Board of Trustees? The NCAA?

Because I'm having a difficult time trying to imagine who would honestly prefer your arrangement to the one currently in place (much less what's being recommended by the NCAA).

“...I’m having a difficult time trying to imagine who would honestly prefer your arrangement to the one currently in place...”

I don’t think you give them enough credit for their efforts. Rule changes, advanced recruiting tactics, the literal removal of entire conferences to chase the money eastward (see PAC-12), and the manipulation of the rating system to get preferred colleges into the money game with bowl appearances, national television time, are just a few of the changing tactics to orchestrate a money making machine designed to spread the wealth to selected groups. And it’s been going on for over three generation at least.

I can remember a junior college I attended in the early 1970’s that went into the national championship as the northern California champion rated #2 in the state and nation behind Fullerton JC as #1. We played them in Bakersfield at the end of the season and beat the living skit out of them. It was so bad that at the end of the game, they were third and goal on the 2 and when their quarterback checked both backs said out loud they didn’t want it. So we hammered them but in the ratings by the AP on Monday they were still #1 both pieces. And to this day, I’m still not sure how the money for the teams from the game was split and where it went.

wy69

What’s ultimately going to drive this — and I see this NCAA “FBS subdivision” as one major step in the process — is the eradication of collegiate sports that will inevitably happen as a result of biological men infiltrating women's sports.

Here’s the progression as I see it:

1. Biological men begin to dominate women’s sports and are awarded athletic scholarships in large numbers.

2. Women drop out of sports in large numbers.

3. Schools face a dilemma that they can’t fix when they can’t reconcile the decline of women’s sports participation with the stupid mandates they face under Federal Title IX requirements.

4. Schools eventually drop their sports programs entirely rather than face the untenable scenario of reconciling Title IX with the LGBTQWERTY idiocy.

5. Revenues from profitable sports — namely, just football and men’s basketball — are preserved by having these leagues set up as independent organizations, with no direct affiliation with colleges and universities, that pay licensing fees to NCAA schools for the use of their names and logos (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Alabama Crimson Tide, etc.).

6. Minor college sports that are nothing but cost centers for NCAA schools are relegated to club sports that are financed by participants and their own sponsors.

Everybody gets what they want at the end of the day under this scenario.