I don’t see it happening. There are 2 giant juggernauts in the SEC and B1G. Its only a matter of time before they strip the ACC of the programs they want and leave the rest to join the Big 12 which is clearly a step behind even the ACC.....which is miles behind the Big 2.
Been saying this has been coming for awhile. Only a matter of when.
Are these people on drugs? There already is a Super League. College. Football gets more boring and less relevant every year.
I disagree. If a college/university want to join the “national league,” they should be able to do that. College sports are entertainment, nothing more. So there is no harm in having many teams/divisions in the league. That said, there should be D1, D2, D3, ... levels so that there would be realistic competition. For example, Eastern Washington University could be a D2 while the University of Washington and Washington State University could be a D1. Similar to what is FBS and FCS right now.
The whole idea of getting rid of the current conference debacle and reestablishing geographical rivalries is the right direction.
My idea is to basically divide up the Division I schools into 12 Divisions, each with two tiers. The upper tier are the schools generally associated with the Power Conferences and the lower tier are the schools from the smaller conferences. But there’s a playoff game at the end of the season to determine which lower tier team will play in the upper tier the following season.
I’m getting sick of this crap. They’ve ruined college football. It’s all about the almighty dollar. Loyalty means NOTHING. I don’t see how any conservative can support what’s going on.
Pay the athletes more!
Don’t bother making them go to class.
[It’s only woke BS now anyway]
The SEC and the Big10 are not behind this therefore it will not happen. Just a lot of useless speculation.
I have gone from loving to loathing college football. What is the point of rooting for one group of America-hating racists over another?
The TV networks control the purse strings in college football, so if they want it to happen, it will happen.
Meanwhile, our colleges graduate some of the stupidest people on earth.
Oh, LOOK!! Football!!!!!!!!!
smh
Looking at this as a one season at a time measurement is foolish. It also will destroy programs by rerouting the competitiveness of college football and other sports to certain universities and keep them there while the less talented players will be forced to attend less academic schools for their education, until their sport becomes unaffordable.
Football builds money for books and test tubes. So with programs that will get all the airtime on ESPN and FOX, along with the lucritive contracts, will be supplying cash to the universities and will be affording the buying of the more talented players on their way to the NFL. I remember in Rudy a comment the coach made when he said they have room for 90 student athletes on their football team and all were scholorshipped and they have no more they can fund.
Look at it as what has happened with title X, only in reverse. When money was shifted within a college away from the mens’ programs to the womens’ it destoyed the lesser attended programs of the men. Sure the women got the money, but a number of established programs bit the dust.
And the fallout is ruining education as it is much bigger than people realize. Around 80 Division I programs no longer exist, affecting roughly 1,500 athletes with underfunding being the decisive factor. Furman baseball had a 125-year history. East Carolina men’s swimming won a conference title in February and a few months later no longer existed. Power Five schools — Iowa, Stanford and Minnesota — have discontinued programs.
If that day comes, as it recently has for hundreds of academic athletes this year, they are forced to transfer to a new school or give up their sport to stay on campus. Coaches lose their jobs and must move their families for the next one. And student athletes can no longer stay on campus due to money problems...dropouts. This process repeats around the country, each time beginning with an emotional team meeting that leaves athletes scrambling to adjust. So creating a system that opens this problem up, is going to be the end of colleges as their sports programs are a selling point for their future. And it also is going to obliterate the competition of our country against foreign sports programs. And a side note, how many foreign athletes will be brought in to fill player slots and kill education bennies for American born student athletes that wouldn’t make it without the funding? It all becomes money that will be rerouted to certain colleges. And if they make the program big enough, there will be no underdog coming up to beat the giant. David will never get the rock for his sling.
wy69
Looking at this as a one season at a time measurement is foolish. It also will destroy programs by rerouting the competitiveness of college football and other sports to certain universities and keep them there while the less talented players will be forced to attend less academic schools for their education, until their sport becomes unaffordable.
Football builds money for books and test tubes. So with programs that will get all the airtime on ESPN and FOX, along with the lucritive contracts, will be supplying cash to the universities and will be affording the buying of the more talented players on their way to the NFL. I remember in Rudy a comment the coach made when he said they have room for 90 student athletes on their football team and all were scholorshipped and they have no more they can fund.
Look at it as what has happened with title X, only in reverse. When money was shifted within a college away from the mens’ programs to the womens’ it destoyed the lesser attended programs of the men. Sure the women got the money, but a number of established programs bit the dust.
And the fallout is ruining education as it is much bigger than people realize. Around 80 Division I programs no longer exist, affecting roughly 1,500 athletes with underfunding being the decisive factor. Furman baseball had a 125-year history. East Carolina men’s swimming won a conference title in February and a few months later no longer existed. Power Five schools — Iowa, Stanford and Minnesota — have discontinued programs.
If that day comes, as it recently has for hundreds of academic athletes this year, they are forced to transfer to a new school or give up their sport to stay on campus. Coaches lose their jobs and must move their families for the next one. And student athletes can no longer stay on campus due to money problems...dropouts. This process repeats around the country, each time beginning with an emotional team meeting that leaves athletes scrambling to adjust. So creating a system that opens this problem up, is going to be the end of colleges as their sports programs are a selling point for their future. And it also is going to obliterate the competition of our country against foreign sports programs. And a side note, how many foreign athletes will be brought in to fill player slots and kill education bennies for American born student athletes that wouldn’t make it without the funding? It all becomes money that will be rerouted to certain colleges. And if they make the program big enough, there will be no underdog coming up to beat the giant. David will never get the rock for his sling.
wy69
How about this radical idea. Colleges should focus on educating students.
They’ve already destroyed college football with the transfer portal and the NIL.
It’s nowhere near time. Start a minor league but keep your money grubbing hands and Vegas betting hands off nearly teenagers.
They’ve completely fucked up College Football.
When did Missouri become a SOUTHEASTERN state?
How much money does the NFL put into their minor league?
How much money do the overpaid NBAers give back to their schools that provided everything to make them successful?
They should have a Premier Leauge of 24 schools and a Secondary Leaugue of 24 more schools & the rest try to compete to get into the Secondary league.
Every year you have a scoring system based on the last 3 years where the 3 with the most losses points (not counting playoffs) the previous 4 years get kicked out and the Secondary champion & 2 other highest wins points get put into the Premier League.
For the Secondary League you could have the rotation be 4 instead of 3. That way this Secondary Leaugue would have an annual turnover of 7 - 3 up to Premier, 4 down to 1A, and 7 incoming (3 from Premier, 4 from 1A)
The division 1A should have 4 bowl games where the top 8 of wins for the previous 4 years in 1A get to play & the winners go to the Secondary Leaugue the next season.