Wisconsin AD doesn't include ACC as part of his proposed "super league"

[Adios]

As long as we are established in a Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, we are good.

Big 12 doesn't hurt, either. We'd pack Big 12 games. Bring in Louisville, Cincinnati, Rugters and us.

 

[The Funster]

If UConn didn't make it in, I would be done with college sports. I only started watching college football when UConn joined the bigs. Many of my friends feel the same way. Eliminating so many schools would severely damage the total revenue generated by college sports.

Even if UConn made it in it would be bad for college athletics. It's not going to happen anyways. It was an ex football coach dreaming out loud

 

[FfldCntyFan]

If the top 50 or so schools split from the NCAA, would the NCAA forebode its member institutions from scheduling against those schools? How the heck do your olympic sports survive the travel costs? How does Cal or USC's water polo team or BC's hockey team find enough games for a season? What happens to title IX? If the money is right, there are ways to make it work - but man there are a lot of "what if"s.

It's not that simple (if it were it would have happened by now). The NCAA is an open organization. It has to allow membership to any institution that can meet reasonable acceptance standards. USF didn't exist until the mid 1950's yet was able to (over time) play at its highest level (d-1 for all sports it participates in including FBS football). If some organization began from some schools who broke away from the NCAA, this organization would be required to publish clear and reasonable criteria which if met would allow for new members to join. While a conference within the NCAA can tell a school who would like to join that there is no room at the inn, an athletic association cannot. It is safe to sat that once the few power conferences find some legitimate legal criteria that will keep other members out, they will break off. Fortunately for schools like UConn this criteria does not exist.

 

[junglehusky]

Even if UConn made it in it would be bad for college athletics. It's not going to happen anyways. It was an ex football coach dreaming out loud

He made the mistake of saying it publicly, instead of posting it on a messageboard or tweeting it under a pseudonym

 

[baggerbob]

The power conferences can bluster about breaking off from the NCAA all they want. One of the major reasons it won't happen is money, right now with the NCAA as the ruling body for all colleges, they all get away with the pretense of amateurism. Lawyers will stop any movement to leave the NCAA, by telling the Big Conferences they won't be able to continue the sham, and would end up paying the athletes. The conferences need the NCAA in order to continue the allusion of amateurism.

 

[The Funster]

The power conferences can bluster about breaking off from the NCAA all they want. One of the major reasons it won't happen is money, right now with the NCAA as the ruling body for all colleges, they all get away with the pretense of amateurism. Lawyers will stop any movement to leave the NCAA, by telling the Big Conferences they won't be able to continue the sham, and would end up paying the athletes. The conferences need the NCAA in order to continue the allusion of amateurism.

And if they do split off and go pay for play there are still Title IX implications not to mention worker's comp, etc.

 

[RS9999X]

I'm just enjoying the gnashing of teeth as the BiG fails to chart a team in the BCS and the ACC is bunched up with the Big East around #15 and Notre Dame is right there at #5 ready to take the ACC slot under the new agreement.

 

[SAMCRO]

I'm just enjoying the gnashing of teeth as the BiG fails to chart a team in the BCS and the ACC is bunched up with the Big East around #15 and Notre Dame is right there at #5 ready to take the ACC slot under the new agreement.

ND doesn't take the ACC spot. The ACC champ will always play in one of these "contract bowls" wheteer they are 12-0 or 6-6.