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[QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 4999870, member: 694"]
I think eventually the top tier separates, schools can opt-in but the bylaws surrounding required funding levels and/or the CBA with athletes will be set as to make it cost prohibitive to make the move without a home in a power conference with a massive media deal, this ultimately leads to defacto consolidation of the Big Ten & SEC even if they are two "conferences" within a single super-structure.  Essentially that pro-franchise model under a nominal NCAA umbrella.  Think NCAA Elite Division or whatever they want to call it.

I think FCS and the remaining G-tier FBS schools will eventually consolidate.  Conferences will need to ensure all teams full fund at least X scholarships to be eligible for the NCAA Division 1 for football or any other sports.   Division 2 will go away.. with the demographic struggles imperiling the smaller colleges and universities, it'll be harder to justify a minor league emphasis on athletics.

Essentially the NCAA's new three division structure would become NCAA Elite Division (P2); NCAA Scholarship Division (D1+some D2); NCAA Non-Scholarship Division (D3+most D2)
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