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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4811273, member: 1023"]
I think this is a disaster and I doubt it survives very long.  It might be the end of the NCAA.  To some extent I agree with superjohn (I know.  I’m surprised too). It won’t work.

I also have my doubts about who will or will not opt in.  I suspect there will be some surprises on both ends.  Within the BIG 10 you have Rutgers and Maryland. 1 drowning in debt.  The other prohibited from using state money for athletics.  Might they relook stop things?  Vanderbilt?  BC?  Northwestern?  How about if you are one of those schools that hasn’t won a league title in a generation?  Do you really want a semi-pro team?  And if you have a semi-pro team do you really want to have them having to worry about passing World History?

As far as the NEWBIE goes you need to wonder about Georgetown perhaps over academics, but what about schools that have had pretty marginal success over the past 10-15 years?  Seton Hall, Butler, DePaul?  St John’s?

My sense of this is that 2 leagues will spin off.  Maybe a single “super conference” with 20-30 semi-pro affiliate teams.  Everyone else goes back to life much closer to what it was 5 years ago.
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