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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 4729906, member: 5798"] follow up............... The chaos that has enveloped college football, as the saying goes, came on us slowly, and then suddenly. The true starter pistol for all this, though, was [URL='https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/ncaa-looks-like-dead-organization-after-supreme-court-ruling.html']the June 2021 Supreme Court ruling[/URL]—and instantly infamous Brett Kavanaugh concurrence—that essentially called the NCAA, which was claiming it didn’t have to pay its football players despite bringing in billions of dollars, a cartel. The NCAA’s response to this was, essentially, to take its ball and go home, to abdicate any responsibility as the governing power of the game. [URL]https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/09/opinions/college-admissions-elite-sports-harvard-affirmative-action-macintosh[/URL] [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/09/opinions/college-admissions-elite-sports-harvard-affirmative-action-macintosh']Opinion: The one group with a huge advantage in college admissions[/URL] - And while the NCAA [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-ncaa-president-charlie-baker-37e90bd3']is flawed[/URL]—[URL='https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/10/13/october-14-2017-oag']hugely, hilariously flawed—[/URL]and was in desperate need of reform, it was still the closest thing college football had to an overarching authority. When it checked out, that vacuum launched an arms race among athletic directors, conference commissioners, and television executives to fight for every scrap of revenue—and to destroy anyone who stood in their way. That’s why Oklahoma’s now in the SEC, Arizona is in the Big 12, Washington’s now in the Big Ten, and [B]the Pac-12 is dead[/B]. Every college football decision has been made with solely short-term interests—rather than what’s good for the sport, and higher education in general—in mind. No one’s minding the store. So everyone’s pulling up and selling anything not nailed down. [/QUOTE]

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