Recommendation for FBS to split from NCAA

[Peacefrog]

Please delete if this has already been posted or addressed elsewhere but I didn't see it. If these recommendations were followed, where would it leave UConn football?

Knight group recommends FBS split from NCAA

The Knight Commission believes the best way to repair the NCAA's "broken governance model" is to remove the football teams of the bowl subdivision from the association, forcing the top level of college football to govern itself as a separate entity.

www.espn.com

 

[huskymedic]

There have been a bunch of tweets today about it. It would seem that it would cover all FBS football programs:

 

[huskymedic]

 

[freescooter]

End of the NCAA as we know it. How long do you think basketball and other coaches are going to stand by while their football brethren get to operate under a totally different set of rules? The question is what does it mean for a league like the big East?

 

[formerlurker]

Winter is Coming!

 

[UConnJim]

End of the NCAA as we know it. How long do you think basketball and other coaches are going to stand by while their football brethren get to operate under a totally different set of rules? The question is what does it mean for a league like the big East?

It comes down to money. The NCAA doesn’t touch much football money so it doesn’t make sense for them to run football. And, they don’t run the playoff. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is run pretty well and money from it goes to all levels of college sports. Plus, the NCAA runs all other college sports, especially the tournaments, funded by the basketball tournament so there isn’t a real reason to move other sports from the NCAA.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[freescooter]

It comes down to money. The NCAA doesn’t touch much football money so it doesn’t make sense for them to run football. And, they don’t run the playoff. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is run pretty well and money from it goes to all levels of college sports. Plus, the NCAA runs all other college sports, especially the tournaments, funded by the basketball tournament so there isn’t a real reason to move other sports from the NCAA.

The problem will come when football players get paid and have minimal class requirements and no APR and all the other crazy rules, but the basketball coaches do. Plus the football schools will start asking why should we share Tiurnanent revenues with Central Connecticut and Texas Southern? And they will need to support a new regulatory entity like the NCAA so they will need additional revenue for that...

 

[ktuck911]

the destruction of the love of this beautiful game we call college football.. $$$... smh...

 

[Redding Husky]

No matter what happens, we’ll draw the short straw.

 

[don356]

No matter what happens, we’ll draw the short straw.

Yep, unless you can recruit top tier talent, good luck to the rest.

 

[huskymedic]

Matt Brown column: Splitting FBS football from the NCAA is not the bold, transformational change college athletics needs

 

[Palatine]

It comes down to money. The NCAA doesn’t touch much football money so it doesn’t make sense for them to run football. And, they don’t run the playoff. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is run pretty well and money from it goes to all levels of college sports. Plus, the NCAA runs all other college sports, especially the tournaments, funded by the basketball tournament so there isn’t a real reason to move other sports from the NCAA.

Here are the questions. First ask them about football. Then ask them about basketball.

What do the schools get for their membership in the NCAA?
What are the pluses?
What are the minuses?
Is the NCAA run cost effectively?
Would the schools benefit financially by leaving the NCAA?
How would an exit take place?
What is the replacement?

 

[freescooter]

Here are the questions. First ask them about football. Then ask them about basketball.

What do the schools get for their membership in the NCAA?
What are the pluses?
What are the minuses?
Is the NCAA run cost effectively?
Would the schools benefit financially by leaving the NCAA?
How would an exit take place?
What is the replacement?

When you consider that over the last 30 years three have been 3 NCAA basketball champs who didn’t play FBS football it sort of begs the question why should they stay for basketball? And I’ve somewhat changed my view on this over time. I have come to think that a tournament of FBS hoop teams, even if it was say 32 would be pretty exciting. Maybe you could extend something to the absolute top nonfootball schools to join but it would be a pretty limited list. Gonzaga, Villanova maybe 5-6 more but certainly not DePaul, Seton Hall, Providence St Johns. And honestly I’m not sure how it would possibly work. But the FBS Tournament with Duke UNC UConn Michigan UCLA is always going to outdraw an NCAA tournament with Villanova Gonzaga and Central Connecticut and Florida Gulf Coast.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

UConn has lacked long-term planning for its men's FB and BB programs. BB has been all about the coach. FB just blows in the wind like a weathervane. If there was more direction and focus, I suspect we would have made the ACC. Let's learn from past mistakes and get a post COVID plan in place: How we can move from FB independence and the New Big East to either the ACC or B10 in years not decades.

 

[RSTuthill]

Couple comments.

Guessing that whatever organization will govern football, it will be P5 only. The other schools are not gonna share any revenue with G5 schools. They will only share costs.

MBB will go the same way. Why should the P5 MBB schools share revenue with G5 or FCS schools?

The NCAA may expel all schools who left NCAA football. Thus all other sports will be affected.

As was already mentioned, academic achievement and enrollment in classes will become optional.

The possibilities mentioned above are merely ideas. Not saying they will happen but that they are possibilities. The product of 5 minutes of brainstorming.