kiss goodbye to the vast majority of non-revenue student athletes (who represent the overwhelming majority of the athletes truly pursuing majors)
TOO much money at stake for relegation. Relegation should be instituted in the professional ranks but it has about as much chance as a snowball in hell of working its way into US sports system, professional or amateur .
I am against paying the athletes, but seeing as the judge in the ongoing case doesn't even know the difference between bcs and fbs I think the athletes are going to win. I just think that if they have to pay the players or allow them make money off of other things the NCAA can't do it across the board. It will kill the entire system. Whereas if the big 5 conferences separate they can afford to pay all athletes on some sort of scale that doesn't give some schools an advantage while maintaining all of their athletics programs. Then the NCAA schools can continue unaffected with the current system.
I hear you, but the reason the NCAA came into existence was because the schools couldn't police themselves. Given the amount of money involved, given the passion for their school's team(s) of folks like me who spend a fair chunk of time on sites like this, given jock sniffing bozos with money to waste, given the abuses we see and those we don't see in the current system, it would take someone with mustard seed optimism to see this as leading to something that works.
The Bama motto: play historically great team with a rich history in a down decade. Log the easy win and in 10 years when we look back we just see: look at Alabama killing all these great teams year after year. Penn state, ttun, va tech (kind of) and USC. Next it will be Texas and then Nebraska. But Bama will have to be quick before either of them get good again.
Is that bama's fault? Tech was good when they played them I remember because I was at that game. All these games were made a few years in advance and at least they are willing to play these teams.
I would never consider ncstate wazzu Washington cal and to some extent Miami (similar to vatech) as great teams. Not to the same caliber as ttun penny state or USC. All 3 historic powerhouses. All 3 of those games were scheduled 1-2 years in advance. All 3 were scheduled when the team was not a powerhouse, not 5 or 10 years out and then the team unexpectedly crapped the bed. When we played USC and Texas they were still great teams. And scheduled cal before they took a head first dive off a cliff. I would be on your side if the ttun game was scheduled in 2006, not less than a year in advance. Or if the USC game was scheduled before their sanctions.
