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The SEC & Big Ten - NCAA is a Big ???

By Bobby Burton

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All other football conferences should take a step back because It looks like the SEC and Big Ten are joining together to lead from the front.

According to a report from Pete Thamel of ESPN, the two major conferences are planning to fund an advisory committee concerning the future of big-time college athletics.

The move is long overdue as the NCAA and its archaic structure continues to wilt under the pressure of a multitude of lawsuits, long-term mismanagement and rising public animosity against it. 

Is this the official first step of a new era of college sports, and college football in particular?

My educated guess is yes.

The NCAA's antiquated structure is unsalvageable, at least as it relates to big-time college football where the dollars reach into the billions. NCAA President Charlie Baker even perhaps agrees with that sentiment. Two months ago Baker penned a letter addressing the future of the NCAA and its membership. In it, he suggested that it's possible some larger football-playing schools may desire a different set of rules in the future, ones incongruent with and unable to be managed by the NCAA.

It looks like the SEC and Big Ten are ready to take Baker up on that suggestion.

 

 

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    Millard Nance

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    Bobby…I had to smile when you talked about the Rice Owls and asked CJ if he knew that they had at one time been a very good team. In 1954, I was 8 and still have a picture of me in a football uniform with number 47 on the jersey…Dicky Moegle was my idol! And, who could ever forget his game against Alabama in the Cotton Bowl.

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    cmk4pres

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    I'm here for the break away and to watch Baylor, sand aggy and others rot. 
     

    So be it. 

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    Bobby Burton

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    1 hour ago, Millard Nance said:

    Bobby…I had to smile when you talked about the Rice Owls and asked CJ if he knew that they had at one time been a very good team. In 1954, I was 8 and still have a picture of me in a football uniform with number 47 on the jersey…Dicky Moegle was my idol! And, who could ever forget his game against Alabama in the Cotton Bowl.

    My cousin played at Rice in the early 70s. And I'm a little bit of a CFB historian so I've read about Moegle and the Bama linebacker who literally came off the bench to tackle him in the Cotton Bowl!

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    Baron

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    6 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

    Two future 24 team leagues set up similar to the NFL is probably on the table down the line IMO. 

    As long as they continue to play G5 schools and keep the panorama that is college sports I'm good with this.

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    BurntOrangeHorn

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    10 hours ago, Rickysonehitter said:

    It'll be Jim Tressel and there's nothing any of us can do about it. 

    Look out for Urban Meyer 😱

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    Nate Russ

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    11 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

    I hope they add divisions to those leagues like the Atlantic and Pacific coast plus maybe a region solely for the southeastern teams! 

     

    Wait a second...

    I do still want to see regional rival play. 5 games could revolve around regional teams/rivals and the other half being scheduled as tough or easy as you want. Big dawgs will pay to fight each other and create the money games.

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    Bobby Burton

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    7 hours ago, Nate Russ said:

    I do still want to see regional rival play. 5 games could revolve around regional teams/rivals and the other half being scheduled as tough or easy as you want. Big dawgs will pay to fight each other and create the money games.

    Totally agree. There has to be some regionality!

    Texas needs to play A&M and OU. Rivalries matter. 

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    tsip92

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    I don’t think the NCAA is going away, but big time football is going to change forever. There are too many schools (1,000+) and too many non-revenue sports that will continue to compete at some level.  The NCAA is really a victim (not in a sympathetic way) of having a membership that’s extremely diverse and they’ve failed to react to that quickly enough as the money for big time football and NIL has changed the landscape.  
     

    I look forward to the future 48 or 64 team premier league.  I’m tired of meaningless bowl games that no one attends and even fewer people watch.  100% free agency is upon us and it’s up to the premier league and a players group to determine how to regulate transfers, NIL, player contracts, etc.  The current situation is a mess. 

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