Well said...I still think 8 divisions of 8 with the top 3 teams for each makes rhe most sense if we go over 40 or so programs. 40 works still as a 12 team playoff. 4 conferences of 10...each auto spots. Lots of potential for fun but we'll see.
yeah...it is a problem. The SEC and B1G hold their reigns of power and aren't going to give that up without compensation.It does not seem like the power 2 is very interested in working with the rest of college football. There’s a reason the two are meeting this week privately. When the SEC commissioner is the voice of reason, you know we are strange times - “I’ve been interested in some of these (college football) league ideas that are generated out of Manhattan, as I see it,” Sankey said at SEC spring meetings. “Never mention academics in their pitch deck. It’s fascinating. Never once say anything about a young person’s education. Not a lot of evaluation about who benefits from this participation, about the level of control that’s ceded by public universities to private equity.”As college football super league pitches swirl, will the Big Ten and SEC sign on or take over? — The Athletic
Many in and around college football are trying to determine what comes next. One question hovers over all of it: Who will be in charge?apple.news
You know he is absolutely spot on. Why should public universities give up autonomy to private equity coming out of New York or LA? The article specifically mentions us and OSU/UM regarding the possibilities of just leaving the current Conference structures and moving with a relatively few others to an elite league, acknowledging there are makers and takers in the power 2, and PSU is a maker. Why should a maker like PSU give up control to private equity to participate in one of these 70-136 proposed leagues like project Rudy to ensure the well-being of dozens and dozens of schools who produce very little attendance and tv viewership? We already produce enough revenue to handle our own business. Is it our responsibility to ensure the well-being of the Virginia’s and UNLVs who per the actual numbers generate little interest in their own states let alone nationally. Sankey says it best regarding broader super leagues - “They want to be us, and that’s on them to figure it out, not on me to bring myself back to earth.”
Has it ever been competitive beyond five or six teams in the last 50 years? Not often.
IT has. If you go back before cable TV, before the early 2000s, it was fairly competitive. Starting in 2000
There’s different teams there, but each year they were really only a few teams that were super competitive similar to today. Miami, Nebraska, Florida, FSU, PSU, OSU, ND, OK, Bama, Georgia dominated eras with only a few teams truly able to compete for a title each year. Single schools have owned entire cfb for periods of time like Bama recently or Nebraska in the past. Most had great traditions and some were paying players. Here is an aggregate ranking from Yahoo for the 80s for example. The powers listed are little different than the powers listed today other than the order and Nebraska falling from the pinnacle.
College football has always been the haves and have Nots and always will be no matter what system is proposed. Compensation has always been part of it as well at some schools, essentially creating the effect of buying success.
He just doesn't like change so he's pretending things are worse now. Look at recent teams that made a four team playoff including TCU and Cincinnati. Their logic is wrong.
And why would the SEC or Big Ten help bail out ND? I don't disagree ND is likely a driving force behind this but they're powerless and they know it. Two commissioners control everything
Maybe behind the scenes, Notre Dame holds a lot more power than fans realize. Maybe they know information about people or organizations that could get those involved in big-big trouble and thus use that knowledge to get what they want. Anything is possible when it comes to billion-dollar industries.
You didn't. I was just asking in general why they would...don't think anyone has a real answer for it
I understand his concern and I share it as well, but I don’t hold any fantasy in my mind about what has been in this sport for decades - domination by a few schools in each era and payments to players. The payments have been going on for decades, happening illegally before at some schools and only now is legal for all.
Not liking it is fine...and understandable
Well, I would be interested to know...I tried to check and I count 21 different winners in the past 50 years...many of them won numerous-georgia, alabama, lsu, clemson, ohio state, florida state, auburn, florida, texas, southern cal, miami, oklahoma, nebraska, michigan, tennessee, washington, colorado, georgia tech, notre dame, bringham young, pittsburgh
But they weren't all good at the same time. Nothing changes. There's still going to be elite programs then teams that make runs. See Iowa State this year. Or TCU/Cincinnati/Michigan State making the playoff.
Each year there are perhaps 5 or 6 teams, typically out of the winners you list, that are elite (and sometimes less, maybe 2 or 3.) The rest, well greater than 100 schools, literally have no shot whatsoever. That will never change.
