CFP discussing potential of restructuring how college football is governed

thegtstunner08 said:
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Sources: CFP mulls breaking football out of NCAA

The 11 college presidents and chancellors who make up the College Football Playoff's board of managers met via Zoom on Monday and began a discussion that could reshape the future of college sports, sources told ESPN.
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If you were to apply the dollars that the college football makes for the NCAA, it would be more than all the rest of the NCAA sports. combined. I mean, has to. Coaches in football make more. The fans seem to be more into the football, than any other sport. I agree with what Tampa said. "Nothing college about it except the name of the new professional NFL AAA affiliate." That isn't a wrong statement.
 
Jmonty71 said:
If you were to apply the dollars that the college football makes for the NCAA, it would be more than all the rest of the NCAA sports. combined. I mean, has to. Coaches in football make more. The fans seem to be more into the football, than any other sport. I agree with what Tampa said. "Nothing college about it except the name of the new professional NFL AAA affiliate." That isn't a wrong statement.
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Yeah but the reason it makes so much money is that it’s tied to the college, and regional rivalries grew fanbases of people who went to those colleges. The more it drifts towards a minor league system and away from regional rivalries the less interest it will draw.

Or I could be wrong and a UCLA grad is going to be psyched about watching a team full of 20 year olds from Texas whose only tie to the school is the logo on their helmets play Rutgers at 9am.
 
gtrower said:
Yeah but the reason it makes so much money is that it’s tied to the college, and regional rivalries grew fanbases of people who went to those colleges. The more it drifts towards a minor league system and away from regional rivalries the less interest it will draw.

Or I could be wrong and a UCLA grad is going to be psyched about watching a team full of 20 year olds from Texas whose only tie to the school is the logo on their helmets play Rutgers at 9am.
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The UCLA grad likes to watch football. It’s only natural that he or she is going to be interested in the team that represents where they went to school or where they watched football teams in their youth. It’s pretty much the same with the NFL. Most people that like football watch the team they liked from their youth.
 
I am glad the Presidents are considering breaking college football away from other sports. Conference expansion driven solely for football reasons has been ludicrous for other sports - the travel for Los Angeles athletes to places like Maryland, Rutgers and Penn State in sports that play a whole lot more than 12 games like football is ridiculous.

I am ready for these Presidents to get this done. I think a two conference football super division - SEC and Big 10 - will be fine. They need to decide the number - 40? 48? 64? I think We get into a 64 group, probably. I doubt we get in to a group of 40 or 48, but it could happen.

But, let’s say they go to 48 and we are out. That would be bad. But, then we establish football only conferences for the next 48. We would play the other left out ACC schools, some AAC schools, some Big 12, and the top handful in Sun Belt. There would be a TV market for this second tier. With a 16 team playoff there would be interest. What would be nice would be two pre-season games and then an 11 game regular season with a conference division of 12 teams. It would be different, but playing two pre-season games against Georgia and whomever followed by 11 games from among Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Duke, Wake, UCF, N C State, UVA, Pitt, Syracuse, Navy, Army, App State, Memphis, ECU, Coastal Carolina, Tulane, etc. with a good chance to make a 16 team playoff would not kill my interest in Tech football.

The worst scenario of all is to drag this out over time, with the SEC and Big 10 poaching a couple of teams they want every few years.
 
77GTFan said:
I am glad the Presidents are considering breaking college football away from other sports. Conference expansion driven solely for football reasons has been ludicrous for other sports - the travel for Los Angeles athletes to places like Maryland, Rutgers and Penn State in sports that play a whole lot more than 12 games like football is ridiculous.

I am ready for these Presidents to get this done. I think a two conference football super division - SEC and Big 10 - will be fine. They need to decide the number - 40? 48? 64? I think We get into a 64 group, probably. I doubt we get in to a group of 40 or 48, but it could happen.

But, let’s say they go to 48 and we are out. That would be bad. But, then we establish football only conferences for the next 48. We would play the other left out ACC schools, some AAC schools, some Big 12, and the top handful in Sun Belt. There would be a TV market for this second tier. With a 16 team playoff there would be interest. What would be nice would be two pre-season games and then an 11 game regular season with a conference division of 12 teams. It would be different, but playing two pre-season games against Georgia and whomever followed by 11 games from among Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Duke, Wake, UCF, N C State, UVA, Pitt, Syracuse, Navy, Army, App State, Memphis, ECU, Coastal Carolina, Tulane, etc. with a good chance to make a 16 team playoff would not kill my interest in Tech football.

The worst scenario of all is to drag this out over time, with the SEC and Big 10 poaching a couple of teams they want every few years.
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öööö the mutts, there is absolutely no reason to play them anymore in that scenario.
 
BigDanT said:
You play them to beat them. Quit acting like a little bitch.
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Under the proposed future, and knowing the power UGAg has in this state and in the SEC, us playing them would be about like Mercer demanding to play them.
 
77GTFan said:
I am glad the Presidents are considering breaking college football away from other sports. Conference expansion driven solely for football reasons has been ludicrous for other sports - the travel for Los Angeles athletes to places like Maryland, Rutgers and Penn State in sports that play a whole lot more than 12 games like football is ridiculous.

I am ready for these Presidents to get this done. I think a two conference football super division - SEC and Big 10 - will be fine. They need to decide the number - 40? 48? 64? I think We get into a 64 group, probably. I doubt we get in to a group of 40 or 48, but it could happen.

But, let’s say they go to 48 and we are out. That would be bad. But, then we establish football only conferences for the next 48. We would play the other left out ACC schools, some AAC schools, some Big 12, and the top handful in Sun Belt. There would be a TV market for this second tier. With a 16 team playoff there would be interest. What would be nice would be two pre-season games and then an 11 game regular season with a conference division of 12 teams. It would be different, but playing two pre-season games against Georgia and whomever followed by 11 games from among Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Duke, Wake, UCF, N C State, UVA, Pitt, Syracuse, Navy, Army, App State, Memphis, ECU, Coastal Carolina, Tulane, etc. with a good chance to make a 16 team playoff would not kill my interest in Tech football.

The worst scenario of all is to drag this out over time, with the SEC and Big 10 poaching a couple of teams they want every few years.
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I hate this.
 
I can’t wait for the day the NCAA I’d dead. I will applaud. They had their chance for over a 100 years and every turn they took the path of greed and then preached to everyone about”ethics”, “student-athletes”, etc. I’ll take an honest scumbag everyday over a false prophet. We most recently heard the absurdity of it all from our own conference commish during that press conference during ACC media week. Dude gave a speech like it was 1952 and we are all stupid. I’ll take whatever system is implemented next over the NCAA who took down our banner while Bama, UGA, Auburn, FSU, Florida still have theirs. They gave SMU the death penalty yet Dooley was carried off the field. I can’t wait.
 
Jmonty71 said:
If you were to apply the dollars that the college football makes for the NCAA, it would be more than all the rest of the NCAA sports. combined. I mean, has to. Coaches in football make more. The fans seem to be more into the football, than any other sport. I agree with what Tampa said. "Nothing college about it except the name of the new professional NFL AAA affiliate." That isn't a wrong statement.
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College football does not make the NCAA much money at all.

College basketball and specifically March Madness drive the NCAA’s revenue. Football does make money for schools and conferences.
 
Jmonty71 said:
If you were to apply the dollars that the college football makes for the NCAA, it would be more than all the rest of the NCAA sports. combined. I mean, has to. Coaches in football make more. The fans seem to be more into the football, than any other sport. I agree with what Tampa said. "Nothing college about it except the name of the new professional NFL AAA affiliate." That isn't a wrong statement.
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Actually the NCAA makes very little from football. The conferences and schools do because they control the tv contracts not the NCAA. The NCAA moneymaker is March Madness which dwarfs what they make on football. The NCAA wild card is if the big schools breakaway football, the NCAA could conceivably not sanction their other sports and thus eliminate them from NCAA championships.
 
77GTFan said:
I am glad the Presidents are considering breaking college football away from other sports. Conference expansion driven solely for football reasons has been ludicrous for other sports - the travel for Los Angeles athletes to places like Maryland, Rutgers and Penn State in sports that play a whole lot more than 12 games like football is ridiculous.

I am ready for these Presidents to get this done. I think a two conference football super division - SEC and Big 10 - will be fine. They need to decide the number - 40? 48? 64? I think We get into a 64 group, probably. I doubt we get in to a group of 40 or 48, but it could happen.

But, let’s say they go to 48 and we are out. That would be bad. But, then we establish football only conferences for the next 48. We would play the other left out ACC schools, some AAC schools, some Big 12, and the top handful in Sun Belt. There would be a TV market for this second tier. With a 16 team playoff there would be interest. What would be nice would be two pre-season games and then an 11 game regular season with a conference division of 12 teams. It would be different, but playing two pre-season games against Georgia and whomever followed by 11 games from among Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Duke, Wake, UCF, N C State, UVA, Pitt, Syracuse, Navy, Army, App State, Memphis, ECU, Coastal Carolina, Tulane, etc. with a good chance to make a 16 team playoff would not kill my interest in Tech football.

The worst scenario of all is to drag this out over time, with the SEC and Big 10 poaching a couple of teams they want every few years.
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It's kinda ludicrous for football too if we expect the students to actually do school and it makes it harder for fans to travel. I'll go to away games 1 state away, but I'm not flying to Pittsburgh, Virginia, or Indiana.
 
Tech will not be part of this. Enjoy Tech football while it still lasts...
 
MACHETE said:
Tech will not be part of this. Enjoy Tech football while it still lasts...
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If you can get past the annoying voice and "radio face", this guy has a very reasoned prediction.

ENDGAME* Future Realignment Super Conferences

We survive as a member of the BIG12 along with 3 other ACC teams (Pitt, VT, Louisville)
ESPN will get back into the B1G by paying big for the "After Dark" slot after B1G raids the PAC12 of 4 more teams in order to give USC/UCLA more west coast/rivalry games.
End result is 3 Super Conferences and ND as an Independent. PAC12 is no more.

I could live with this as an alternative to the Sun Belt. Great travel states (BIG12 will also take CU, ASU, Utah, and UA)
 
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