... and away we go .....

[CajunT]

And it appears teams can come and go. So there’s also a shout out to the fans of relegation. Well kinda.

Well, since there will be no NCAA regulations if they separate. That would depend upon which regulations you are talking about.

[ZoomZoom]

Well the Vanderbilts, Indianas, Kentuckys and others will soon want the same for MBB. That is how they will stay in the club.

[R1Letterman]

They should just make the scholarships numbers cumulative and let schools decide which sports they want to focus on. If you want to have 85 football Walkons but 95 baseball scholarships so be it.

[CajunT]

Well the Vanderbilts, Indianas, Kentuckys and others will soon want the same for MBB. That is how they will stay in the club.

It won't keep those schools with the best football programs, that's what this separation is about.

[Duckster]

You and I have talked about this a number of years going back before Maggard was hired and some people laughed at us on RP. I thought the number that would eventually separate was around 40 or 50, but that number will be much less than that when it settles.

TV probably wants it narrowed down to about 32, a nice neat bracket. Just like the NFL.

[Duckster]

First, it should be said the NCAA should have allowed modest stipends to athletes years ago. Increasing $$ from freshman thru senior year. But not a socialistic stance that every athlete in every sport mens or womens gets the same $$. Non PC Alert: The proposal of 50% to women athletes is just asinine especially now with NCAA allowing men to declare their womanhood playing college athletics. Insanity. I've got two daughters that played track & field and swimming long ago so am all about girls having opportunities to play sports, too. But not at any cost to be all things to all people. The NCAA can collapse under the weight of its stupidity and social agenda for all I care.

[CajunNation]

From the most knowledgeable person I know about the business of collegiate athletics, Arkstfan, .....

Baker's plan is DOA.

He's grasping trying to find a hook to get Congress to grant an anti-trust exemption and that ain't it.

The Power 5 now 4 crapped the nest.

You can wax poetic about the amateur nature of college athletics all you want but it's a hard sell when coaches make $10 million and assistants have hit $2 million. Who believes this is an amateur pursuit when hundreds of millions of dollars are plowed into facilities?

Schools are blowing through $150 million and more and it took losing lawsuit after lawsuit to just get players full cost of attendance and the right to profit from their name, image, and likeness. What did the beast do? The beast set up NIL "collectives" giant "tip jars" for fans. NOT THE $150 million enterprise, but the fans to pay the players. The schools turned the kids pro with the collectives because payment is not related to NIL but projected or established on field or on court value. They organize the scheme but don't use "their" money to fund it.

I used this example on our board.

St Jude's Children's Research Hospital is a leading childhood cancer research facility. They spend about $2 billion a year, roughly 10X what Texas A&M athletics spends. St. Jude has two people making more than $1 million, none make $2 million. If St Jude the charitable hospital and research facility was irresponsible paying salaries as Texas A&M's charitable foundation for athletics, it would be a massive national scandal.

Ain't no one in Congress or the courts coming to save college football until they do something HUGE to make it worth saving from a verdict that players are employees and the colleges have illegally conspired to suppress earnings of players.

[CajunNation]

Having second thoughts on this.

Looking at chatter on other boards and reading more on what the author of the proposal thinks, the number of schools being kicked around as being able to "opt-in" to this deal is closer to 100.

If that many schools are going to do this, I would want to be in that group.

[CajunRebel]

This is definitely not good for us in softball and baseball. Better make the WCWS and CWS soon.

This. This is devastating and will kill us fully and completely in every sport. We can’t compete in any sport with schools who are willing to drop a minimum of 30k per athlete.

[ZoomZoom]

Well, since there will be no NCAA regulations if they separate. That would depend upon which regulations you are talking about.

Relegation…like euro soccer standings.