Re: TNET: Report: ACC meeting over potentially adding Pac-12 schools, won't 'draw out' decision

It's not about the NCAA's rights. Individual schools have rights that they can grant to other organizations.

And it would be conceivable for all of the "power 5" schools to reorganize in a way that created a national league with divisions and oversight by the NCAA. That's what should be on the table if fairness and equity were motivating factors. But, they're not.

Teams in the B1G and SEC make a lot of money. But that's not the most important aspect of their deals. The most important aspect is that they make MORE money than most other teams. They have the ability to invest heavily in their football programs, which will perpetuate their dominance. Clemson, today, has enough money to compete with anyone. But, give it another decade and see where we are after making 100s of millions less than schools like Maryland, Rutgers, Vanderbilt and South Carolina.

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Aug 8, 2023, 11:55 AM

In a way, this trend is setting up for a 3 or 4 tier college football system. With the Big-10 and SEC basically corralling more and more of the power football schools that basically makes most of the other schools also rans. So it might in the long term go to something I think college football has needed to do for a long time. Do we really need 120 teams that are technically contenders for the national championship when only 25 of them are actually given a snowball's chance in hell right out of the gate in the fall?
Would it not be better to eliminate all of the conferences and have four college divisions with a championship for each one? Let the top two move up and the bottom two move down for each conference each year. Soccer has played this way in Europe for a long time. It lets programs that get better move up and those that are fading move down and still play for a championship, still get TV time, etc.

Take UConn for example. Why in the Eff are they in the same division as Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State etc? They can't win recruits because they can't win anything meaningful. So why torture one of the big football schools with having UConn in its schedule?

Would it not be a much better league if teams like Clemson, Georgia, or Florida State had to play each other twice in a season and get into the playoff's based on meaningful stats instead of some journalists' opinions?

I am all for all the prominent football schools rolling up together into a couple of conferences. Ultimately it will be good for college football. Clemson just needs to get off its nut while it still has a chance and roll up with the other big boys.

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TNET: Report: ACC meeting over potentially adding Pac-12 schools, won't 'draw out' decision