Think about it. The thing that reinforces the myth of superiority is playing patsies from other conferences, coupled with having winning records. Take away those two things and the SEC and B1G become just another conference that has a couple of good teams.
How does TV money get handled in this scenario of promotion and relegation? Let me know. The Big10 and SEC are already at the top and trying to lock that permanently in as best they can, they aren't going to agree to a TV revenue situation where any of their teams might fall, and they aren't going to agree to equal revenue distribution with the other leagues/conferences/levels.
The SEC also, over the last ten years, signed 155 5 star recruits … 3 times that of the ACC at 52.
I don't think anyone is arguing that the SEC and B1G are not the strongest conferences in football. How that strength should be recognized in the CFP is the point where opinions diverge.
The ncaa presidents run ncaa, but fail to limit excessive inventoring the best players.
The fact that all conferences agreed to let them run it is one pretty big vote.
Totally agree. If you want parity, cap the roster, limit the size of paid/unpaid staff, etc.
Thanks.
The real problem is that all schools are not alike. Like HS, there should be tiers where schools of similar resources can compete against each other. Even within the SEC or B1G, only a handful of teams are good on a consistent basis.
There was a time when scholarship limits could have been used to achieve more parity. With NIL, that approach would no longer be as effective. It would have to be a pretty deep cut, since the blue-chip players could get enough through NIL to not care about a scholly.
One of the issues in CFB today is that the money is unequally distributed. It should be that the NCAA, not the conferences, negotiates a media deal and then, distributes the money to all participating schools. They can still leverage their fanbases for support, but that would be a big step to equalize access to resources that is increasingly out of reach for many schools.
Doesn’t change what I said though.
An interesting concept. They do that for the basketball tournament, but the CFP got ahead of them for football. Not sure how it could ever change to NCAA governance.
You said "The thing that reinforces the myth of superiority is playing patsies from other conferences, coupled with having winning records. Take away those two things and the SEC and B1G become just another conference that has a couple of good teams."
The problem for CFB is that they want NFL like money, but don't organize themselves like the NFL. Can imagine if all 32 NFL teams let 6 determine who gets spots in the Playoffs and who gets what share of the revenue? All CFB has done is lock in who the perpetual winners are.
The roblmbecomes TV viewers are highly concentrated on Tier 1 in your scheme. Tire 1 schools then will want proportional money commensurate with viewers. TV networks will agree as that is where their money comes from. Soon there after Tires 2-4 are FCS and Division II level schools.
The University of Oklahoma and others sued the NCAA back in 1984 for the rights to create TV contracts and be on the air more often
The Tier stuff is a bunch of crap. Just look at some games and make a rating.
