Is It Time For Government To Step In And Save College Sports From Itself?????

[Mountainman]

Conn Carroll from The Washington Examiner thinks so…….


The NCAA is already lobbying Congress for new regulations on players' name, image, and likeness revenue. There is no reason the legislative solution to that issue couldn’t also include new guidelines for preserving the regional identity and tradition of college football conferences.

Anything would be an improvement over the existing conference structure, but an ideal solution could look like this:

ACC
Maryland, Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Florida State.

Big East
Syracuse, Boston College, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, Miami.

Big Ten
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State.

Big West
BYU, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa State.

Pac-10
Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, California, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State.

SEC
LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida.

Southwest
Texas Tech, Baylor, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Houston, Arkansas, Memphis, Louisville.


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[Mountainman]

Interesting……..


https://www.si.com/college/2023/08/15/n ... disruptive


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[Spence]

Anytime the government enters in to help look out. I believe it was the late president Reagan who said that the scariest words in the English language are “I am from the government and I am here to help”

[Derek]

I like the idea of the "super conferences" being abandoned, but that coming at the expense of 'guv-mint' (southern pronunciation) involvement is not acceptable to me.