(06-05-2015 05:39 PM)Eagles Cliff Wrote:  

(06-05-2015 02:29 PM)Usajags Wrote:  The NCAA knows that if they death penalty one of the "Big Boys" that they will take their ball and go play somewhere else, and we can all see what a super conference with no NCAA supervision will look like.

It would probably include paying players beyond scholarships and calling it something like "full cost of attendance" along with a championship not sanctioned by the NCAA and controlled by a big media company.

Nice!!!

Just imagine if this would've happened at a Sun Belt or any other lower division school. The NCAA would drop the hammer on them.

(06-07-2015 09:19 AM)ManOnABuffalo Wrote:  

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(06-05-2015 05:39 PM)Eagles Cliff Wrote:  

(06-05-2015 02:29 PM)Usajags Wrote:  The NCAA knows that if they death penalty one of the "Big Boys" that they will take their ball and go play somewhere else, and we can all see what a super conference with no NCAA supervision will look like.

It would probably include paying players beyond scholarships and calling it something like "full cost of attendance" along with a championship not sanctioned by the NCAA and controlled by a big media company.

To me, the solution is to end the charade that big time college athletics are amateur in nature when most rational adults realize that's not the case.

One solution would to simply call things what they are. College athletics should probably be restructured from D-1, D-2, D-3, etc., into more realistic divisions or classifications -- those where either all or part of a program's players are school employees and thus paid for their services -- and those where student-athletes compete against one another.

If the big boys want to go play somewhere else, let them. The only one who benefits from their presence is the NCAA anyway.