jalopy
New Member
I see what you are saying, but here is the problem with your argument. The schools are the NCAA ... the NCAA isn't some independent group. The schools and the NCAA are one and the same. If the schools in the 5 AQs decide that they want to split off in their own division, with their own rules (primarily paying players which the non-AQ teams can't afford), they will do so. There is nothing stopping them.
At that point, they have no more incentive than they do now to bring in non-AQ schools. If a school can't bring in money so that the pie gets bigger, they won't get an invite. The only thing you will see is Cincy, UConn, BYU and maybe a few others get into the ACC or the BIGXII. I think the BIGXII in particular has to get to 12 so they can do a CG. Then you would have 5 conferences in a division all of which play a CG. 4 team playoff for now, maybe goes to 8 for the new division championship.
You will then have a similar scenario with the remaining teams in their division.
I'm not quite sure where you are going with this but the statement "The schools and the NCAA are one and the same." perplexes me. I believe it was 1984 when the Supreme Court rules exactly the opposite and gave universities control of their own media rights. As college football stands now, the NCAA is involved only on a tertiary level. The have no say in the BCS whatsoever and the same can be said for the impending College Football Playoff.
To those that say that teams won't leave the NCAA, I wold say that , in a sense, they already have. Recruiting guidelines are probably the NCAA's only major control left and even that is questionable. The rules they passed in January received so much kick back that the suspended them. It would actually be a small leap for the conferences to form a separate division. Whether or that division stays under the NCAA umbrella is inconsequential.