If Brando believes Stankey and Petitti are looking out for the good of the other conferences I want some of what he is smoking. Stankey and Petitti are looking out for the interests of the SEC and the Big 10, the others be damned.
Just a matter of time before the B1G and SEC began questioning why the NCAA should have any part of college athletics. The basketball tournament isn’t great because of the ncaa. The basketball tournament is great because of the tournament itself.
I would say the BB tournament is worse. Too many G5 teams, leaving out 3 or 4 Acc teams that should be in. I thought the tournament last year stank out load. The Sec and Big 10 still couldnt do anything.
Heading to 3 power conferences with 24 teams and a 16 team invitational football playoff with 4 guaranteed spots from each of them with 4 at large that could go to anyone including another team from the 3 power conferences. Make the players employees, collective bargaining, NIL, deduct the value of the full ride scholarship with all the support that goes with it for a football player from what they get paid. No division and conference championships unless those are also part of the playoff somehow to limit number of games and that most people don’t care about such. Each conference can name and give a trophy out for it based upon win/loss and tiebreakers.
I like Nil I think it levels the field and the Sec and Big 10 don't like it. The Big 10 and Sec especially the Sec can't stock pile the players. I would like to see the Acc and Big 10 pull out. The Sec and Big 10 are looking out for themselves. Now that paying the players and Nil is open they are scared to death that they ll lose control. If they are so concerned about others let the power 4 each have the same amount of teams in the playoff. I ve heard it suggested do away with conferences all together when it comes to football. Let each school be on their own. There is no reason for the Sec or Big 10 when it comes to football.
This isn’t a healthy path. College football has grown and become a tremendously popular sport, and now they’re going to ruin it paying players does not improve the product never has in any sport. In fact, it usually makes it worse the more you pay them.
I’m not sure the Madness is perfect, but further expanding it would sure seem destined to screw it up. It doesn’t need the 69th or 70th best teams. Sorry, you missed the boat.
Brando is blind to what is coming isn't he? He thinks this is good for ALL of Division 1? What is far more likely to happen is the SEC & Big 10 each expand to 24 teams further filling out their national footprints. Then they break away into their own league. Of course teams like Notre Dame, Virginia, FSU, Miami, North Carolina, etc would join one of the two mega conferences. NCAA division 1 has 134 teams currently. This would reset into an NFL style AFC / NFL (Big 10 / SEC) setup with the top 48 teams in the country. That is far more likely than what Brando thinks is going to happen. Players would be employees of the conference not the team. This would allow players to be paid while having to sign contracts so they can't just jump in the portal each year looking for more money. This would allow for a much more logical playoff system and a much bigger payday for all schools involved. The only issue is for the 86 teams who are left on the outside of this new joint league.
I don’t think Ive ever disagreed with Tim Brando before, but I do on this subject - the SEC & Big10 commissioners are NOT reaching for what's best for college football, college sports - all of division 1. They are overreaching bookoo greedy, too greedy, to a sickening degree.
Thhis is where the CFP likely winds up - SEC/B1G get 4 automatic bid, B12/ACC get 2 auto bids; rest of conferences get 1 auto bid with 3 remaining at large bids. No Automatic seed bids, no byes. ND must contend for one of the auto bids.
I was agreeing with Tim Hyde right down the line until he got to the signing day proposal. While I don't think that we need 3 signing days, I do think that the December signing date needs to be moved to the summer. The only real purposes of an early signing period should be: first, to facilitate so-called "early entrance to school", (damn few football players enroll in August after a full 4 years of high school, that's Roman chariot days); and second, to provide time for both the schools and HS players to evaluate their needs/opportunities in light of the early signees. At present, there really is no need for the regular signing period. The gap between the two signing periods needs to be sufficiently large for both players and coaches to make thoughtful decisions.
College basketball doesn't need the NCAA for a tournament - take "NCAA" out of "NCAA Basketball Tournament" and it's still the same tournament. Wait, NO, it's an even BETTER tournament. ABOLISH THE NCAA!
Big Ten and SEC are well on the way to 24 teams. If Florida State, Miami, Notre Dame, and a Clemson, Georgia Tech and Pitt join it’s at 24. SEC can pick up North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Duke plus one other.
Supply and demand on the heals of the pay disparity between skill positions vs the lines. Kirby Smart was just talking at Pate State about having trouble getting linemen.
It says if people forget history, this type of thing is going to open up a canna worms that some of you all don’t even realize just like everybody was excited and progressive about NILNO they deserve to be transfer portal look how old short time it’s been corrupted and abused. All the stuff pay for play Cher is bad for the sport. You start giving more more power next you’ll have unions then you’ll have outside influences in the sport and 5-10 years from now half of you that support this kind of thing won’t even recognize them anymore. We dont learn
If I could like this 10,000 times I would. Glad Brando got out from under CBS and the SEC's thumb and can speak the truth now, unlike our friend Derp Fraudstreit.
I’ve always liked him Brando, but on this subject, I couldn’t disagree more. The idea that 18 year olds should be getting paid. Millions is no longer college. It’s pro. The idea that pay for play or profit sharing is good for college. Football is absolutely ridiculous. In one breath he says the big 12 is fine. The next breath he’s talking about Michigan being able to pay its players will how does Baylor or how old is Iowa State keep up with it if you think the gap as white now it’s only going to get more wide. This is common sense. I hope you have him back on your show and 2-3 years from now. He’s wrong. Period
The gap was ALWAYS going to get more wide. Might as well make it above board and stop denying the reality of a sport that was never truly collegiate to begin with.
