Breaking away. Could the SEC leave the NCAA in football?

[TheBannerM]

I think it's silly but there seems to be a lot of noise around the SEC taking their ball and playing with themselves - pun intended. The good news is State would 100% be included in a conference move like that, considering we're now the conference punching bag.

 

[patdog]

Not without the Big 10 they can't. With the Big 10, absolutely. But I think the threat is enough to get what they want within the NCAA.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Any breakaway would need to be pretty much the whole P4. Around 60-80 teams most likely at minimum.

What you're looking at is likely some split of FBS, into schools that want to pay rev share and ones that don't.

 

[coach66]

That’s the rumor and if it does happen supposedly cheating will not be tolerated and will result in the boot. Gonna be interesting!

 

[Allday.sixpack]

I’ve been told the NCAA negotiated to keep the SEC from leaving this year.
A premier 40 team college league has an 8 Billion dollar revenue.
I expect This will happen soon, and players will be employees. A professional minor league that will have a collective bargaining agreement with a player’s union and will wear our team’s logo and jersey until corporate greed realizes that our Mississippi Television viewer market is very small and we will be relegated.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

That’s the rumor and if it does happen supposedly cheating will not be tolerated and will result in the boot. Gonna be interesting!

 

[Walkthedawg]

I think it's silly but there seems to be a lot of noise around the SEC taking their ball and playing with themselves - pun intended. The good news is State would 100% be included in a conference move like that, considering we're now the conference punching bag.

Hopefully not before the UM and LSU mutually assured destruction kicks in.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

I’ve been told the NCAA negotiated to keep the SEC from leaving this year.
A premier 40 team college league has an 8 Billion dollar revenue.
I expect This will happen soon, and players will be employees. A professional minor league that will have a collective bargaining agreement with a player’s union and will wear our team’s logo and jersey until corporate greed realizes that our Mississippi Television viewer market is very small and we will be relegated.

Any college league will need to be a minimum of 60 (likely the entire P4). Fans (viewers) are the most important component in this. NC State, Kansas, Purdue, etc., all have fans that not only watch their team, but CFB games as a whole, eliminate those programs and eventually their fan will stop watching. We already have the NFL and "minor league" professional football fails at every point.

 

[El Perro Grande]

All P4 needs to do this and set their own rules for their conference. Break up the NCAA monopoly, and maybe we can have contracts that reward longevity, one transfer without sitting out if a coach leaves or graduate student, salary cap for revenue share, etc, Build a playoff around the conference P4 champs and top 16 teams regardless of conference, including a G conference if they're top 16.

 

[patdog]

I’ve been told the NCAA negotiated to keep the SEC from leaving this year.
A premier 40 team college league has an 8 Billion dollar revenue.
I expect This will happen soon, and players will be employees. A professional minor league that will have a collective bargaining agreement with a player’s union and will wear our team’s logo and jersey until corporate greed realizes that our Mississippi Television viewer market is very small and we will be relegated.

"I've been told." Yeah right. If "you've been told" it's by someone who doesn't have any more idea what's going to ultimately happen than I do.

 

[Dawg1976]

Boy wouldn’t that be meaningful…..an SEC only champ w/o playoffs against the BIG10 and the top few others. Won’t happen.

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

They can break away and make whatever rules they won't, but the first time a player / team doesn't get their way they sue in a sympathetic courtroom and said rule becomes null and void. Pandora is out of the box and the ***** blew it up so she can't ever go back in.

 

[The Peeper]

if it does happen supposedly cheating will not be tolerated and will result in the boot.

 

[STATEgrad04]

If the SEC did this alone, it would become the liv of college football. No sarcasterics.

 

[Dawgzilla2]

They can break away and make whatever rules they won't, but the first time a player / team doesn't get their way they sue in a sympathetic courtroom and said rule becomes null and void. Pandora is out of the box and the ***** blew it up so she can't ever go back in.

The idea is that we have multiple college leagues so there is no longer a monopsony and the anti trust rules no longer apply. If a college athlete has choices of which league to play in, then he cant complain about the rules of the league he chooses.

I just dont see how it would work for inter league play. The SEC and BIG will have the most liberal rules and pay the most. Why would schools from other leagues even want to compete against that?

I realize we have cupcake games now, and I guess those could continue, but I mean legit out of confernce opponents, and playoff hopefuls.