I can see it now.
1. B1G and SEC withdraw from the NCAA.
2. M1G and SEC form a non-profit LLC, which will be available to
3. Collectively bargain with their new union employees (players).
4. FSU wins lawsuit against the ACC, due to its being in the ACC limits $ opportunities for FSU athletes.
5. Two 24 school Super-conferences are born.
6. CFB is now dead.
I see it as CFB is now being saved. NCAA is a relic of the past, you either evolve and change with the times, or you die, and they are just about dead- and they have no one to blame here but themselves.
By the way, there are
way too many D-1/FBS teams as things stand. 138 or whatever the hell it is now is a joke. No one cares about 75% of these teams. It's
way too bloated as is. 48 or so can break off, the other 90 can stay in the NCAA and stay FBS or go back down to FCS- who fcking cares. Sayonara, see ya later, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
This is what needs to happen, and the thing will be saved...
B1G & SEC leave the NCAA, band together, swallow up what's worth taking from ACC, ND, etc., and form a super league of about 48 teams.
They form and join a new governing body called the NCFA or NCFL or some shit like that- National College Football Association or National College Football League. Whatever. The schools will all own ownership in the NCFA/NCFL. NCFA/NCFL negotiates even more ginormous insane TV contracts than the B1G/SEC presently have on their own and forms their own playoff, which they will now own, so F right off ESPN.
The players will now become employees, sign contracts, unionize, and sign a CBA with the NCFA/NCFL. There is an agreed upon spend/salary cap on what schools can pay their players- best thing would probably be a wage scale based on position and class (QB's make more than other positions and so on and so forth, SRs make more than Fresh), can throw in bonuses for players hitting certain academic marks, graduating early - whatever. This kills the portal, because now that kids are signing contracts and being compensated as employees, they can't just leave willy nilly. This likely also drastically cuts down on NIL being used as an inducement for recruiting- as these kids are getting paid the same thing base no matter where they go in this new NCFA/NCFL, and the NIL will start going to who it was intended to- the established bonafide star players of the NCFA/NCFL and not snot nosed high school kids who haven't done or proven sh*t all in some desperate attempt to get them to come to x,y,z school.