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I'm sure some of the elite programs have had serious thoughts, maybe even discussions among themselves about kicking the NCAA to the curb.

They just haven't come up with a better solution for now

The problem is all the other non-football non-revenue sports.  Where do you park them?  Who governs them?  Who calls the shots and makes the rules?

If the top tier of football schools move their football programs out of the NCAA and out of the existing conference structure, are the have-not left-behinds going to allow them to attach their non-revenue sports to what's left of the conferences?  If you say "yes" then WHY?  We're already talking about non-revenue sports here.  They don't generate any money.  There's no value to be gained by Illinois or Mississippi State for losing the football revenue from Ohio State and Alabama, but allowing their gymnastics programs to linger on.  Beyond just the obvious pettiness and vindictiveness, there's literally no economic value for Miss State in being associated with Alabama in anything other than football.  So why would they do it?

The problem is all the other non-football non-revenue sports.  Where do you park them?  Who governs them?  Who calls the shots and makes the rules?

the same entity that governs the top football programs
just like today
it's really just another governing body, it's just not called the NCAA
that's why they haven't changed

why wouldn't the other sports follow the football programs?

they can't survive w/o football money

and title IX would throw a major lawsuit at the universities

and why would you have the NCAA govern most of your sports programs but not football?

I've never been one to say it's gonna happen

I'm just saying that if it happened the NCAA and the other sports would go along with it.

blowing up the NCAA and starting fresh with a new governing body might happen, but I'd guess all sports would be under that new body

you could be right

I hope we never find out

The NCAA IS the member organizations, its replacement would be the same thing.  They could alter rules, and do all the time, instead of flushing it all.

Large organizations function effectively in inverse proportion to size.  I worked for one, a lot of the silliness and nonsense that happened could not happen for long with a small outfit.  They'd go under quickly.

The NCAA IS the member organizations, its replacement would be the same thing.  They could alter rules, and do all the time, instead of flushing it all.

Large organizations function effectively in inverse proportion to size.  I worked for one, a lot of the silliness and nonsense that happened could not happen for long with a small outfit.  They'd go under quickly.

I think the idea is that a breakaway league would have fewer members, and so could be more streamlined in its rules creation, and enforcement.  I do think there's some merit to the idea that only having to make rules to appease the top 32 or so football schools, all of whom are presumably "haves", would make things simpler, cleaner, and more transparent.  Less need for rules to protect the small and weak, among other things.

But ultimately I still think that bureaucratic bloat would eventually lead to something not all that different from the NCAA.