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I think the Big Ten conference should police it's own.  Why push the dirty work off on the NCAA?
the Big Ten conference is obviously allowing cheating against it's own members

Bug Eater WTH do you think is the NCAA's job in the 1st place??? It's not Dirty work they have been paid abundantly to regulate infractions to begin with.They have failed thus eliminating them will allow the "Big Ten conference to police it's own". Now do you get it?

Bug Eater WTH do you think is the NCAA's job in the 1st place??? It's not Dirty work they have been paid abundantly to regulate infractions to begin with.They have failed thus eliminating them will allow the "Big Ten conference should police it's own". Now do you get it?

People are constantly lamenting how weak and toothless the NCAA is.  And they're right. 

If you want serious enforcement, then I can understand Fearless' appeal to have the conference do it rather than the NCAA.  If your response to that is, "Well then, what the heck is the NCAA any good for?" well I think that's a fair question, and the answer is, not much.

But because the conference controls the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars to its member schools, it has much stronger capability to compel compliance.

Donovan Edwards moved on 

Much to Walter Payton & Barry Sanders chagrin.

Bob Stoops Weighs In On Michigan's WEAK Punishment

https://youtu.be/2zZBITbKWiE?t=1667

This, Pate, etc.  Just more examples.  The divide here isn't tOSU vs everyone else it is everyone who thinks integrity vs the Michigan "men".  

Early on in this saga @ELA called Michigan the "Auburn of the North" and I think it was an LSU fan that called that insulting.  It is insulting . . . to Auburn.  

One dirtbag program has:

• The worst cheating scandal in the modern history of CFB
• The worst cheating scandal in the modern history of CBB
• The worst cheating scandal in the modern history of College Baseball

The entire program is trash.  

As well as a much stronger conflict of interest to not upset the cash cow programs.

True enough.

I'm not saying it would work any better, I'm just saying I understand the appeal to try something different, to try something other than the thing that we already know doesn't work and hasn't worked for over half a century.

As well as a much stronger conflict of interest to not upset the cash cow programs.

I believe that this is the heart of the matter. Money talks and the conference doesn't want to do anything to rock that boat. 

People are constantly lamenting how weak and toothless the NCAA is.  And they're right.

If you want serious enforcement, then I can understand Fearless' appeal to have the conference do it rather than the NCAA.  If your response to that is, "Well then, what the heck is the NCAA any good for?" well I think that's a fair question, and the answer is, not much.

But because the conference controls the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars to its member schools, it has much stronger capability to compel compliance.

As well as a much stronger conflict of interest to not upset the cash cow programs.

You are both correct.  There also is a problem with conferences doing it because the SEC is going to look at Michigan getting away with murder and not want to penalize one of their members when the B1G didn't and that general concept will perpetually and go both ways.  SEC fans will ALWAYS say that B1G teams do worse and B1G fans will ALWAYS say that SEC teams do worse.  

Now more than ever we need a competent and fast moving governing body to handle both player and program discipline.  

Twice in the last ~15 years we've had to watch while the integrity of the game was directly assaulted when a school that literally everyone knew was cheating won the NC and the NCAA sat and did nothing.  There will always be dirtbag programs like Auburn and Michigan and there will always be dirtbag coaches like Harbaugh but we need a governing body to keep them in check.  The NCAA has clearly and obviously failed and is beneath worthless.  

I included player discipline because in the NIL and portal era, schools are basically powerless to enforce discipline.  I'm going to use Texas as the example but don't get upset @utee94 , it is just for illustrative purposes.  Suppose that Manning does something REALLY bad off-campus.  Suppose, for arguments sake that it is something that all of us agree he should be suspended for.  Can Sark really suspend him?  Realistically there are at least two problems that are new in the new era:

• If Sark suspends him, he can transfer and Texas might well end up playing against him and potentially losing to him later this season.  
• Texas' boosters spent a LOT of cash to get Manning to be a Longhorn.  Those boosters also effectively pay Sark's salary.  They aren't going to be happy if Sark's actions torpedo a player that they spent a boatload of cash to bring to Austin so effectively, Sark's bosses aren't going to let him suspend a kid no matter what.  

The only workable solution to this is to take player discipline away from individual schools/coaches and put it in the hands of a competent governing body.