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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. 

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.

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, natural to backfill with another Holocaust denier

It is sad what this has done to you.  I know you.  You aren't @Mdot21 .  I'm sure you have personal integrity.  I'm sure that if this was not just Ohio State but if this was any school other than Michigan you'd be appalled at this behavior just like the rest of us - NOTE, not just Ohio State fans, EVERYONE.