This is a tumultuous time in the world of college athletics. Name, image and likeness, as well as changes to the playoff scheme in football and resulting conference upheaval have upended the world as many of us knew it for the past three decades.
It’s a world gone mad, and someone needs to bring a bit of sanity to it. You could be just the person for the job.
Our open question to you on this afternoon is simple. Imagine you have been crowned the king or queen of college athletics. Like the head of the NCAA if you didn’t have to worry about school presidents, meddling congresspersons, or television executives telling you what you can and can’t do. Once vested with this enormous power (and equally weighty responsibility) how would you exercise it?
For my part, I think at a minimum I would require that no college sports conference at the FBS level can have a geographically non-contiguous layout. That is, you can’t skip states to get to another school to add to your conference. The Big Ten for example spans coast-to-coast but doesn’t have any schools in most of the states its student athletes are currently flying over to get to that big UCLA/Rutgers matchup. I think this simple rule would do a lot to rein in some of the far flung, stitched together Frankenconferences now emerging.
Drop your ideas for how to fix this mess in the comments. And as always…
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
