Isn’t there currently 3 divisions?

To clarify, another report stated it as “across all 3 divisions”

I don't believe the SEC is the new king yes they now have the most major football brands. But the SEC has the problem that you have to have someone else to beat and push around or what does it matter.

What makes college football appealing is it is regional. Yes there are people that only care about the biggest games. But i know a lot of people that live in the midwest that on a average week could care less about the SEC until bowl season.

I actually think. That yes the rich are going to get richer and yes there are going to be super conferences. But i think the SEC and most people know that the cash cow is in giving more people the belief they have the opportunity.

I think now you are going to see the conferences agree on a set of rules that they all agree too and the NCAA will just be a place these things run through instead of the NCAA making the rules.

All the power and enforcement will be at the conference level.

We have to realize the NCAA is more then just Football. But in the present world and in court rulings it is useless in its present format.

My Guess is the NCAA or what replaces it may become more of a title then a actual place.

But who knows a month ago i would of never of dreamed of texas and oklahoma in the SEC

I'm not sure it's the SEC news that was the catalyst here. I think the supreme court issued a shot across the bow with their unanimous decision recently, and two different opinions being published, one by a Conservative judge who clearly stated that he considered their model to be unconstitutional. The jig is up for the NCAA as currently structured. It'll be interesting what it becomes, but my guess is that football and basketball are broken away completely, and operate under a different governing body as actual businesses affiliated with the universities.

The NCAA as we know it will likely oversee olympic sports, and lower level schools where amatuerism is actually an apt description.

I would agree with this.

Let's rephrase it then, the shot that hit the bow......

Taking online class now - once he passes he will have his diploma Was expected to enter in January so was planning ahead. Smart move - has $1 million already lined up.

Rumors Clemson and Florida State are trying to get dance tickets to the SEC Ball. I restate my case, SEC is the driving force in the collegiate football world and the NCAA doesn’t know whether to $hit or wind their watch. Outkick even has an article on it. Sure looks like a couple of super conferences as the remnants of the Big12 and the largely irrelevant Pac12 are now in conversation as to what their next moves should/could be. Interesting times ahead and I don’t think it bodes well for the Little Sisters of the Poor conferences such as the MAC-CUSA, etc.

There once was a conference with all Texas schools plus Arkansas. It was called the Southwestern Conference. The make up of this proposed conference has a few of the same players, but the big dogs have all moved on.

I wouldn't object to SWC-Lite. And to be honest, I don't think the "bigger schools" would not object to being the bigger dogs in this conference. Invite OK State and maybe NM State, I think it would be a fun little league. Otherwise, build out a 2nd tier of the FCS schools underneath them and have a strategic scheduling partnership for football and the basketball non-league schedule.

Completely agree. The gap between the haves and the have-nots is getting so large, it doesn't even seem like OU is playing the same sport anymore. We weren't on that level before, but at least there was an illusion that we were in the same division. Between the constant conference moves, the NIL stuff (how many Ohio players are going to get NIL deals?), the ever-growing influence of ESPN... it feels like the whole thing is made to flow cash up to the Alabamas of the world, and either you're in the club, or you aren't. And we aren't.

I follow Aston Villa in the English Premier League. In 2016 they got relegated to the second division. It's still the same sport, Villa was just playing different teams from before, but just knowing they weren't "at the top level," even the bottom of the top level, it just wasn't the same. This feels not-dissimilar.

Personally, I'd rather watch G5 games. They're usually more competitive and just more fun to watch. There are very few "P" school games I care to watch anymore.