NCAA Prez says NCAA? Eh, not so much (i.e., decentralize power to conferences)
NCAA Prez Emmert sez maybe it's time to reduce the power of the NCAA and let teams and conferences be in charge.
Well boys, jig's up. Time to go home.
But how will college athletics survive without the well planned, well coordinated, well implemented standardized governance that helped a COVID season go so smoothly while closely monitoring every program for any possible unfair recruiting methods?
I doubt conference presidents will be any more competent, but at least we are close to eliminating 1 cartel from the system.
But how will college athletics survive without the well planned, well coordinated, well implemented standardized governance that helped a COVID season go so smoothly
Uh... wasn't that orchestrated differently by each conference?
Sarcasm.
I think you mean irony.
Governor Tarkin:
The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
General Tagge:
But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Governor Tarkin:
The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.
Wait... That's not what's already going on?
Sooo the SEC officially taking over now? At least we can stop pretending
Well, the SEC and ESPN.
Translation: "If I can't be God-King and Emperor of all college sports, no one can."
It's the highly educated, deeply respected, fancy-schmancy version of "Okay, if yer gonna be like that, I'm taking my ball and going home."
"ball," of course, meaning all the money the NCAA has skimmed.
Well Mark (and the rest of the NCAA staff), Congrats on a job... done.
WWJDD....
Make jokes and then masturbate, presumably
Never fails. This makes me laugh every time.
“Much of what I’m talking about is, in fact, that new environment, and you can do one of two things,” Emmert said on Thursday. “You can lean back and do nothing and then just wait and see what happens. Or you can say, ‘Look, this is a new era, we need to take advantage of it, pivot as much as we can to the other areas I was just talking about and embrace that change rather than fighting it.’”
I really feel sorry for Emmert’s wife. He must be impossible to have an argument with. The whole time you would be screaming “you literally did what you said you couldn’t do and then did the other thing too!!!”.
Option 3: try to do what's right.
"If I cannot continue to hammer Tulane for the wrongs of Alabama, then what is the point?" - Mark Emmert, maybe
The SEC is going to basically just go pro, financed by the schools themselves, boosters, and local/national businesses -- and a bunch of schools like Michigan aren't going to want to do that. (And who's going to be there to even enforce the most basic rule that the players are actually students? The SEC? LOL. Come on now, let's be serious.) That's the end state of this, and it's not too far around the corner.
Why exactly it was that everyone wanted the NCAA neutered so the SEC and ESPN could just take over and turn college football with students into pro football will remain one of the bigger mysteries that ever mysteried. Money will always find a home, so the SEC/ESPN train was always going to be hard to stop, but it's very unfortunate that real college football appears to be nearing an end.
There is no way in holy hell Michigan is going to be able to compete with Alabama and Ohio and Clemson Unleashed, and it isn't even going to try and the Michigan "money cannon" idea is just a pure pipe dream. It's perhaps possible that a group of schools will just form a "real college football" alliance and that will perhaps still be interesting. That's where Michigan belongs.
It's perhaps possible that a group of schools will just form a "real college football" alliance and that will perhaps still be interesting.
I'm fine with this but it just won't happen. I wish it would, I think Michigan would do very well in an old school college football landscape without all the corruption.
In the new world of NIL, Michigan will continue to be an average to above average team so not much really changes imo.
And the money cannon people, yeah, the money is there, but the culture of the University will just not allow the AD to do what it will takes to compete at the highest level. In short, they will not allow them to outright pay the players directly or indirectly like some other schools are going to be doing.
So most of the best players will go where they can get paid, plain and simple.
Because he knows he is ignored and has no backbone.