Easier said than done of course.

Must be able to read and write.

Pay and portal.

Does this mean P1 might be on the way? Does this mean that some SEC and B1G teams would be cut if so? I used to think 4 Conferences with 16 teams , or 64 total in tier 1, but if Saban sticks with what he said on Game Day, we could be cutting that in ~half. ** Edited by Stech at 5/10/2025, 3:50:46 PM

will likely be the voice of reason for this committee for all of college football. Saban may want to look out for all college football's interests, but his subconscious bias for the SEC will be hard for him to do so. Cody Campbell mentioned pooling the media rights, aka sort of revenue sharing of conferences. When Saban thinks revenue sharing, he only thinks players and not conferences.

and minus the Vandy's and Northwestern's - nobody else allowed. Saban is as big a part of this mess as anyone but his number is wrong - it's only going to be a dozen because those dozen will eventually squeeze out the current mid-tier of the P2. Those dozen want it all and nobody else can play in their sandbox, and I for one say good riddance to them if they go create their super-league.

Look. I like Saban. And if I were to form my own commission on college football, I'd like to have him on it. But this committee is not going to make the call on all of this unilaterally. I also think DJT, as a sportsman, wants to genuinely address some of the current problems. But I don't see him as knowledgeable enough on the college game to understand what really needs to be done. I would advise him to add more minds to his committee. I respect him for giving it a go. It's long overdue to be honest. And while DJT strikes me as more of a big city, pro sports guy, I do think he probably would do better than your average legislator. However, in the end, fixing college football will require more than an executive order, which only lasts the length of the president's tenure in office. WRT to the 30-team comment specifically. No matter where the line is drawn (20, 30, 40...), there is gonna be hell to pay. And that is why I don't support a hard floor selected by arbitrary means. Either do relegation and promotion. Or set a standard, and allow any school that meets it to participate (stadium size, home attendance, academic standards, etc.).

him. ** Edited by Stech at 5/10/2025, 6:19:03 PM

move without limits has made it so only a handful of teams could win a National Championship. Then Georgia, Texas, Michigan, Ohio State etc followed. However, he owned the SEC and College Football until they caught up. It’s ironic he is going to be in the lead for creating checks and balances. I guess he’s an expert in how to kill them, but will he really have any desire to create them? Or is he a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

The power schools will not want to share the value they bring with the likes of Mississippi State and Rutgers.

Ole Miss, Arkansas, Missouri, etc. - they will ALL get squeezed by un-equal revenue sharing. As much as they want to be considered top tier football programs they are not, and the Bama's, Michigan's, Ohio State's and Texas' of the world will take everything if they can. Femoyer is right - let the dozen or so go off and play each other endlessly and everyone else can build a good league that millions of folks will watch - not everyone on earth only watches Bama, OSU, Texas and Michigan.

conferences for the rest of us. We will have plenty of good company. I won’t even feel “left behind”.

The group who wants to "restore" competitive balance to college sports is headed by the former football coaches at Alabama and Auburn? It's almost like that's not what they're after at all

unlimited scholarships, under the table payments, million dollar facilities, no educational requirements for acceptance or eligibility, etc. Whatever the current situation becomes, competitive balance will not be part of it.

limit was finally approved. It's why Welsh and Beamer could get to them when neither school ever came close to them before. Then Nick Saban negotiated an NFL staff with Alabama and he dominated the SEC and all of college football, until a small group like Georgia, Ohio State etc did the same. Now, with NIL IMHO way more than paying players, it is completely slanted to about 5 schools. ESPN and Fox are driving this, I was involved when NASCAR was everywhere and growing at unbelievable rate. However, the networks started focusing on a handful of drivers and teams and they totally blew it. I was on the corporate sponsorship side of it, and you could just see the fans flocking to just a handful of drivers/teams. They are doing the same thing with College Football. Watch Alabama now that they don't have Saban. Georgia is already better than them. What would have happened if Ryan Day lost to Tennessee? He's probably not even coaching right now. That's what happened to NASCAR, some of those drivers got families, and they didn't drive as aggressive. Or the families are not as supportive about them recruiting all the time, and they go to the NFL. The networks are rolling the dice by putting so many eggs in one basket, their goals are so short term focused, they can look invincible, all the way up until they are not anymore.

mentioned in that article with the backdrop of likely other congressional and senate members who will surely seek to ride the coattails for their own personal agenda makes this a colossal CF in the making that will relegate the original NIL CF to a minor traffic snafu. Adding Saban and Tuberville is akin to putting Bernie Madoff in charge of the SEC(Securities and Exchange Commission to be clear). ** Edited by 2hhoop3 at 5/10/2025, 4:50:42 PM

possibly go wrong with those two in charge?