NCAA 2024 - NCAA Offseason Thread

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Offseason thread for Transfer portal news, coaching carousel, Spring games and everything else until

 

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these campaigners are killing CFB

 

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The playoffs is killing the sport.

Best case scenario IMO is to go down the Chip Kelly route whereby you have a Power 64 teams and a Group of 64 teams and go back to regionality with a centralised office.

Funny thing is we had that about 10 years ago

 

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The playoffs are fine. but the TV networks getting in the ears of the committee and this race for "power 2" from the TV networks and the greed by the schools is whats killing it.

 

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The playoffs is killing the sport.

Best case scenario IMO is to go down the Chip Kelly route whereby you have a Power 64 teams and a Group of 64 teams and go back to regionality with a centralised office.

Funny thing is we had that about 10 years ago

I think they should just go all March madness and have the top 68 teams play knockout (with a first 4 play in). At this rate that's where we'll end up

 

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2min warning and headset communication coming.
All FBS teams can use headsets but dont need to, and it doesnt matter if only one team uses it for the game. But you will still see tempo teams using cards and signs.

Also sounds like tablets on the sidelines will be allowed.

Wont be officially approved till April

 

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Reckon he'd want to be able to back that up with something tangible...

 

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Clemson have officially filed a suit against the ACC and the Grant of Rights. We all knew this was coming once FSU jumped first.

 

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Clemson have officially filed a suit against the ACC and the Grant of Rights. We all knew this was coming once FSU jumped first.

 

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and from the start of the new deal in 2027 the national championship game will air on ABC

 

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Inside the CFB 'Super League' pitch some execs see as a way to save the sport

A group of influential sports leaders and college presidents are pitching a drastic change to the current CFB model as the best way forward.

theathletic.com

One league overseeing college football’s highest level. No more conferences as we’ve known them. Playoff berths being decided solely on the field. Promotion and relegation for smaller schools. Players being paid directly. NIL and the transfer portal, managed.

A group of influential leaders wants to make all this happen soon — and they are pitching it as the best way forward for a sport they believe needs saving.

You campaigners are the ones who have killed it with greed and the conference realignment based on money. its not the players who want to fly cross country now every few weeks rather then just 1 state over. CFB wont feel the same with all the rivalries that have been killed.

They are trying to implement a drastically new system that would replace the NCAA and the College Football Playoff and potentially provide a solution for the hurricane of current and future lawsuits aimed at the business of the sport, plus the NIL and transfer portal issues that, they believe, have put college athletics as a whole in peril.

The current CST outline would create a system that would have the top 70 programs — all members of the five former major conferences, plus Notre Dame and new ACC member SMU — as permanent members and encompass all 130-plus FBS universities.

The perpetual members would be in seven 10-team divisions, joined by an eighth division of teams that would be promoted from the second tier.

The 50-plus second-division teams would have the opportunity to compete their way into the upper division, creating a promotion system similar to the structure in European football leagues. The 70 permanent teams would never be in danger of moving down, while the second division would have the incentive of promotion and relegation.

The playoffs would not require a selection committee, as the eight division winners and eight wild cards from the top tier would go to the postseason. The wild-card spots would be determined by record and tiebreakers, much like the NFL.

Thus far, the group is struggling to gain traction with the schools that would play in their proposed “Super League.” The ACC board of directors heard a presentation from the group in February. However, planned dinners with administrators from the Big Ten, SEC and Big 12 all were called off. Spokespersons for the Big Ten and SEC said commissioners Petitti and Greg Sankey, respectively, have not met with Perna’s group.

Leagues have been hesitant and canceled meetings so as not to upset their current broadcast partners, including ESPN and Fox, according to one executive briefed on the commissioners’ thoughts.

Chief among the obstacles this new venture faces are the billions of dollars in TV deals that all the top conferences have locked in with the major networks: ESPN/ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS. The FBS conferences recently signed off on a six-year, $7.8 billion extension with ESPN for the exclusive rights to the expanded College Football Playoff.

The Big Ten’s deals run through the 2029-30 season, the Big 12’s run through 2030-31 and the SEC’s exclusive deal with ESPN runs through 2033-34. One TV executive called the idea that there is a lot more untapped money in the market “naive.” One CST executive said that the major networks with existing deals would likely need to buy into the plan before it could go to the open market in the 2030s.
Universities would own a percentage of the league, a model derived from MLS where it was devised by former president Mark Abbott, who is involved with CST. Unlike the soccer league, the revenue distribution would not be an even split among all competitors, as top brands like Alabama and Notre Dame would receive more of the financial pie. CST believes there would be added value in negotiating TV deals as one entity and creating broadcast windows that make more sense, much like the NFL’s approach.

Yeah the big schools are not taking TV deal pay cuts to have this. that was what was behind the last realignment.

Not surprising that Syracuse and WVU were the only 2 schools to have someone speak on record about it. Syracuse are lucky they were already in the Big10, otherwise they would be ACC or Big10 on a reduced share just for the NY TV market in Basketball.

 

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