JRK wrote:
Well, the game looks to be starting...sounds like NFL AAA football on the way with more money than baseball...Herbstreit appeared on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich"
"I feel like the NCAA has lost any power whatsoever in college football," he said. "I feel like, at this point, as we go to this new world, I would not be surprised. I don’t know how they’d get there. You’d take the Big Ten, whoever it's going to be – it’s like 60 teams, it’s the Big Ten, it’s the SEC, the ACC and the Big 12 and whoever else – I think they should go form their own world.
"Create their own governing body. Get one voice, one commissioner, instead of everyone having to get in agreement – these guys don’t always feel comfortable with each other – get one voice."
"I would pull out away from the NCAA, create my own governing body, I would partner with the players. I think you’d have to go through things like NIL and make some realistic changes," he said, adding that the new league would also have to address revenue sharing.
"I don’t know how you’d get there, but I think that’s where we’re headed," he said. "Players are going to be employees; you’re late to a meeting, you’re fined. It’s basically going to be the NFL in college football. Somehow, we still have to do academics, talk about the importance of getting an education, even though nobody wants to hear that, it is.
Yep, its beginning to look pretty bleek. Athletes overall are getting better and better, so there may be a chance that the competive gap player wise closes in some way. I think you will see this more in Basketball, Baseball, etc. Football competiveness still has a wide gap in FBS, FCS, and D2 Football. Most upper tier FCS could probably hang with most FBS teams if they game planned right. Same with D2 and FCS. Even lower level FBS usually can entertain though.
Final note, their are probably more FCS teams that could beat an FBS team than D2 beat an FCS team.