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SEC and Big 10 threatening to leave the NCAA
Posted on: April 23, 2025 at 09:38:33 CT
alstl MU
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I think the SEC and Big 10 are bluffing. They just want to leverage the NCAA into rigging the system in their favor. Much easier than having to create you own system from scratch.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-sec-set-to-unveil-grand-plans-for-college-football-playoff-change-but-is-anyone-else-on-board/
It's akin to the mafia. The mafia does have rules but they don't want to follow the rules the rest of society follows. They make their own rules.
https://www.si.com/college/2024/03/01/gluttony-by-the-big-ten-and-sec-would-be-catastrophic-for-college-sports
ESPN quoted the same source saying: “Those conversations are happening,” adding some feel “pretty strongly about pulling away. I’d say very strongly.”
Such a move would assuredly tear asunder the all-comers NCAA basketball tournaments, two of the crown jewels of the U.S. sporting calendar. It would further imperil Olympic sports and the U.S. Olympic movement, with schools likely to be forced to cut sports. It would end the tradition of true national championships, with the SEC and Big Ten presumably creating their own NFC vs. AFC playoff and everyone else competing for a different title.
It would, in short, be catastrophic for anyone and everyone who likes what college sports has always been. But the power brokers in the Big Ten and SEC simply might not care about any of that. They’re not guardians of the game; they’re manipulators of the game.
Edited by alstl at 13:45:47 on 04/23/25
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-sec-set-to-unveil-grand-plans-for-college-football-playoff-change-but-is-anyone-else-on-board/
It's akin to the mafia. The mafia does have rules but they don't want to follow the rules the rest of society follows. They make their own rules.
https://www.si.com/college/2024/03/01/gluttony-by-the-big-ten-and-sec-would-be-catastrophic-for-college-sports
ESPN quoted the same source saying: “Those conversations are happening,” adding some feel “pretty strongly about pulling away. I’d say very strongly.”
Such a move would assuredly tear asunder the all-comers NCAA basketball tournaments, two of the crown jewels of the U.S. sporting calendar. It would further imperil Olympic sports and the U.S. Olympic movement, with schools likely to be forced to cut sports. It would end the tradition of true national championships, with the SEC and Big Ten presumably creating their own NFC vs. AFC playoff and everyone else competing for a different title.
It would, in short, be catastrophic for anyone and everyone who likes what college sports has always been. But the power brokers in the Big Ten and SEC simply might not care about any of that. They’re not guardians of the game; they’re manipulators of the game.
Edited by alstl at 13:45:47 on 04/23/25
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SEC and Big 10 threatening to leave the NCAA - alstl MU - 4/23 09:38:33
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