Pac12 is an Estate Sale and it's 5pm and all that's left Cal, Wazzu, and Oregon St. buyers walk home DEVASTATED

Hahahaha, so good, I have been that person to see a garage sale sign late in the day and be like “awesome, let’s check it out” only to find miss matched shoes, keychain lanyards, some dead or dying house plants, and an old Harley priced at way more than anyone is willing to pay.

Stanford is the Harley, Cal is the other stuff!

the collapse of an A5 conferences and consolidation into fewer power conferences will lead to the expulsion of weak football schools from the A5 conferences - Rutgers, Maryland, Vandy. Once the schools (not just consortiums and partisan businesses) have to pay every football and basketball player big 5 figures (on top of GIA/Alston) due to antitrust and employment lawsuits and state level legislation, it will all collapse to those two revenue sports. Maybe some country club sports like lax, h2o polo, swimming, stay alive with alumni donor funding. Maybe the richest 20-30 A5 athletic departments continue to fund track. But winter is coming for non revenue sports in the A5. USOPC and the constituent governing bodies are flat footed yet totally dependent on the NCAA for talent development. In 2036, USA track medal haul drops to 20.

college football has always been a joke and it is time, for the good of the country, for the authorities to impose some fairness on this sport.

even out the conferences and impose a draft. Yes, if your ticket to college is sports, your choice is limited, deal with it. Go to any school if you're qualified on strictly education basis, otherwise don't complain.

Word, but it ain’t going to happen. Values in the SEC and Big 10 are entirely revenue driven. And that means the players must be paid a revenue share. subsidizing non revenue sports will be gone or a luxury of the few rich programs that survive the next consolidation of the schools in those conferences (plus a small minority from ACC and Big 12). about 30-35 schools will field a full range of non revenue teams, purely on an elective basis.

what happens when the revenue dries up? How long will people keep watching a joke sport?

I stopped watching NCAAF years ago. What is the point? Alabama or some other big recruiter, why should I care who their 5 star roster can smash to pieces. It is not a real sports league at all. No way could it work like that if it weren't wrapped up in the higher educational system.

Maybe college sports should just be banned, and move everything to a Euro-style club system.

^^^^ sadly true

The ArizonaSt/Arizona party school rivalry must be preserved at all costs though.