Ladies and Gentlemen –
I have the solution to the NCAA “problem” in college athletics.
While the NCAA ignores the rampant violations occuring at the cyclic rate at Southern California and other “favorite” universities, the University of Alabama and Florida State are drafting “appeals” to the NCAA on the penalties imposed to their “self-reported” violations.
Your favorite College Football Prognosticator has the solution for this systemic problem that I think we can all agree upon.
The Southeastern Conference should secede from the NCAA
Why pay any more extortion money to a “volunteer non-profit” organization that clearly doesn’t work for or with the respective conferences or universities.
EDITORS NOTE: Noted exceptions to the above comment:
Notre Dame
PAC 10 Conference
Big Eleven…I mean Ten Conference
The universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference are welcome to join our exodus from this dictatorial “one-sided” monopoly.
I bet I could get Coach Bobby Bowden’s “Yes” vote on that right about now…
If you folks at Boston College don’t care to follow suit, we Southerners will understand.
You folks in the BIG 12 are encouraged to join us as well……
After all between the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference and the universities from the Atlantic Coast Conference we will have a lock on the best teams, players, coaches, and collegiate venues in the country.
I am sure you good folks in Cornhusker Country remember the 200 hundred thousand dollar investigation the NCAA launched a few years ago to ensure that Eric Crouch paid back that $6.36 ham sandwich and chips he had at a Nebraska Alumni’s house….
O’ wait! I almost forgot about the Coca-Cola in the cost of that too…
There won’t be such foolishness in the “New” organization with Coach Tom Osborne in charge.
With him at the helm we will have an organization that is based on equal rights of universities and equal protection and fair dispensation of the rules.
I promise you that….
How about it Big Ten, I mean Eleven are you up to the challenge? Or would you welcome a college football world without the Southeastern Conference or the Big 12?
You other Conferences and Divisions are welcome to join us too.
I know many of you are saying, “This is Crazy!”
Is it?
What do we stand to lose?
The Heisman Trophy is awarded by the Downtown Athletic Club…
To the “Best College Football Player in America”….
Not the NCAA….
The NFL still drafts the best college football players…
Not the NCAA….
The Networks will follow suit and cover all of our games…
Why?
Because we produce the best teams and the best players in college football…
The revenue generated from our televised games, merchandise and gate receipts won’t have to be shared with the greedy self-serving holier than thou bastards in Indianapolis.
We won’t have to be concerned that some jackass will “force” a university or college to change its nickname or mascot because it offends some peanut head in the ivory tower at the NCAA headquarters.
Since the NCAA “claims” they have “No hold over the BSC Championship”….
Then we could rightly take our place in those games as well, right?
That is unless the NCAA comes out from behind the curtain as the master manipulator and scavenger of the Bowl revenues.
What is the NCAA going to do?
Publically state that they won’t accept the millions generated by the Bowl games because Oklahoma, Clemson, Nebraska or Florida is playing in them?
Hardly….
And “so what” if the NCAA prevents us from competing in the BCS Championship game?
Let the “mighty” Southern California Trojans play Rutgers for the “glass football” in the Rose Bowl.
Who cares….
Do you think anyone will be watching that game?
While the University of Texas Longhorns and Colt McCoy and the University of Florida Gators led by Tim Tebow play for the “real” title in the Sugar Bowl?
Will ESPN/ABC and CBS “boycott” the games of the new conference?
Not a chance…
Too much money in advertising my friends…
Because this is the college football the people want to see….
Are you fans of other collegiate sports worried that your team won’t be fairly represented in other college championships if you secede from the NCAA?
Really?
Where would the College World Series be without the representative conferences mentioned above?
Imagine a College World Series without North Carolina, Texas, Lsu or Miami?
How about a “March Madness” without Florida, North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky or Louisville?
How many people will watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang State play UCLA for the basketball championship?
How about an NCAA Women’s basketball Championship without Pat Summit and the Tennessee Lady Vols?
You want an NCAA Track and Field Championship without Texas A&M, Arkansas or LSU?
You want to talk NCAA Swimming and Diving?
Can you have a “Champion” without Auburn, Florida and Texas?
Let me simplify this one for you…
The little ole championships and trophies they give out by the NCAA won’t amount to jack squat…
That is if they are even shown on television anymore after we depart…
The NCAA will collapse without the Billions of dollars of revenue generated by the conferences referenced above.
The television coverage of various teams and sports within the NCAA will shrink to nothing.
So I ask you…..
Join with me friends and neighbors of the Southeastern Conference…
It’s time we take our leave from these tyrants….
and tell the NCAA and Myles Brand to Kiss our Ass….
RTR
MEB