How long before the top football programs remove themselves from the conferences and become one collective, separated into geographical divisions? — @seanyodarouse

Removing football from the NCAA sports structure makes all the sense in the world, and on Thursday the influential Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics reiterated its call for football to be treated independently:

“The recent conference realignment decisions of six Pac-12 institutions, including two founding members of the 108-year-old conference, should be the final tipping point forcing university presidents to explain why the current structure is still in the best interests of all Division I college athletes in all sports.

“These football-driven realignments create substantial challenges for basketball and Olympic sport athletes, who will spend much more time traveling and will miss many more classes with cross-country conference competition than football players.

“The Knight Commission believes our December 2020 proposal for an overhauled structure will be better for athletes in all sports and improve governance. Our proposal calls for the creation of a new governing structure solely for the sport of FBS football, with the NCAA continuing to govern all other sports.”

Will anyone listen? Probably not.

 

No one is interested in the Magic Bullet. Okay, carry on.