🏈 The Growing Divide: Is a split among the 120 FBS teams a possibility?

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NEW YORK -- Amid conference expansion and the growing gap between the top five major football playing conferences – the SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12, Big 12, ACC and Notre Dame – and everyone else, the question remains: Do the five power conferences need the NCAA? Would they better off taking their football and playing on their own? Two university presidents said Wednesday they aren't in favor of a split from the NCAA. However, Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman added that a "serious conversation" needs to take to place about the gap. "You have to either fight it or accommodate it, but I think some accommodation needs to be made," Perlman said at the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum.

Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch also doesn't believe five power conferences should leave NCAA. "We would have to set up a whole system," he said.

When asked what could be one of the biggest changes to come to college sports in the next five years, Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick cited an "another division, a Division 5" in the NCAA among the top football-playing schools.

"My only point is the tension grows as the business models get diverse," Swarbrick said. "It gets really hard to reconcile them over legislation and governance and the number of games played and all those things."

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[psychojoe]

Long overdue. I kind of place this with the idea of a subsidy for scholarshipped athletes. The initial proposal was for a modest $2000 per athlete to cover expenses which, while unavoidable, are not covered by their schollies. This was voted down at the last NCAA convention. For a school like Alabama, which has roughly 250 scholarships (all sports, men and women) it would cost around $500,000 a year. Let those schools willing and able to pay this subsidy form their own division.