Hail Mary
A plan to save college football from the NCAA, NIL and transfer portal chaos
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Hail Mary
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Todd McGee
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HAIL MARY details a plan to save college football from the chaos caused by the NCAA’s inability to manage what has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The author proposes a 64-team Super League with four 16-team conferences, a 16-team playoff with all spots determined by results on the field and players being paid a salary comparable to what their peers in other minor league sports make.
The author's proposal includes:
- Equal distribution of television revenue among Power League schools
- A salary scale for players to pay them a similar salary to minor leaguers in other major professional sports leagues
- A relegation process that would bring at least one new team into the Super League each year, possibly more
- A 14-week regular season with a 13-game schedule that includes matchups designed to enhance parity
- Revisions to the transfer portal to bring it under control
- Conferences with teams aligned by geography to restore sanity to conference alignment
- A 16-team postseason playoff with all spots earned by results on the field
Heading into the 2024 season, 67 teams are in one of the four designated Super Conferences (Big Ten, Big Twelve, ACC and SEC). This doesn’t include Notre Dame or the two schools kicked to the curb by the Pac-12—Oregon State and Washington State. A handful of non-Power Conference schools--Boise State, East Carolina, Fresno State, Houston, Memphis and San Diego State--can make a legitimate claim to being one of the best 64 programs in the nation.
The author chooses which 64 teams are most deserving of inclusion (based on history prior to the 2024 campaign) and assigns them into conferences based on geography, an effort to restore some sanity to college football. Conference realignment has stretched common sense to its breaking point. West Virginia is in the same conference as BYU—2,000 miles and two time zones away. That's a mere day trip compared to the 3,120-mile sojourn Boston College fans will make to Palo Alto for the matchup with Stanford whenever those two ACC rivals meet for the first time.
The author proposes a salary scale for players that pays them a similar wage to what other minor leaguers make in baseball, hockey and basketball. The proposal also includes a relegation process to demote underperforming teams and reward teams who are excelling in the old FBS division, which will become a separate tier and determine its own national champion each year. The FBS champion will receive automatic promotion to the Super League each year.
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