I’m not sure I can agree with your characterization of the NCAA. Sure, they have stumbled but they also oversee hundreds of thousands of athletes not just football where there is zero money involved.
We have covered this several times and it’s well documented. About 20 of the over 1000 schools make money in sports. ND is one of them BECAUSE and ONLY BECAUSE of football.
I do agree with you, the tooth paste is not going back in the tube so we lead like we should always do.
If they wanted to stop it, the schools can form a “league” with their own rules and the players can collectively bargain. Just like tbe NFL. Takes the courts out of it as a league can set its own rules and could limit it. But I don’t see the 20 schools that benefit going along with anything that hurts their gravy train or their legacy.
No way, at this point, no way.... Old boy even wrote a book admitting his guilt! So this is not some sort of uncertain thing, not a matter of personal opinion.... Walter Byers, the architect of the NCAA and it's leader for over thirty years, on his deathbed, wrote a damn book, a memoir essentially admitting to everything. And you could buy that book if you want. The sub-title of it or whatever was:
Exploiting College Athletes....
So don't take my word for it, get it from the horse's mouth. And no matter how much they're embarrassed, how much they're exposed, and how much the phony baloney, the deliberately, wittingly, knowingly, by-design phony 'amateurism' that they instituted and forced all athletes to abide by under pain of total exclusion from college eligibility, knowing full well that in American society that college sports, outside of minor league baseball or junior hockey in Canada, is the gateway to all high-level sports across the spectrum in this country.... they forced this shit down the throats of all athletes everywhere, because they could, and they're dealing with children, HS kids, so they figure they can get away with it.... and they're so twisted and so evil, that they will admit to absolutely nothing, and just continue to double down, double down, double down.... even after a right-wing, pro-business, pro-wealthy establishment supreme court abosolutely humiliated them, with a unanimous vote that they better effin' cut it out, and that the game is up.
And yet they continue on like the most unregenerate criminal scumbags imaginable. As if it's their god-given right, and the natural, proper order of things to exploit these athletes, and unilaterally decide how things are going to be. It's so blatant at this point, and they are such explicit enemies of the athletes, that if they try to undo this pay for play regime that's getting settled in, and re-institute the old socioeconomic order and try to put the hammer down, that there will be a serious backlash, and you might see CFB and CBB players actually organize and strike....
As far as the logistics of being the humdrum, everyday governing body of the sport? That's nothing... It's not why they exist, and we already have conferences that basically do all the work, and the planning and scheduling and whatnot anyway. The NCAA is there to hoard the money and enforce the amateursism - AND THAT'S IT.....