power conference schools are asking themselves these questions while they consider what their next move will be. If the power conference schools decide that they want remove football and M/W basketball from the umbrella of the NCAA, then I suspect the NCAA will not think too kindly of the decision. Remember when people refer to the "NCAA," then they may be referring to 1 of 3 possible definitions:

1. The small administrative body that includes the commissioner and the staff hired to enforce the bylaws and various other rules;

2. The members (aka schools) of the NCAA;

or

3. Both 1 and 2.

In my case, I am referring to definition 3 because both parties will have different reasons for not liking the Alliance's decision. The admin part won't like it because of the impact it could/would have on its sponsored postseason tournaments for all the other non-football sports currently sponsored by the NCAA. Even though the NCAA owns the rights to the "March Madness" name, it will probably be financially impacted once the current TV contract expires or is terminated (assuming the removal of the power conferences from the NCAA Tournament is enough of a reason to terminate the contract). The other DI members won't like it because of the impact it could have on scheduling and even having enough participating teams for the NCAA to continue sponsoring the sport. Keep in mind that within the DI bylaws, the NCAA has defined the minimum number of participating teams required for each sport for the NCAA to sponsor a championship in said sport. Heck the NCAA has even defined the minimum number of schools and other minimum requirements for a "conference" to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournaments.

Now of course people could say that the remaining NCAA members could easily change the bylaws to whatever they want them to be. It is correct that the bylaws could be changed at any time and go into effect in a future fiscal year. However, it may not be as easy as some could believe since the NCAA is organized/structured very similar to how Congress is structured with committees/subcommittees made up of representatives from the schools and even private business in some cases who serve for a specific period of time. Also, I don't believe the members meet on daily basis because this "job" is viewed as a secondary job. I think in most cases they only meet quarterly to discuss things unless a topic comes up that requires more frequent meetings.