Let's just acknowledge what bigtime college basketball and football are, and then adjust the rules accordingly. It is not a level playing field for Radford compared with VT. They are two different animals. They have two different missions with their sports programs.

And furthermore, schools can do just fine without bigtime college athletics. I'm a grad of Emory U and they have been quite intentional about not playing the semi-pro athletic department game. They do not field a football team and they do not offer athletic scholarships. And everyone there is just fine with it. Harvard, Washington and Lee, and CalTech do just fine as well. If Harvard really wanted to win football or bball championships, I'm sure they would and could.

We just need to step back from the table and start calling a spade a spade. I don't feel any P65 school is really happy with what college football and basketball have become. They realize the lunacy involved with building 100 million dollar player lounges, but they also know their communities would revolt if they dropped out of that ridiculous arms race. And they also like the money, and BTW, all the P65 schools make a ton of money from their sports.

The best solution in my opinion is for these 65 schools, with possibly a dozen or so more additions, to break away and create rules that are more suitable to what they have become.

[Post edited by chuckd4vt at 02/22/2016 01:34AM]