Guys are leaving for the NBA earlier and earlier. There are rarely GREAT teams. The UVa title team (a very nice team by today's standards) would have got curbed stomped by many of those UVa teams from the 1980s. And when is the last time an NCAA champion would have measured up to championship teams of the past: UCLA, Georgetown, UNC, etc.? Unless the NIL brings in big enough money to keep the marquee players out of the NBA draft, all this bluster won't solve the problem. And I don't see elite 17 year old basketball stars caring one way or another about all the student-athlete pontification from elitist schools in these three conferences.

The NCAABB is one of the best sporting events of the year. Having three conferences breaking off to do their own thing might not be the boon they expect it to be. In fact, there might be a backlash.

So he's saying the Pac/Big/ACC is going to parlay basketball to use against the SEC? What a joke. "Yeah, we don't like what the big mean SEC did in football, so we are going to blow up basketball now just because."

I think the three conferences DO have FOOTBALL leverage in this situation. But I doubt they have the balls or the brains to use it effectively.

[Post edited by Maroon Baboon at 08/21/2021 4:38PM]