Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff’s comments about his conversations with other FBS commissioners regarding the potential to take football oversight and rule making away from the NCAA, and debate how this would turn out if it came to fruition.
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PAT FORDE: One other thing out of that interview, which was very good from Nicole Auerbach with George Kliavkoff, that caught my attention was Kliavkoff said that he’s had conversations with several of the FBS commissioners, and I’ve been surprised by the unanimous support for the idea among the folks that I’ve spoken to about taking football rulemaking and football rule enforcement out of the NCAA, which is, basically, in terms of for one sport at least, just kicking the NCAA to the curb and saying we got this.
Sounds good in theory. I still want to know who’s really going to be in charge of rule enforcement. Who’s going to take that on? You really think those conferences are all going to get together and say yeah, we’ll enforce each other and name our own like enforcement staff? I mean, I just I think that is highly unrealistic. It’s just been talked about a bunch, but they like having the NCAA as a fairly incompetent cop, the Sergeant Schultz out there that sees nothing, knows nothing, that they can get work around.
But they don’t have to be the bad guys. I really don’t think these conferences are up for taking on that role.
DAN WETZEL: They’re not even close. It gets annoying. I’m no fan of– I’m no defender of the NCAA. We make fun of them every podcast, but like, it’s just their– oh, well, it’s like it’s an applause line that has no reality. You’re going to do a better job? We just talked about how you announced you expanded the playoff before you expanded the playoff and screwed the whole thing up. Literally, the easiest thing to do, you couldn’t even announce it on schedule.
PAT FORDE: Yeah.
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