J. Brady McCollough highlights the plan UCLA football coach Chip Kelly discussed during preseason football media days that would “steer the college sports enterprise away from fully losing its soul — having top football schools be classified as independent and playing by their own rules, allowing the rest of the sports to be grouped together regionally as they used to be — is simply too logical for college sports leaders to wrap their heads around.”
McCollough references the similar Knight Commission December 2020 proposal in pointing out that Kelly’s plan is “not a new concept.” McCollough highlights that “in the aftermath of college football’s disjointed and desperate attempt to play a season during a global pandemic, the Knight Commission said the best way forward would be to remove the Football Bowl Subdivision from the NCAA and let a new entity govern the sport’s highest level of competition.”
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