Ryan Day considers possibility of breaking away from NCAA, ‘super conferences’

Ohio State coach Ryan Day considered the possibility of breaking away from the NCAA to create super conferences in college football.

It’s been a speculated model, considering the realignment among the Power Five. The SEC and Big Ten will both have 16 teams in each conference, bringing together some of the biggest brands in the sport in two places.

Day joined Bussin’ with the Boys to ponder the possibility of the future of the sport.

“I think that there’s so many different discussions that are happening right now of things like that, you know, and it’s like what’s coming next,” Day said. “I think as we just sit here right now, I think we all know things are going to continue to change because of everything that’s going on in America. Right? Whether it’s the NFL, the transfer portal, this conference realignment, we know that there’s going to continue to be lawsuits down the road so things are going to change where it goes. I really don’t know, I do think that the way that college football is right now, there’s nothing really you can compare to it, right? 

“There’s nothing else out there you’d be like, okay, yeah, follow this model, because it doesn’t exist. And I think if we can find a way to look more like some of the models that are out there, I mean, obviously the NFL is a model, it’s different because this is collegiate. It’s not professional. But the more we can find something to grab on to say, Okay, let’s let’s run college football, something like this. So we have more comparisons.”

Day dove into the details of college football, amid transfer portal and NIL madness. It’s a new realm for the sport considering legislations, rules and things of the sort didn’t exist quite like this even five years ago.

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When Day talked about super conferences, it could be a way football operates as its own entity in college athletics.

“Because what happens now is, there’s just a lot of hard feelings between pools, there’s inequities, whether it’s the players you know, in, you know, different folks and lawsuits about, all the things that go on across college sports,” Day said. “Where in other sports like the NFL, they have rules in place, they have players associations, they have collective bargaining agreements, they have all these different things in place that you can look through to say, Okay, there’s precedents here, right? 

“Now, we’re in a world where there’s no precedent, t’s wild. And so that’s what creates hard feelings. And I think for all of us sometimes it is, you know, coaches, and even our players, you’re not too sure what to think. I think that’s probably the hardest part right now. So I think any of that stuff is possible because we don’t really know what’s coming next.”