Many questions remain when it comes to the return of sports, including the upcoming college football season, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
There have been many ideas thrown around by commissioners of several conferences along with individual school leaders on how to bring football back in the fall. One such thought was that if students were back on campuses, there would be a college football season.
There have also been reports of conferences starting at different times or playing in-conference games only. But these ideas are coming from the conferences themselves, not NCAA President Mark Emmert.
Emmert said Tuesday that the NCAA is leaving decisions on start dates for state officials and university presidents to decide on. In just, there is no mandate that schools must start the season at the same time.
Pat Forde, who covers college athletics for Sports Illustrated, joined Andy and Randy on Tuesday to discuss how much power, or lack there of, the NCAA has right now.
"Only college sports could get itself into a position where the president of the NCAA has no real say in the most important and financially impactful sport," Forde said.
"It shows football is just such a different animal and the NCAA lost control of that, you know. Who knows? Who's really in charge here? Basically an oligarchy of five Power 5 conference commissioners plus a few other people occasionally matter."
With that said, that commissioners of the Power 5 conferences being the ones making decisions, is this an opportunity to break away from the NCAA and do their own thing? Do they really need the NCAA?
"I think everything goes back on the table to a degree here. I mean, like, everything. Maybe that's a little bit dramatic but if there's ever going to be a time to reconsider the state of college sports, this would seem to be it."