Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback who is a college football analyst on ESPN, on Monday broke down what he envisions as the next steps for the sport amid the NCAA's latest legal battle over name, image and similarity (NIL).
A federal judge on Friday barred the NCAA from enforcing rules prohibiting the use of NIL compensation to recruit athletes. The judge wrote that the NCAA's ban likely violates federal antitrust law and harms athletes.
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Herbstreit appeared on OutKick's “Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich” and offered his perspective across the scope of college football and said he wouldn't be surprised if some of college football's major conferences split from the NCAA.
Kirk Herbstreit watches from the Amazon Prime TNF broadcast booth before the NFL game between the Carolina Panthers and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago on Nov. 9, 2023. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
“I feel like the NCAA has lost all power in college football,” he said. “I feel like, at this point, as we move into this new world, it wouldn't surprise me. I don't know how they would get there. You would take the Big Ten, whoever it is, it's like 60 teams, it's the Big Ten, the SEC, the ACC and the Big 12 and everyone else, I think they should form their own world.
“Create your own governing body. Get one voice, one commissioner, instead of everyone having to agree (these guys don't always feel comfortable with each other), get one voice.”
Herbstreit said commissioners like the SEC's Greg Sankey, the Big Ten's Tony Petitt and the ACC's Jim Phillips on their own conferences and college football should really have “one voice.”
The CFB National Championship logo is seen before the National Championship between Michigan and Washington on January 8, 2024 at NRG Stadium in Houston. (David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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“I would withdraw from the NCAA, create my own governing body, partner with the players. I think you would have to go through things like NIL and make some realistic changes,” he said, adding that the new league would also have to address revenue sharing. .
“You have to talk about the transfer portal, you have to make it more adaptable to players and coaches. Where there is more staying power for a program.”
Herbstreit said that way would make more sense to avoid legal battles or antitrust laws.
“I don't know how we got there, but I think that's where we're headed,” he said. “Players will be employees; if you're late to a meeting, you'll get fined. It'll basically be the NFL in college football. Somehow, we still have to do academics, talk about the importance of getting an education, even though no one wants to hear that.” , it is.
A view of the field logo before the CFP National Championship between Michigan and Washington at NRG Stadium in Houston on January 8, 2024. (Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
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“Yes, I think the NCAA is losing power by the day, and I think eventually that's what I see happening: They're going to have to form their own world for college football.”
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