Syracuse Basketball: As Jim Boeheim says, the NCAA needs to go away

I’ve said on more than one occasion that I think the NCAA is a corrupt, incompetent and pathetic governing body of collegiate athletics, and Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim is weighing in on the future of the NCAA.

Mike Waters of Syracuse.com recently published a piece including comments from Boeheim. It’s a subscriber-exclusive article, so it’s not appropriate for me to detail any information from it here, but the headline reads, “Jim Boeheim on conference realignment: The NCAA says it’s out, so what do we need them for?”

Exactly. From my perspective, the NCAA needs to get out of town, and the sooner the better. To that end, NCAA officials recently put out a statement saying that the organization’s board of governors will convene a convention in November that “is intended to propose dramatic changes to the NCAA Constitution to reimagine aspects of college sports so the Association can more effectively meet the needs of current and future college athletes.”

The press release states that the revamping of the NCAA’s constitution will get spearheaded by a 22-person Constitution Review Committee.

"This committee, in turn, is anticipated to “propose a new system of governance and rules enforcement that further contemplates the role of national oversight and places appropriate responsibility at the school and conference levels.”"

I’ve got an even better idea. How about we just let the individual schools and conferences govern themselves, to the extent that is possible?

I’m with Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim on the future of the NCAA.

In response to the headline from Waters’ story, fellow Syracuse.com reporter Chris Carlson said via tweet, “Outside of the shrinking justification for colleges not to pay taxes on athletic revenues, probably not much.”

Oklahoma and Texas are headed to the Southeastern Conference. Who knows what will happen to the Big 12 Conference, and whether other Power 5 leagues, including the Atlantic Coast Conference, will merge together, cease to exist, etc.

Some national commentators have prognosticated that we could end up with one massive super league, encompassing the best squads from the Power 5 conferences and others. The NCAA has really no say at all regarding major college football, and will this ridiculous organization continue to operate the Big Dance?

Yes, the NCAA recently allowed college student-athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness, and the NCAA also redeveloped its transfer policy so that student-athletes in all collegiate sports could transfer once and retain immediate eligibility.

However, it took way too long for the NCAA to implement both of these measures, and it did so in part because of pressure from federal and state lawmakers, the Supreme Court and other stakeholders and decision-makers.

It’s time for the NCAA to be shown the door. Syracuse basketball and the rest of its peers in college sports have entered a new era, and the NCAA shouldn’t have a seat at the table.