There is lots of commentary and speculation in the sports news world about the dissolution of the Pac-12 and the ramifications of that dissolution for UC-Berkeley and Stanford. Various solutions are being floated. The Regents were briefed behind closed doors but no public announcement was subsequently made, although there were leaks about what was said. While we await more information, yours truly did come across an interesting proposal from UCLA football coach Chip Kelly, namely to separate money-driven football - which is at the heart of the current dilemma - from other sports that are being dragged along. Let football be outside the current conference structure seems to be what he is saying. Anyway, judge for yourself. Kelly's remarks are at:
There is at least one skeptic, not of the proposal's merits, but of the likelihood of its being adopted:
Chip Kelly’s idea about how to 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...
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-08-12/chip-kelly-plan-pac-12-college-football.
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