re: BayouTraditions and similar NIL “collectives” are offensive.

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This does not make sense. The P5 is going to sever ties with schools? The SEC football teams won't represent the schools in the SEC? Even if they broke away, they are still subject to anti-trust laws. Breaking away does not solve the problems.

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Officially severing any remaining budgetary and oversight ties and operating completely outside of the universities is the only way to get away from Title IX. Even if the P5 pulls away from the NCAA (which has been threatened many times for leverage, even if just as a nuclear option), that still doesn’t solve the Title IX issue.

As for the cosmetics, I’m sure schools would just license the names, logos, etc back from the school and lease the facilities for basically nothing. And I’m sure many would continue to pay money back to the schools like the LSU Athletic Dept already does. Everything would look and operate the same minus the G5. This would get around T9 and allow for collective bargaining, contracts, etc.

As for your comments on anti-trust, the pro leagues are exempted from anti-trust issues and if the P5 began to operate as a separate entity, they would most likely be treated the same. Such a move wouldn’t happen unless the university presidents knew going in that it would all work legally.

If we are being honest, it wouldn’t be as big of a structural change as you might think. The football staff and operations are already funded outside of the university. They would just have to separate football and possibly men’s basketball from the rest of the athletic dept and they can get all the way there.

I hope this never happens, but it’s possible if things get bad enough. And again, it’s probably simpler and definitely faster than the legislative and legal route to changing Title IX.