For the past two weeks, college sports stakeholders have been debating the concept of a “Super League, ” one group ’s vision for a brand new college football enterprise. The group’s proposal, College Sports Tomorrow, includes a more in-depth analysis of how increased TV money and collective bargained payments might be used to create a college football entity that includes all of what is currently regarded as FBS, despite the discussion’s focus primarily on the top-line plan ( 80 teams, a 16-game playoff, new conferences ). Sportico just obtained a “confidential” ball board, which was circulated by the team in mid-February. A specific plan for sharing spread profits with people, a 40-game flower sports “festival,” and a preliminary look at how the Super League’s 70 permanent members may be organized in seven geographically aligned leagues are included in the report. College Sports Tomorrow ( CST ), a group of U.S. athletes. S. sports staff owners, executives, and college administrators have spent months trying to create a completely new business model to reflect the current upheaval in professional athletics. The team includes TurnkeyZRG chairman and CEO Len Perna, NFL executive Brian Rolapp, Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, and Syracuse president Kent Syverud. An 11-page deck, titled “Competitive Equity Proposals ” and dated Feb. 15, was produced for CST by TurnkeyZRG, a research company that works extensively in school sports. The file is marked “attorney-client privileged, ” although it is unclear why, since TurnkeyZRG is not a law firm. A CST member declined to respond to an email asking for feedback on the specifics. The program, which was first reported by The Athletic earlier this month, assumes that a more organized, centralized framework for big-time school football would result in greater security and more media and sponsorship funding than the organization’s present, disorganized framework. According to The Athletic, universities had each individual a portion of the group, with revenue sharing favoring the biggest brand names like Notre Dame and Alabama. The group places a focus on economical equity, which is frequently absent from the current structure, in addition to a prospective players ‘ union that will cumulatively bargain on issues like NIL and transfer limits. A timetable that has since drawn suspicion has been written in February for a school sports league that would build in 2027. Here are some more details from the ball board: The seven permanent 10-team “Super League ” groups consist of every Power Five class plus Notre Dame, and are organized geographically: western, southwest, plains, west, east, south and southeast. In large part, the work appears to maintain or return traditional rivalries, a variety of which have been shattered by meeting realignment. The west section resembles the just disbanded Pac-12 Conference, but without Colorado and Utah, which would engage in the plains section. The current Big Ten conference would arguably be most impacted, with Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota competing in the plains; Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Purdue and Ohio State playing in the midwest; and Penn State, Rutgers and Syracuse being allocated to the northeast. While the majority of the current SEC conference would compete in the south, South Florida and South Carolina would be split up with more distant geographical rivals like Florida State, Miami, and North Carolina. The top tier of college football is made up of 10 schools from what the deck refers to as the” Under League,” or the top tier of the organization. The eight teams that compete in the Under League’s playoff play their way up, with eight of the 10 remaining relegated each year. The remaining Under League is broken down into eight distinct divisions of seven teams, details that are not provided in the deck. Players would receive pro rata shares of a collectively bargained “FB Player Pool,” which would be funded by the Super League’s TV budget, according to the deck’s proposal for a national broadcast NIL ( BNIL ) construct. That money would be distributed as follows: 5 % to all rostered freshmen, 15 % to all rostered sophomores, 30 % for all rostered juniors and 50 % for all rostered seniors and graduate students. The pitch deck proposes a cap that would limit how much a program’s athletes could collectively earn via NIL as another way to maintain competitive equity. The proposed “NIL Roster Cap” would require that football players at one school’s individual NIL payments not exceed those made through group licensing and broadcast NIL ( BNIL ) agreements. If a school goes over the season cap, it will forfeit transfer and scholarship slots, and possibly lose those positions. On the other hand, if a school fell below 80 % of the pre-established “NIL Roster Floor” for two straight seasons, it would be relegated to the Under League until it could spend the entire season above the floor. A 14-game regular season played over 15 weeks, as suggested by the pitch deck, will start in August. Thanksgiving weekend marks the conclusion of the regular season, which is followed by a 16-team Super League playoff that spans five weeks. The schedule allows for the deck to grow to 24 [playoff teams ] without adding more weeks, according to a parenthetical on the deck. The deck also makes use of the April 2014 Super League tournament, which is a collection of 40 spring games played by Super League teams. In an apparent effort to promote the commercialization of spring exhibitions that are becoming more and more popular, those games could include concerts and other auxiliary events. Each year, teams would be able to reserve 85 roster spots, with only the ability to reserve 70 scholarship slots. At least 50 of those would have been hired by the program right after high school. Within a five-year eligibility period, athletes would be able to transfer twice. Each year, there would be two transfer portal windows—an “open” one in February and a “supplemental” one in March—and schools would only be able to sign a maximum of 10 players during each. Additionally, schools that sign athletes during the February window would have to make a “player transfer payment ” to those athletes ‘ former schools, similar to how the NFL provides compensatory draft picks, paying them for the total broadcast NIL payments the transferring athletes had received prior to enrolling. The new schools ‘ roster cap, which could choose to either take the full hit in a single season or spread it out 50-50 over two consecutive seasons, would fully account for that total. The “system encourages student-athlete persistence ( fewer transfer opportunities ) to increase odds of graduation and simultaneously creating an even greater incentive for schools to invest in, retain, develop and graduate players, ” the pitch deck says. On this schedule, or at any time, there are obvious challenges to the Super League. For one, it claims to abolish the traditional conference structure at a time when the SEC and Big Ten are combining both power and money. Additionally, all of the top college conferences have signed contracts for at least five years in media, and all of the leagues have also recently approved a$ 7,000 six-year deal. Expanded College Football Playoff will be covered by an$ 8 billion extension with ESPN. Lev Akabas provided the content of this report.