“The best competitive balance you can have is like in the NFL. They have rules to create competitive balance. Whether it’s salary cap, difficulty of schedule, where you draft, where you pick relative to your won-loss record. Those things are important I think in the interest of creating a lot of good matchups on a national basis."

- The SEC has been paying players for years
- They play an 8 game conference schedule and many book 4 cupcakes to boost conference rankings
- They’ve never concerned themselves with any kind of system that helps lesser teams