{"id":700716,"date":"2026-04-02T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/700716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:52:16","slug":"report-alabama-ad-greg-byrne-suggests-conferences-ban-schools-that-break-compensation-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/700716\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Alabama AD Greg Byrne suggests conferences ban schools that break compensation rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama<\/a><\/strong> athletic director Greg Byrne<\/strong> is clearly fed up with the current state of college athletics. But amid unrequited calls on Congress to save the NCAA, SEC administrators like Byrne are entertaining other ways for the Power Four conference to police themselves when it comes to player compensation rules.<\/p>\n

And, at least according to Byrne, that could include the SEC and other Power leagues potentially barring schools that are found to blatantly flout player compensation rules established by last summer\u2019s House v. NCAA settlement from future competition in said league. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to see, I think, a potential crossroads, on whether schools should be allowed to participate in conferences if they are choosing to not follow the rules,\u201d Byrne told AL.com on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The House settlement paved the way for Division I schools to directly compensate athletes through revenue-sharing, and provided a cap of $20.5 million for the first two years of its installation. But several prominent programs have vastly exceeded that cap, and quite boldly, by utilizing other revenue streams through their school\u2019s NIL collectives, and there have been several legal challenges to the College Sports Commission\u2019s NIL Go clearinghouse process that is meant to regulate those NIL deals. <\/p>\n

But, if individual schools or athletic programs are found to be purposely defying CSC regulations or House rules in order to gain a competitive advantage due to a significantly larger payment pool, Byrne believes \u201cthere should be consequences for those actions,\u201d via AL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Congress remains at a standstill on potential legislation, the NCAA has made an effort to hold teams accountable for breaking transfer rules. The NCAA DI Cabinet passed emergency legislation Wednesday that levies strict penalties against coaches and schools that acquire \u201cblind-transfers,\u201d or athletes that leave from one school to another outside of their sport\u2019s designated transfer portal window. Among the potential penalties include a six-game suspension for the guilty school\u2019s head coach and a 20% fine of a team\u2019s sports budget that year.<\/p>\n

Alabama AD Greg Byrne calls for an end to SEC Championship Game: \u2018The ship has sailed\u2019<\/p>\n

Byrne wasn\u2019t done making sweeping declarations Thursday. The Alabama AD also called for the end of the SEC Championship game<\/a> ahead of the league\u2019s move to a nine-game conference schedule beginning this upcoming season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the ship has sailed,\u201d Byrne told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview published Thursday<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s run its course.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the advent of the ever-expanding\u00a0College Football Playoff<\/strong><\/a>, which is entering its third year with 12 teams but could expand further in the near future, the reality of playing conference championship games has become much trickier. Teams are trying to prepare for the postseason and there\u2019s often little tangible benefit to playing an extra title game for teams that have already reasonably secured a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great event,\u201d Byrne said of the SEC championship game. \u201cI don\u2019t like the idea of it going away, but I think it\u2019s reality, with an expanded playoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 On3\u2019s Thomas Goldkamp contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is clearly fed up with the current state of college athletics. But amid…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":700717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-700716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116337806405698919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}