The question of whether or not Power Five conferences would break away from the NCAA at some point has been a topic for a few years now. With those leagues generating so much revenue and essentially running the world of college football anyway, it could be a matter of time before there’s separation between the two parties.

SEC Network radio host and ESPN personality Paul Finebaum believes the Power Five leagues could separate from the NCAA sooner rather than later. While appearing on Get Up recently, Finebaum suggested that conference commissioners, along with Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick, could be looking at breaking away from the association.

“I think this is the moment that a lot of people are looking around saying, why do we need the NCAA? I know the basketball tournament is important. I know all these other sports are important, but the people that sit at that table, the five Power 5 commissioners plus Jack Swarbrick, plus a few other people, run college football,” Finebaum said on the show. “The NCAA does not run college football, they lost that a long time ago, and I think they’re seeing the ineptitude of the NCAA especially of the leadership that currently exists. And I think we’re moving slowly, when I mean slowly, maybe a couple of years you can’t do this overnight, but I think ultimately you are going to see a break.”

Would that type of divorce be good for college football? Finebaum pointed to the NCAA’s “ineptitude” as a reason why the sport could actually improve if there was a break away.

“I think they would be better because you would have the Power 5 commissioners, the people that really matter, the people that contribute the large amounts of money into football controlling it versus a number of people who they have earned their spot at the table they don’t have the same issues as Florida and Southern Cal and Notre Dame and LSU,” the SEC Network host continued.

“So I do think because of that, they would be more lenient, they would be more amenable to player rights… I know the NCAA decision came out last week, it’s still being disputed, we still don’t know what’s going on because with the NCAA, Greenie, I know I’m gonna sound like a broken record, we never know what’s going on.”