Yes we can pay players, but let’s do it fairly, shall we?

Unbeknownst to many, college leaders have created a new committee with the expressed mission to study the future of FBS governance and determine if the subdivision should operate outside of the NCAA structure — a long-discussed move gaining more momentum than ever.

But there is, perhaps, something even more serious brewing: a frustration from those in many power leagues at the lack of enforcement from the NCAA — and College Sports Commission too — over allegations of tampering of college athletes, eligibility rulings and the circumvention of the industry’s new roster spending cap.

For some, a solution is emerging: Each conference should govern itself, enforce its own rules and, perhaps even, compete solely with its own members.

“If the CSC is not going to enforce the House settlement, if the NCAA is not going to enforce tampering rules and if Congress is not going to pass the SCORE Act, then it leaves the SEC in a position that we have to go our own way to create some rules and a level of responsibility,” Georgia president Jere Morehead, a former chair of the NCAA DI Board of Directors, told Yahoo Sports earlier this month. “We’d be able to make a much stronger argument that we are not in violation of antitrust rules because we don’t have market power.”

”We have to go our own way to create some rules and a level of responsibility” is doing some heavy lifting in the NIL era of college sports, Jere. Case in point:

Cough.