One implementation map
A playoff changes workload and value. Agreements change transfer timing. Eligibility changes roster planning. Enforcement authority determines whether any national rule is real.
Calendar inventory, workload, hosts, media value, rankings, access, and competition rules.
Open the system 02Player rights, agreements, compensation, NIL, agents, movement, recruiting, rosters, and eligibility.
Open the system 03Jurisdiction, enforcement, integrity, independent judgment, appeals, stable rules, and amendment authority.
Open the systemBest next proposal step
What lawful source authorizes each rule, demand, restriction, sanction, and appeal?
Which rights and reciprocal duties can be placed in a two-sided player-school agreement?
Where do antitrust, labor, employment, contract, NIL, privacy, tax, and state-law regimes collide?
Can investigation, interim relief, judgment, sanctions, and appeal operate independently and on time?
Independence protocol
Counsel and subject-matter reviewers disclose clients, institutional ties, funding, litigation roles, and other conflicts before assignment.
Reviewers receive the full proposal and a written mandate to identify failure—not a request to defend a preferred outcome.
The public record identifies what was reviewed, what was withheld, unresolved disagreements, assumptions, and any reliance limits.
A memorandum, interview, or consultation is not presented as approval by a reviewer, athlete, institution, regulator, court, league, or union.
Controlled adoption
Each phase produces public artifacts, identifies the authority responsible for approval, and preserves a stop condition before the next phase begins.
Complete the national authority map, player-rights code, agreement standard, legal and labor analysis, financial model, evidence record, and failure conditions before asking anyone to adopt the system.
Operate the systems that can be tested without coercive power: rankings, calendars, disclosures, sample agreements, case clocks, conflict screens, and public audits.
Secure every power the model actually needs through collective bargaining, legislation, contractual accession, provider agreements, conference action, CFP action, NFL coordination, or another lawful mechanism.
Launch only after the current season ends, with published grandfathering for eligibility, agreements, rosters, disclosures, and sanctions. Audit the first cycle and keep an exit path if the gates fail.
Launch standard
“In progress” is not a softer version of “passed.” Independent reviewers should be able to reject, amend, delay, or narrow the system.
The actual source of power for every market restriction, national standard, investigative demand, and sanction is written and independently reviewed.
Direct athlete representatives participate in the design, negotiation, administration, review, and amendment of rights and obligations.
Health, insurance, travel, recovery, academic, family-assistance, data, and post-eligibility obligations are funded before discretionary distributions.
Rights value, provider costs, downside cases, institutional burdens, and protected funding are modeled with credible inputs.
The CFP, National Tournament, schedule, ranking model, championship protections, and roster calendar survive historical and live shadow testing.
Potential hosts certify staffing, lodging, winter readiness, student access, and funded contingencies before selection, then test short-notice activation and the neutral fallback. Schools, officials, broadcasters, technology vendors, case administrators, and appeals panels must also pass their operating checks.
Proposed test · not yet run. A written plan is not proof that a campus can deliver. Publish the criteria before the rehearsal and have an independent reviewer check the results.
Keep this gate open until the evidence meets the published criteria. If it fails, change the operating plan or calendar and test again.
Open the host responsibility worksheet and two example cases →Assumptions, pilot results, failed gates, amendments, conflicts, tribunal decisions, and annual audits remain visible in a durable public record.
The right first move
The safest early work is visible and reversible: a shadow calendar, ranking backtests, standard-form agreement drafting, anonymized case simulations, conflict checks, disclosure prototypes, and a published scorecard.
A pilot does not create eligibility authority, bind an athlete, validate a market restraint, or imply NCAA, CFP, conference, school, NFL, NFLPA, or labor approval.
Current decision
Begin with the authority map and athlete representation while continuing the College Football–NFL calendar work. No market, eligibility, contract, or enforcement rule should be treated as binding until the source of lawful power is clear.