In a change of governing procedures that will shake the very foundation of college athletics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has decided that the major athletic conferences - the so-called "Power-5" - can make their own rules and govern themselves.

A system that has been in place since the early 1970s is being scrapped and a “Brave New World” is on the horizon for so-called amateur athletics.

It's all complicated and sports pundits are writing pro and con about the NCAA's ruling last week. It comes as the college football season kicks off in a couple of weeks with a new college football playoff in place that will select a national champion.

I could write my viewpoint on the NCAA's new governance system, but I won't, except to say I'm not expecting anything good to come out of it.

Why, you ask? Because we're not in the solution business in this country; we're in the problem-making business.

Seriously, can you think of the last time we solved a problem in this country? Maybe landing on the moon?

Take something simple, say, obesity. We talk about obesity all the time.

But how are we doing with it?

I see people and it doesn't matter if they're jogging or in the buffet line or drooling at the dessert bar, we're not solving the problem of obesity.

Remember the war on drugs? How’d that go? Or the war on poverty?

Look at veterans and, more particularly, look at the Veterans Administration.

Veterans understandably  have problems and the VA is typically one of those problems. The VA was created to solve problems, not make more of them.

How about this one: Congress!

Used to be there was a faint hope when you sent a new member of Congress up to Washington; maybe he or she might actually solve a dilemma or be a part of a solution.

Now you can bet your bottom dollar that Rep. Newguy is instantly going to become part of the problem.

Go ahead, do your own list of national problems.

What about General Motors' recalls? Or Iraq? Or Afghanistan? Or education? Or Wall Street? Or immigration?

I know, I know, once Obama is out of the White House every problem we have will be solved, right?

Keep in mind that 40 years ago we got Richard M. Nixon out of the White House and what did Jerry Ford do? Pardoned him and that created more problems.

All I’m saying, I don’t know what to expect now from college football in the near future.

Because I’m conditioned to believe whatever we do blows up in our face, I have already gone into training where my personal television viewing habits are concerned. In anticipation of the NCAA changes in store and a fall day in the near future when I no longer recognize college football as college football on ESPN, CBS or FOX, I’m prepared to take my remote in hand, point it, click it and say, “Hell-o Cartoon Network!”

Bob Morgan is a retired, award-winning journalist and author.