Posted on 08/08/2014 3:02:19 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors voted through a new — and potentially groundbreaking — measure Thursday when it approved the “Big Five” athletic conferences’ ability to govern themselves and push through rules changes as they see fit.
After the board’s 16-2 vote in Indianapolis, five conferences: the Southeastern Conference, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and Pacific-12 — will have autonomy to vote on prospective changes that could change the face of college sports.
One of the first topics expected to be addressed in the coming months is whether amateur athletes in the NCAA’s highest-revenue sports, namely football and men’s basketball, are entitled to additional benefits, including a stipend.
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in that vein, no college nor university can be honest in running the sports racket by supporting and paying for big football or basketball...
..I don't care if they make the supposed "profit"...
"profit" is not their mission....
and since all sports pretty much take a lot of time whether it be womens volleyball or mens golf, then these people deserve to be paid....
if it keeps going like this, I will drop my season tickets...
And the disease is now even spreading to High Schools.
Good move.
The it schools, the ones that actually earn money from football, should not have to subsidize the schools that play football, but lose money.
After all, the football schools are not communists.
The schools that lose money from football drop football, or play FCS or lower (Div II or III).
The women’s sports spend the profits of football.
Most D1 athletic programs are subsidized by the big programs.
The big schools kick cash down to the other D1 schools in their conference.
It’s Socialism.
But, but, we have to have an official champion! Even if they have to play 20 games! Athletic departments are there to make money, not enhance college education!
Well....someone has to be the opponent.
It happens interconference as well.
Big State U. pays a Small State U. to come in and play them.
THe Big State U. teams are accustomed to having 7, even 8 home games in a 12 game schedule.
Clearly, an association of 70 schools from 5 conferences can’t all have 7-8 home games.
So yes, those weaker teams are necessary to keep around.
Yes, that’s what I meant. Interconference = between conferences; Intraconference = within a conference.
“Well....someone has to be the opponent.”
Not if the top 30 or 32 programs break away from the NCAA, form their own league and sign a massive TV contract.
With that, every football weekend would feature games such as Michigan v USC, LSU v Texas, Ohio State v Oklahoma, Florida v Wisconsin, Alabama v Michigan State.
The small schools would not be needed and the big schools would not have to subsidize the small schools.
“Plenty of small schools are happy to be sacrificial lambs if it means a big pay day for the athletic department.”
The small schools are not sacrificial lambs, but rather under achievers begging for welfare check from the more successful programs.
If those top 32 (actually ~70 for the top 5 conferences) programs broke away, there wouldn’t be enough of them willing to give up a home game. If all 70 of those schools want to host 7 or even 8 home games on a 12 game schedule, you’re going to need ~35 schools or more to give up a home game or two.
Not every team in the major conferences would go, only the top grossing 30 or 32 teams.
They can do like soccer and have promotion/relegation.
SEC teams played 7 home games last year - maybe more this year. Even Kentucky and Vanderbilt had 7 home games.
Every team in the Big 10 had at least 7 home games.
Among those power conferences, Big 12 was lowest at 6.6 home games. Not one team in those power conferences had fewer than 6 home games.
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