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Not sure if I am understanding everything yet. Help me out. The power 5 will be making their own rules. For them only? There has to be vote on it by the 65? by all the colleges before it is passed? if the rest of the 280 colleges vote no do the 65 follow what they vote or do they get to do whatever they want?
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the 75 or so schools that comprise the power conferences will be allowed to set up their own NCAA subset - and govern themselves --
kinda like a family allowing their college grad to move out and get a place of his own and set his own rules on what time to get home..
those schools like Bradley that the "BCS-types" don't want in their clubhouse will remain in what's left behind with the other 275 schools ...
we will then have what is NOW currently D-I separated into two groups that are different and are governed differently just like D-I & D-II differ today, or MLB majors & minors.
But the big boys will have so much power (& lust for more & for $)- drawing power, TV marketing, etc..) that once this happens, the weakened NCAA will kinda let them run themselves and won't impose many if any rules on them because they won't want to listen or they'll take their ball and go home.
College FB will become a little like a min-NFL with the best players always going where the biggest $$ is unless they impose salary caps, and college basketball will be a little min-NBA where there'll even be continuous bickering even among the big boys about teams like Kentucky, UConn, Duke having to share their $$ with the likes of South Carolina or Boston College.Comment
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I went to the NCAA tournament games in St Louis. When or if they split off to form separate divisions I will no longer attend such events. Like some others have said this will backfire on them. I will no longer have any interest in watching upper division games on tv. I will only be interested in whatever level Bradley is playing in. I am sure I'm not the only one. Greed will ruin these power conferences.Comment
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"Smaller schools hope they don't get left behind"
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one line is so true...that this is all about $$ and...
"the NCAA cannot fall prey to phony arguments about student welfare when the real goal
of some of these so-called reformers is to create a plutocracy of athletic programs
that serves no useful purpose in American higher education.."
...it'll be interesting to watch as just when some of the smaller schools stepped all over their best "friends, comrades and conference mates" to take a greedy little step up.....Creighton, Butler, VCU, etc...get left behind and none of the "power conference" 65 schools will throw them a bone...Comment
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article about how the A-10 is positioning itself...
Hope the MVC doing the same - the Valley has had MORE teams reach the sweet 16 that any of the other non-power conferences!
..but...just maybe that's what the big boys fear and don't want...
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In the past couple weeks NCAA restructuring has edged closer & closer...
many of these articles say it is coming by the end of summer.
there's even a new phrase being used...
NCAA Division-IV ........ or Division-4
we already know about Division-I, D-II, and D-III ...
Division-IV would be an exclusive Division of just 65 or so schools - the big power-conference schools that have major football.
Basically the big boys are saying - let us form our own division (D-IV) or we'll take our ball and go home - and form our own completely separate organization separate from NCAA.
But, if there is a Division-IV - there's a few schools that would be thrown a "LIFELINE".....and allowed in
schools without FB, with small athletic budgets, with no interest to a national TV audience, with no real long term history...etc...have little chance of dancing with the big boys.
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Des Moines Register
Drake, UNI hoops could feel tremors of NCAA power shift
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I don't understand this. They know what these self proclaimed elite teams are trying to do and yet they allow them to do it. Someone needs to get a spine and stand up and say no you are not. This has to be a level playing field and these are the rules. Otherwise college basketball will be destroyed. Destroyed by greed among the greedyComment
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a couple interesting blogs on this subject - and a connection to BU
..interesting analogy - only two options --
Death by drowning or death by the nuclear option - no option results in survival??
This is why we hear talk of DII or DIII as the only survival and playing Eureka strengthens people's concerns even more...
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In case you were wondering if the AD's at the big schools/BCS schools
had any concern about the harmful effect of their actions on midmajors and smaller schools...
the answer is nope...they obviously don't give a rat's a**
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This all just seems like a natural progression to me.Sungani umoyo womseko na wokonda waumbiri anznga.Comment
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NCAA has now basically handed over their gavel to the five power conferences to run themselves...
the SEC, Pac-12, Big-12, Big Ten, & ACC simply have to decide what rules they want - they can pay their athletes, police themselves, whatever - and this will leave everyone else in their dust ..essentially having to form a different organization.Comment
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That is a **** shame. They will destroy college basketball for the sake of greedComment
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Big 12 Commissioner issues a "dire warning"
"You're going to hate it ... " he says of the coming changes ...
He does have a few other interesting things to say .. blaming lawsuits against the schools & against NCAA & a perceived drop in $$ for the reason the big schools have to get greedier...
He also says something that sounds familiar locally...
" ... we'll find is that instead of keeping a tennis program, they're going to do the things
that it takes to keep the football and men's and women's basketball programs ..."
and he makes it clear that the money losing sports (the "Olympic sports") are going to disappear...
He also conceded plenty of schools are CHEATING...and hints that with the new system that allows paying the players - that there won't be any cheating any more --
""Enforcement is broken," he said, noting that the Committee on Infractions hasn't held a hearing in more than a year.
... it's not an understatement to say cheating pays presently," he said "If you seek to conspire
to certainly bend the rules, you can do it successfully and probably not get caught in most occasions..."
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Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby believes cheating in Division I football is rampant and that the NCAA is lax on enforcement, so that in the end, "cheating pays".
Big 12's Bowlsby rips NCAA enforcement, says 'cheating pays'
“[NCAA] enforcement is broken,” Bowlsby said. “The infractions committee hasn't had a hearing in almost a year, and I think it's not an understatement to say cheating pays presently.”
"But right now, if you want to cheat, you can do it and you can get away with it. There are benefits for doing that. "And that needs to change.".
This appears to be a shot at the SEC schools, which has several football programs that now are consistently ahead of the Big 12 schools in the rankings. The Big 12, with Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc., used to be the top football conference.
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