NCAA restructuring

[tornado]

http://www.athleticscholarships.net/2014/01/13/ncaa-proposal-focused-on-short-term-repair-not-long-term-improvement.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

- greater control by "power conferences"
- elimination of all references to "amateurism" which can only be construed as opening the door to allowing certain (richer) institutions to pay their athletes
- "a major victory for power conferences"
- the ones hurt the WORST by this restructuring are "Five FBS conferences and the top basketball leagues" - which of course includes the MVC.
- "the power conferences would be EMPOWERED..."


here's our last discussion on this change - and many predicted this is exactly what would happen - http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19104

[bradleyfan124]

College basketball will be destroyed as we know it. The greedy power conferences will run everything. You thought Congress was just all about themselves and what they could get out of it. Wait till you see these "big" schools take control. But I can see the inner circle imploding from within after awhile. Greed will consume them. There will be no coordination. The NCAA tournament will cease to exist. The "big " schools may try to hold one but since most of the colleges will be out of it, no one will care.

[tornado]

... The "big " schools may try to hold one but since most of the colleges will be out of it, no one will care.

yes, they will create different divisions as they have in football and hold their own championship to be sure nobody like a Horizon Conference team or a MVC team ever crashes their party and gets to the Final Four or Sweet Sixteen..

[wizard1]

NCAA Restructuring

This would be a very unwise move by the NCAA since it would be an open invitation to government control of collegiate athletics.
Wiz

[tornado]

They also will never again lose a decent recruit to a mid-major and they'll even be easily able to cherry-pick top players off other mid-major schools' roster because they can "outbid" the smaller schools.

[BUBalum05]

Might as well just make 4 NCAA divisions now.

[tornado]

opportunities are slipping away regularly ---
opportunities to join a stronger conference as Creighton did, opportunities to schedule stronger and be taken more seriously as Wichita has, opportunities to get to the post-season or get back to being considered a strong mid-major as UNI has done, opportunities to fill the stands and stay a viable option even for the MVC - otherwise we'll be getting those Summit invites in the mail and even worse - we'll be taking them seriously or looking at DII.
People mock that idea - but just a few years ago when we were in the upper half of the Valley and filling the stands with 10-12,000, nobody (actually a few did) ever thought we'd be where we are now setting 100-year records for futility, losses, low RPI, poor scheduling, 20, 30, and 40 pt losses, and low attendance. We have been repeatedly promised better, spent a ton aiming for better, but in the last 3, 4 and 5 years we are beginning to realize better isn't over the horizon..

[tornado]

Changes happening quickly....

-New rules prohibiting immediate eligibility for transfers could kick in right away..
If they are seniors or grad students they still would have to sit out but could be given an extra, 6th year, if necessary to complete their athletic eligibilty.
Sammy & Ekey just got in under the wire...

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/division-i-transfer-change-could-come-week

-paying players is the hot topic this week - that's what this is all about..

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/24409747/compensating-athletes-figures-to-be-key-issue-at-annual-ncaa-convention

I guarantee you that public schools will find a way to pay players using either taxpayer money or slush money from agents.

[bradleyfan124]

I find this laughable. They want the 5 power conferences to regulate college basketball. The very teams in those "power" conferences are the ones that cheat the most. And they are wanting them to regulate basketball. That is like asking the Mafia to regulate Organized Crime. There has to be a better way

[Da Coach]

I find this laughable. They want the 5 power conferences to regulate college basketball. The very teams in those "power" conferences are the ones that cheat the most. And they are wanting them to regulate basketball. That is like asking the Mafia to regulate Organized Crime. There has to be a better way

Agreed, all other D1 schools will essentially become the "minor leagues" to these power conferences. The rich will get a lot richer, and the poor will get poorer. I wouldn't be surprised to see rules eventually changed where the power conference schools can pluck any players they want from the "minor league" schools and they'll be allowed to play immediately. Cheating will become even more rampant, and they will adjust the rules to keep more of the NCAA television money among themselves and squeeze out the poorer schools.

[tornado]

The next step -- now NCAA athletes are going to organize and form a union....
then probably a strike to get paid big bucks by the colleges, then sports as we know it for schools without big time FB will be like juco ball

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2014/01/28/college-athletes-take-steps-to-form-labor-union/4959017/

[Da Coach]

The SEC commissioner outlines some of the changes coming- possibly by this fall, in setting up a separate subdivision for the top 5 conferences-

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10817368/sec-commissioner-mike-slive-lays-goals-five-conference-subdivision?src=mobile

[bradleyfan124]

What about the rest of college basketball or have they been forgotten. Oh I see the elitist attitude is really coming out. They will destroy college basketball as we know it today. What a shame! What a **** shame!

[tornado]

Butler, Wichita State and George Mason making the Final Four - and even teams such as Dayton, Bradley & UNI making the Sweet Sixteen and knocking off the legendary programs like Kansas - sends shivers down the spines of all the BCS folk..
what the BCS people are saying is - "those peons have no right to our money we will find a way to eliminate them.."
.. don't be surprised if their greed backfires, they will become big targets for million-dollar lawsuits, labor unions, and the "agents, runners, and AAU types" holding them up for a piece of the action...

[tornado]

..they will become big targets for million-dollar lawsuits...

actually the lawsuits have already begun - this guy, even tho he got a full scholarship - is suing because he wants more...
he actually had to pay some of his college expenses out of his own pocket (shame!) and he's not happy -
he wants the five "power conferences" to pay him back..

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/04/another.html

BTW - the vote was Thursday - they're gonna let the big guys run the show...

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/04/24/ncaa-votes-to-give-five-richest-conferences-autonomy/