NCAA restructuring

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a bunch of independent college people are asking NCAA to put a stop to this overhaul & paying of athletes...

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11594807/professors-urge-override-vote-ncaa-legislation-allowing-power-5-conferences-award-stipends-addition-scholarships

I am sure it'll be as effective as spitting into the wind...

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Big conferences (BCS) proceed with plans to pay and provide gobs more benefits to players & recruits - obviously making now impossible for any midmajor to even stay in the race when recruiting against a BCS schools -

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20141001/SPORTS/141009917/11130/SPORTS?rssfeed=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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This is interesting...

I found two articles this morning detailing terrible new problems for the big schools - even tho they have trampled all over the smaller schools, hijacked the entire NCAA and changed the rules to suit them, and have done everything they can to hoard all the revenue for themselves and try to keep the smaller schools from getting any of it...

BUT - oddly they are still not happy and they are still having big time money problems...


-at Illinois - FB attendance is WAY down - by about 20,000!!!
Basketball attendance is also way down, and yet a couple of the new AD candidates are mid-major guys who have little or no experience with these big-school problems. Tsk, tsk...Loren Tate thinks the Illini are gonna hire the wrong guy and never get this problem fixed!

http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/illini-sports/baseball/2016-02-04/tate-new-ad-faces-uphill-battle.html

-at Indiana - they're actually having a great year in both football and basketball ...and media revenue is skyrocketing....
BUT their attendance is way off and money is a bigger concern than ever since costs are going up and they have to PAY players (something, of course, THEY pushed for not us)! Then of course, the amount of $$ coming from state sources (taxpayers) is drying up.
Then - of all the things to gripe about - their AD is griping about the high cost of paying those $$ multimillion/per year head coaching salaries!!
OMG- it's as if we are holding a gun to his head and FORCING the jerk to pay Kelvin Sampson $2 million per year!! It was their greed and lust to win at all costs that have produced this "problem"!

http://www.news-sentinel.com/sports/iu/Fred-Glass-and-the-State-of-IU-Athletics---Big-money--big-expenses

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Relatively big victory for the NCAA - the courts appear to determine (what we all knew already) that STUDENT ATHLETES ARE NOT EMPLOYEES...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/02/16/ncaa-wage-hours-lawsuit-samantha-sackos-penn-track-fair-labor-standards-act/80482630/

one of the lawsuits that sought to demand MORE money from NCAA in payment to student athletes - was dismissed

Originally filed by a University of Houston soccer player and named NCAA and EVERY Division I school...the lawsuit claimed NCAA athletes were being treated UNFAIRLY because they were NOT being paid fair salaries (when they were compared to professional salaries for athletes)

The court however found that JUST AS MANY student athletes play college sports and CHOOSE to do so without even getting a scholarship..
proves that
"This demonstrates unequivocally.....that the students..who choose to participate in sports – whether NCAA sports, club sports, or intramural sports – as part of their educational experience do so because they view it as beneficial to them.”
..... “finding that student athletes are not employees for FLSA purposes is the fact that the existence of thousands of unpaid college athletes on college campuses each year... and the Department of Labor has not (EVER) taken any action to apply the FLSA to them.”

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Yet another decision....athletes suing to be paid more...can proceed with their lawsuits

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/02/29/ncaa-conferencs-9th-circuit-class-action-compensation-limits/81106774/

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article from Sports Illustrated that analyzes the impact of the President's newest Supreme Court nominee and how it might affect the recent court cases vs. NCAA
It's thought to possibly be good news for NCAA

http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/03/21/merrick-garland-ncaa-amateurism-supreme-court

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perhaps another indicator of why the NCAA does business the way they do...

https://twitter.com/CBSSportsCBB/status/722823689478270976

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Cheyney State - one of the oldest universities in the the US and the oldest of the HCBU's
is dropping out of NCAA Division II and going independent

https://herosports.com/d2-sports/news-cheyney-cancels-athletics-ncaa-membership-avav