NCAA restructuring - Bradley is one of 27 schools that have filed opposition

[tornado]

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/restructuring-moves-forward

Bradley, Loyola, - plus others form a group of 27 member schools in NCAA that have officially filed their opposition to the NCAA plan for restructuring -
however - it would have taken 75 members for the board to reconsider- so the NCAA will proceed now with their plan to completely restructure and hand the keys to the 70 or so big football schools that we term the BCS schools..
You gotta wonder if the request by Bradley to be on the other side & oppose the big boys will be "remembered" somewhere down the road by those schools in regards to scheduling in other sports, etc....

[bradleyfan124]

There should be over 200 schools opposing this

[Da Coach]

That would seem so, but the threat of these schools leaving the NCAA altogether, and taking their hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year with them and completely divorcing themselves with the remaining NCAA schools is a scenario that must really scare most midmajor school's presidents and ADs.

How would the other midmajor schools get by with only non-BCS and non-football schools? There might not be enough money to support college athletics at all, and if there was, it would need major cutbacks. The only TV networks that might be willing to broadcast games would be lesser-known networks like the FoxSports and CBSSports regional networks. Eventually if the big boys start their own basketball tournament it could do to the NCAA tournament what the NCAA did to the NIT 60 years ago and turn it into an also-ran or losers tournament.

This is a case of the smaller schools going along with this move, even though they know it will be destructive to the NCAA in the long run, but for now it keeps them alive a little longer.

[bradleyfan124]

That is the ultimate goal of the big schools anyway. Divorce themselves from the "others" so they can do what they want. They want the ability to run their own show and to hell with the other schools. They are going to ruin college basketball. I think there is a strategy there for the other schools to band together and force the "bigger " schools to quit being so greedy.

[tornado]

now that the big schools have "autonomy" and are policing themselves - you gotta wonder how crooked this kind of thing gets to give some schools even more recruiting advantage

http://zagsblog.com/articles/kentucky-hosts-90-nba-personnel-for-combine-calipari-says-it-may-become-annual-event/

Kentucky is officially no longer a college, nor an amateur program - it is an NBA-prep program - and giving their kids this kind of advantage it a massive "extra benefit" that they used to penalize schools for..

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/pac10/2010-07-29-arizona-olson-ncaa-sanctions_N.htm

[bradleyfan124]

Makes me wonder if down the road they will start to implode. Illinois might get mad at Kentucky for creating an unfair advantage over them and want some form of policing to keep Kentucky inline within there own group. Also most are state schools. Makes me wonder as state budget cut time comes if most people will get tired of some people having to scrounge for hand outs but the schools lavish gifts and money on athletes

[Old Coach]

Makes me wonder if down the road they will start to implode. Illinois might get mad at Kentucky for creating an unfair advantage over them and want some form of policing to keep Kentucky inline within there own group. Also most are state schools. Makes me wonder as state budget cut time comes if most people will get tired of some people having to scrounge for hand outs but the schools lavish gifts and money on athletes

As long as the kick-back from the Big Ten Network is nearing $50 million per year, I don't think they'll have to worry too much where the money is coming from.

[tornado]

Well - Colorado is one of the BCS guys who are thinking all is gonna be gravy now that they run the show in NCAA...

but.....suddenly their AD announces an unexpected sudden major shortfall of $3 million in revenue supposedly due to soft ticket sales
Remember - Colorado bolted from the Big 12, abandoned all their long time rivals for teams their fans know little about -
..to join the Pac-12 thinking there'd be more chance for success and more revenue - but Colorado is just 2-6 overall and DEAD LAST in the Pac-12 at 0-5....
can't say it surprises me much - maybe shoulda stayed where they were....tsk, tsk...

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2014/10/31/Colleges/Colorado.aspx

Nebraska is doing well on the field & on the court yet they are also experienced enormous budget issues with their conference change
as they forfeited plenty to leave the Big 12. They are looking at a $62.6 million SHORTFALL

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/31/nebraska-facing-projected-626m-budget-shortfall/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Recent news has a lot of other schools facing budget issues...
Oregon has mounting debt and needs $2 billion - http://www.oregonlive.com/education/...announces.html
Brown University has mounting debt - even discussing dropping athletics- http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014...ability-goals/
Michigan is "broke" (but not running out of money)- http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/road...hlissel-regent