New NCAA plan for power conferences
The new NCAA plan, which is a proposal at this point but likely to be adopted, will give power conferences more say in their affairs. This could include offering more generous scholarships. I think this is going to start an arm race among the power conferences and a complete recruiting dominance over other conferences. It is not clear if a conference can decide to pay its players.
You make it worse for those who already can't compete.
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than writing something inane like "I agree." Underscores a good point, makes other readers consider.
April 25th, 2014 at 10:03 AM ^
Isn't that what the Upvote is for? My personal favorite annoyance is the "That is all." at the end of a post instead of just typing a f*cking period and moving on with life.
Exactly my point and I should have noted that. Typing "this" and nothing else is just a lame attempt to get MGoPoints, which, in the end, mean absolutely nothing.
April 29th, 2014 at 10:51 PM ^
(and worth NO POINTS) is the practice of downvoting the OP of threads you don't like.
p.s.:
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^^^This!
April 25th, 2014 at 11:01 AM ^
So, are you saying that the phrase "I agree" is "inane," but "this" is a superior response due to having one less word?
April 25th, 2014 at 10:07 AM ^
and you won't be annoyed at the occasional use of “...this^ ” on MgoBlog.
And stop down voting every OP you click on. THAT'S annoying.
I can down vote anything I please.
April 25th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^
is actually a close second
April 24th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
I don't even know that this would change things at most programs. The real impact would be at schools in urban areas, and it wouldn't really provide an extra advantage. Putting a cap on rent, etc. that doesn't reflect real world prices at schools like USC, Stanford, and UCLA just means kids are forced to live in shithole apartments, commute from far away, or stay on campus with multiple roommates. Or get mom and dad to help out (which still ended up causing trouble at SC when Dwayne Jarrett was rooming with Matt Leinart in a place Leinart's folks were subsidizing while charging Jarrett just the amount he was able to get with his scholarship).
We may benefit slightly since Ann Arbor rents are probably higher than say, Tallahassee's, but I don't see this as a big issue for more than a handful of schools.
April 24th, 2014 at 10:34 PM ^
April 25th, 2014 at 10:12 AM ^
That's the part that might play into stipends that was discussed on another thread (Calipari). NCAA may want to manage this cost and the schools may want to include “flights home” (mentioned by Calipari).
April 24th, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
Maybe I am wrong, but I think you missed his point. He was asking why shouldn't Eastern Michigan also be able to pay players if they want too. Why leave other conferences under the old rules and essentially take us back to the 50s where all the top recruits end up at a few schools regardless of playing time availability.
Wait, all the top players don't end up in the power conferences? By my count there are 4 players in the ESPN 300 this year who are not going to one of the 5 power conferences.
And the point isn't that they shouldn't be allowed, it's that these schools are the ones who have held back the power conferences from being able to do so. The NCAA has attempted votes in the past to allow this for everyone and the non-power conference schools have blocked the attempts (and they have way more of the votes than the power conferences do.)
It would be so Football for it to ruin the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
In 2011, when asked about a potential BCS playoff format, Carr said:
"I was in New York a month ago for the College Football Hall of Fame and I talked to some important people that said in the next 10 years or so, there could be a group of prominent schools with large budgets and stadiums that could break away from the NCAA and play their own schedule. There could be anywhere from 60-65 teams that would break away and play their own schedule and then have a playoff."
April 24th, 2014 at 11:55 PM ^
Lloyd didn't really call it as much as he just relayed some information.
This SBNation article touches a little on what the changes would entail - HERE
Most notably, the power conferences would be able to approve rules that only apply to them, but there would also be "pemissible legislation" and "actionable legislation". Permissible legislation would mean that the "Big 5" conferences could adopt a rule that other schools or conferences may or may not adopt based on their own sensibilities. Actionable legislation would be of the variety that still needs to be voted into existence, but this is apparently the more controverisal action item.
I wish M could just play 10 Big Ten games and if they win the league, play in the Rose Bowl. I can't always get what I want.
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April 24th, 2014 at 11:11 PM ^
What this is going to do is create the final four conferences of 16 teams that has been the ideal since all this alignment crap started. 4 Power Conferences. 64 teams, the rest are have-nots and will be cut out of the picture.
Nah, Notre Dame will never join a conference.
April 25th, 2014 at 11:40 AM ^
the 65th team is. And if either winner of the Rose Bowl or the whatever the other SEC-ACC-ish bowl is called look weaker than ND - then ND gets the second national title game shot .... /s
No it won't. That requires a very chaotic system to have order imposed on it. Who is going to impose that order?
Fine, I'll do it. Sigh...
*rolls up sleeves*
The people that print the money, thats who. The money trail will give you all the answers you need.
April 25th, 2014 at 10:30 AM ^
Nonsense. Money doesn't incentivize tidy little systems that seem perfect just because they make perfect little numbers. Money incentivizes dozens of things that make no fucking sense whatsoever.
April 25th, 2014 at 11:12 AM ^
You mean the Fed?
Shit. We are doomed.
April 24th, 2014 at 11:23 PM ^
After reading a few articles on this, you can really see how this has the potential to really shake up basketball. I see this idea as being great for football, but wow could it change basketball. There are some rather powerful basketball schools that fall on the outside of those 5 power conferences. This could be interesting. Also, I wonder where Notre Dame falls? Do they just consider them part of the ACC now?
April 24th, 2014 at 11:45 PM ^
exactly what the 1% are doing
The thing is, college football already has changed college athletics. The demands on the players, the level of competition, the amount of money have all already changed the landscape of college football and, by extension, college athletics. These proposals, union talk, etc are all born of an already changing landscape, not the other way around.
I think this every time the union stuff starts getting debated. The changes we're seeing develop, good or bad for the future of the sport, were blatantly inevitable. If anything, it's kind of amazing seeing the institution as it exists today hold on for so long.
Will all of this be good for the sport or will it kill it? None of us can know. But the fact is, it's already changed, and ultimately something has to give.
April 25th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
It's been changing for slowly for years now which is why I've slowly been losing interest for year now too.
Still, it appears that some bigger changes are ahead, possibly drastic ones that might really destroy what we used to love.
It's probably a bit early to write a post mortem on college football but it appears to be that the fatal flaw was letting the big money of corporate television get in. I know that it sounds a bit naive but I've argued before that college football should have been broadcast for free (without advertisements) on public broadcasting networks supported by taxpayers. Most of these are public schools and it's clear that the games are often of significant interest to the general public.
That might have kept much of the really big money out. Instead, we've had corporate suits from the likes of ESPN ramping things up everywhere (more games, more bowls, Tuesday nights, etc) and flooding the game with a windfall of money that is now threatening to tear it apart.