Newly Released NCAA Division I Recommendations

The same thing they’ve always done—siphon $$$ from P5 athletic departments while providing absolutely nothing of value in return.

Offer recommendations instead of requirements.

Reminds me of that scene in that famous movie:

Red: NCAA? Well, now let me see. You know, I don’t have any idea what they do.
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you’re ready to rejoin the athletic association of universities…
Red: I know what you think it means, sonny. To me, it’s just a made up word. A politician’s group, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. 

Release new division 1 recommendations 

The better question is what can they actually do? We treat them like some wealthy, powerful monolith, but the truth is, the money that they have pales in comparison to what individual schools are now willing to throw at their problems. It's very tough to regulate someone with more power than you have.

Penn State was really a turning point. A lot of people realized there are only so many billable hours to lawyers the NCAA is willing to commit to any problem, and if you outspend that, you can get away with just about anything.

They deal with the engineers so the customers don't have to.  THEY HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS!

Put up a curtain.

I guess that essentially means every seed under a 9 seed is an auto play in game? 
 

So technically makes the First Four round larger instead of just 4 games. 

my proposal is to allow everyone, with 64 'sub-sub-regionals' at home gyms of schools, selected and seeded by the current process. wouldn't it be cool to see a crisler regional where we host u of d, oakland, eastern michigan and toledo?  once you win your gym you advance to the Big Tournament.

even better, who wouldn't want to see st. peter's host someone like temple, quinnipiac, and njit for actual ncaa tournament games?  think 'championship week' x 1000.  plus we don't have to listen to the annual "oklahoma teacher's college deserves to be in" conversations.  you're ALL in, now prove you belong.

Haven't read the report, but there is a difference between having a scholarship for four years and counting against the scholarship limit.  Unless, it counts against a scholarship limit, even without NIL, all a school would have to do is force a player to medically retire.  Yes, you have a scholarship for 4 years, but that scholarship could morph into a scholarship that doesn't count against a team's scholarship limit.  

Still better for players then getting booted off the team and not having a way to pay for school.  I think Michigan had a couple of instances like the basketball player in the plane crash, where the player no longer could play on the team (and didn't count against the limit), but continued receiving scholarship money 

The wild wild west the ncaa has created is destroying the sport we love!  

NIL without it's addition to existing rules created the recruiting world we live in where NIL to hs kids that haven't done a dang thing are promised ridiculous things and some actually getting massive money.  And that does not come with a binding contract to stay with a school.

Portal, just transfer anytime, anywhere no matter what has been invested into the player by the school.  Oh and just keep transferring. 

Need a player and auburn has a lber you need, just have your NIL partner call them and show them the car they get, the nil money and hey, we need you next year..  signed roll tide.  Osu has a receiver you need, just tell your NIL partner who you want.  It's okay the NCAA won't do anything about it, even if they know all the details.  

Well,  that has worked for MLB for over a century, thanks to the Supreme Court. 

Not sure I understand what you're concerned about in the first point, a school wouldn't have to honor a scholarship for four years if the student transfers away.  Although I can't think of any, there might be other ways for a student athlete to "break" a scholarship, but quitting (including medically retiring), transferring or going pro would seem to cover the vast majority of situations.

On Item 1, I like your point.  I like the 4 year requirement for players but the portal makes it one sided.  They should give a player the option of a 1 year or 4 year scholarship agreement.  If the player picks a 4 year deal then its a commitment from both sides for 4 years.  If the player goes with a 1 year deal that can be extended annually, then they have the option of entering the portal.  
 

The other problem with scholarships is that for rich teams, NIL can make them irrelevant. And that may be ok for 20 of 128 schools but it probably sucks for the other 108.  There is no parity between schools with unlimited paid rosters vs everyone else.  Even boosters at lower tier schools that think they can compete with their $ will eventually give up. Here, they need to address the problem of a player that can profit off of NIL being used to get a commitment.  They haven’t been willing to touch this or enforce it.  But NIL discussions prior to signing a commitment to a school should be outlawed and enforced.  NIL is legally not supposed to be used as an enticement.  So they need to draw a clear line.  NIL discussions can only take place after signing day. That was the original intent of NIL.  Denard was super popular as a player and he should be able to profit off of that while in school. How they actually  enforce the pre-commitment NIL deals and discussions is the problem. It’s complicated. Plus the cat is already out of the bag.  Solving this issue is the most important issue for getting to any kind of a fair playing field. 

It would guarantee a scholarship for four years in cases where an athlete is hurt or simply not good enough for another team to accept them as a transfer.

I would hope it is pretty standard practice to continue to honor a scholarship for an athlete who suffers a career ending injury, but I wouldn't bet on it being universal.

This is an awfully long post to say that the NCAA should apply pressure for schools to honor 4 years of a scholarship.

As a follow on, I'm curious how this impacts the fractional scholarships currently in place in most sports besides football and basketball. I.e. how in baseball you're allowed to give out a maximum of 11.7 scholarships over 27 players per year. In addition to the four-year thing, they definitely need to allow schools to give out full scholarships to all their scholarship players, instead of this crap where guys get .1 scholarship, .2 scholarship, etc. because there's only 11.7 scholarships to go around for 27 guys...