NCAA D1 Board Approves "Autonomy" for the Big 5

Submitted by sadeto on

As expected, the autonomy motion passed and now enters a 60-day comment period. If 75 D1 universities express disapproval, the board will reconsider. If 125 object, the motion is suspended. 

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Edit: The comment period is for feedback from the D1 universities. If 125 or more object, the motion is suspended while the board reconsiders (if 75 - 124 object, the motion stays in place while the board reconsiders). The board can either withdraw the motion or reaffirm it; if the latter, it goes to a vote of all D1 institutions, with a 5/8 majority needed to pass. 

MI Expat NY

August 7th, 2014 at 3:55 PM ^

These are the same bunch of clowns that nearly screwed up the whole damn enterprise by expanding out to 96 teams.  Maybe they've learned their lesson, but I'm far from convinced that they understand the importance of the 64 team bracket, that first glorious weekend and the cinderella factor. 

funkywolve

August 7th, 2014 at 2:48 PM ^

The Big Ten is the only 'Big 5' conference that plays hockey.  I guess the NCAA could still have the Frozen 4, but the Big Ten might not be a part of it.

College World series would be different.  Maybe not necessarily the actual 'College World Series' cause most of the final 8 schools reside from Big 5 conferences but in the regionals and sub regionals there is usually a good amount of teams from outside the Big 5 conferences.

Lacrosse too.  The ACC is pretty good in lax but most of the other schools in the Big 5 conferences don't have lacrosse as a varsity sport.

SECcashnassadvantage

August 7th, 2014 at 3:26 PM ^

We will hit minor league sports status as pay goes up. Goodbye Band, bye anything with girls, bye to soccer, bye to baseball, bye to lacrosse, bye to Boise State type drama, etc,. What a shame because I loved college being different than the pros.

Wolverine Devotee

August 7th, 2014 at 3:35 PM ^

Wouldn't be the first time football ruined everything.

See: old Big East, every rivalry that has gone away and the landscape of every non-football sport.

Don

August 7th, 2014 at 3:36 PM ^

Yet you were saying just a couple of days ago that Michigan needs to start paying their players under the table.

Make up your mind.

Everyone Murders

August 7th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^

Title IX gets short shrift in all of this.  I'm not entirely sure how this could work unless the stipends are extended to athletes on a sex-neutral basis.  And since football and basketball are for nearly all "Big 5" schools the only net-positive revenue sports, I think it all gets a bit stickier than a lot of people realize.  Caveat- I'm not a Title IX expert by any stretch.

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

bluebyyou

August 7th, 2014 at 4:23 PM ^

As I read through these posts, more and more  I believe that regardless of how this ends, the law of unintended consequences is going to rear its ugly head and create chaos.

On a related note, with new recruiting rules presumably coming out  of this new alliance, does anyone truly believe that the SEC's habit of oversigning would be outlawed?   

grumbler

August 7th, 2014 at 9:42 PM ^

The lack of reading skills, and subsequent wild-ass assumptions about schools leaving the NCAA or ruining the NCAA basketball tournament astonishes me.  Kinda depresses me, too.  Aren't a lot of other people here graduates of the University of Michigan, and yet so many still can't read and comprehend simple newspaper English?