N.C.A.A. Votes to Give Greater Autonomy to Richest Conferences

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vol66 said:
Look...The NCAA is Ohio State, LSU, Boise State, La. Tech and everybody in between.
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Which is why I'm not making it a blanket win/loss for everyone. An us vs them mentality exists between large and small athletic schools. Sure the NCAA will appeal, but the SEC, Big 12, Big 10, ect aren't weeping over this ruling. They saw it coming, as did everyone. They, the Power 5, already argued for and won the right to pay their players before the ruling was made. The smaller schools have fought the large school over player benefits.

I'm not saying the universities didn't work the system to their favor when they could. That much was obvious. But the smaller school are the ones that will lose in this. They know they can't compete with big budget schools when it comes to paying players.

I agree there will be more lawsuits coming from somewhere as a result of this ruling. Too much money for there not to be. And so far, this initial ruling doesn't sound like athletes are going to be paid the big $$$ some people thought.
 
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#102
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TheDeeble said:
Which is why I'm not making it a blanket win/loss for everyone. An us vs them mentality exists between large and small athletic schools. Sure the NCAA will appeal, but the SEC, Big 12, Big 10, ect aren't weeping over this ruling. They, the Power 5, already argued for and won the right to pay their players before the ruling was made. The smaller schools have fought the large school over player benefits.

I'm not saying the universities didn't work the system to their favor when they could. That much was obvious. But the smaller school are the ones that will lose in this. They know they can't compete with big budget schools when it comes to paying players.
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That's an interesting way to look at it. The HAVES win, the HAVE NOTS lose.

Of course until yesterday, they were all in the same boat and the HAVES had the HAVE NOTS to blame...for all that was wrong..."the little schools won't give us our votes, maybe we should break away and form our own division."

Here's an idea...why don't the Super 5 leave and take March Madness with them? They already have football. The NCAA doesn't have anything at all to do with the playoff in football, why don't the big 65 take the Final Four, and leave the other colleges to fend for themselves?
 
#103
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vol66 said:
That's an interesting way to look at it. The HAVES win, the HAVE NOTS lose.

Of course until yesterday, they were all in the same boat and the HAVES had the HAVE NOTS to blame...for all that was wrong..."the little schools won't give us our votes, maybe we should break away and form our own division."

Here's an idea...why don't the Super 5 leave and take March Madness with them? They already have football. The NCAA doesn't have anything at all to do with the playoff in football, why don't the big 65 take the Final Four, and leave the other colleges to fend for themselves?
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I don't know why, but I'd guess it has something to do with maintaining amateur athletes. That's the thing that the NCAA has built itself upon. Whatever motivations universities had for staying the in the NCAA may be soon irrelevant.

Hasn't that been discussed before? At least the football portion? The formation of a super conference that tells the NCAA to eff off?
 
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TheDeeble said:
I don't know why, but I'd guess it has something to do with maintaining amateur athletes. That's the thing that the NCAA has built itself upon. Whatever motivations universities had for staying the in the NCAA may be soon irrelevant.

Hasn't that been discussed before? At least the football portion? The formation of a super conference that tells the NCAA to eff off?
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Nobody cares about seeing a .500 USC basketball team playing a .350 Alabama team in the NCAA Basketball tournament which is what you would have if the big 65 took their March Madness ball and went out on their own. They might be able to pull off an 8 team football playoff (people might buy that, unless you are a Boise St. player), but they KNOW they need, for instance, Mercer or Wichita St. for their 64(8) b-ball tourney to be accepted.

The money from March madness is at the crux of why the HAVES don't form D IV, and the HAVE NOTS need that money even more and it is why they give the HAVES the store.

That's not very eloquent, it's late...apologies...
 
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