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Post by glensfalls on Jul 22, 2013 18:42:36 GMT -5
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Post by DelmartianEd on Jul 23, 2013 9:33:32 GMT -5
Hopefully it stays confined to football.
It's still creating too much of a financial disparity between the power-conference schools and everybody else.
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Post by MTS on Jul 23, 2013 12:02:48 GMT -5
I don't it affects basketball - at least I hope it doesn't. This seems to be a football move only. Since mid-majors don't really make an impact on football they can get away with it. But taking mid-majors out of the NCAA tournament would ruin the NCAAs and the money the first weekend generates. Mid-majors make the NCAA tournament...unless you are a die-hard basketball fan the interest isn't the same after the first weekend which is the best maybe in all of sports.
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Post by $cott on Jul 23, 2013 13:42:15 GMT -5
I don't it affects basketball - at least I hope it doesn't. This seems to be a football move only. Since mid-majors don't really make an impact on football they can get away with it. But taking mid-majors out of the NCAA tournament would ruin the NCAAs and the money the first weekend generates. Mid-majors make the NCAA tournament...unless you are a die-hard basketball fan the interest isn't the same after the first weekend which is the best maybe in all of sports. What it would lead to is the potential that the big schools could pay their kids while the small schools couldn't and that the big schools could pilfer transfers whenever they want and even use money to lure them. The small schools would become developmental programs for the big schools. All the Siena greats the past couple years would have never lasted all four years here. And leaving wouldn't be being disloyal anymore than guys going to the Astros are being disloyal to the Valley Cats, it would just be part of the system. Players would simply go to Siena for the chance to prove they should be playing for money at a bigger school. |
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Post by DelmartianEd on Jul 27, 2013 2:22:34 GMT -5
Well, a lot of this is about the cost of living stipend for sure. The proposal on the table was for $2,000 per year. That hardly counts as paying the kids. A lot of academic scholarships include cost of living stipends like that.
And honestly, you have to wonder if some of the scandals you see around the NCAA, with student-athletes getting sticky fingers or getting free tattoos or whatever, could be reduced if you just made their cost of living situation a little bit easier. A lot of the scholarship players come from low-income homes, but they're supposed to be peers with fellow students who've got enough money floating around?
The NCAA is going to end up changing some of its governance model. What's interesting is that when the cost of living stipend was shot down, it wasn't just the Division I schools making the decision. The College of St. Rose in D-II and Skidmore College in D-III get the same amount of representation as both Siena and Syracuse.
I could see some more of the rulebook decisions getting split up. This probably isn't really about the five contract-bowl conferences breaking off. It's probably about letting FBS football decide its own rules, and letting Division I basketball decide its own rules, etc.
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