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The Coming Divide in College Athletic--The Telegraph
“It’s gonna accentuate the division between the haves and the have-nots. I don’t think there’s any question about it. And you might as well just admit it,” said Michael Adams, the outgoing Georgia president. “But the divisions already exist that are pretty pronounced. So I think the 65 schools in the big conferences are going to separate themselves even further from those schools that are not.”
The core issue, according to big schools, is the desire to pay their athletes a $2,000 stipend, for what is called “cost of attendance.” SEC commissioner Mike Slive proposed that two years ago, among other measures, and at one point, it was set to be adopted. But smaller schools, worried how they would pay for that, led a fight against it, voting it down.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2013/05/07/2469867/...rylink=cpy
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