http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/....24.14.pdf

The agenda for next week's NCAA Board of Governors meeting details the new NCAA governance structure and what P5 autonomy really means.

The new structure isn't all that interesting, but it is notable that some AD's and student reps will have votes on the Council and Board of Directors.

The areas of autonomy for the P5 will fall into two categories:

Quote:Permissive legislation ? Designed to allow permissive use of resources by any member to advance the legitimate educational or athletics-related needs of student-athletes. Under this proposed governance model, permissive legislation that is developed and adopted among these institutions and conferences may also be adopted by the rest of Division I at each institution's respective discretion, or as determined by its conference.

Or

Actionable legislation ? Adopted and applied to the 65-member institutions to modify specified rules in a manner that enhances the student-athlete experience, or decreases athletics time demands or other burdens of student-athletes. These legislative changes that address student-athlete interests or experience will apply only to the five conferences and their 65-member institutions, although Division I members generally would be free to address the same or similar issues through legislation considered by the new Council ? on any "actionable" item, the 27 other conferences will have the option to adopt at the next Council meeting (instead of waiting for a full legislative cycle), through a nonweighted vote of the 27, rather than a vote of the full Council.

So basically, the idea is that autonomy will be granted to the P5, and certain items will allow adoption by other conferences at their discretion, but other items will require the other 27 conferences to adopt by majority vote.

As of now the scope of autonomy is this:

Permissive:
health and wellness issues
meals and nutrition (pretty much already passed across D1)
full cost of attendance scholarships
expenses for students and family members (e.g. comping admissions, postseason travel for students' families, etc.)
allowing loans for career insurance or allowing the school to provide such insurance
rules for agents and advisors
rules for allowing students to keep likeness for areas other than sports (e.g. allowing students to pursue music career, etc.)

Actionable:
rules related to terms of financial aid (e.g. making scholarships guaranteed, etc.)
ability to cover pre-enrollment expenses (e.g. transportation to enroll, academic support, medical expenses, etc.)
allowing for athletic "dead periods" (e.g. acadmeic redshirt, etc.)
changes to transfer rules within the P5
changes to recruiting rules
rules to better define coaching and support roles

Football is an area that falls automatically under the shared governance structure, meaning all football conferences would have the opportunity to vote on such rules and the P5 can't set those sorts of rules on their own.