http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...y/18842221

Quote:...the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has proposed a new -- and radical way -- of distributing the hundreds of million dollars in new BCS media rights revenue.

The Knight Commission's report, obtained by CBSSports.com, recommends rewarding the individual schools and not the conferences based on academic standards and not on-the-field performance or market value.

They would break up the schools into three tiers, and the money would be split to individual schools, not by conferences, based on graduation rate.

Quote:The Commission's preferred model divides the football programs into three categories: Tier I (graduation rates of at least 70 percent), Tier II (graduation rates between 60 and 69.9 percent) and Tier III (graduation rates below 60 percent).

In the commission's preferred model, Tier I and Tier II schools would evenly split 50 percent of the new media rights revenue with the remaining revenue split among the Tier I schools. The Tier III schools would not receive any revenue.

The breakdown of schools here: http://www.cbssports.com/images/collegef...del426.pdf

So under this plan, 20 current AQ or soon-to-be AQ schools would not get any BCS payout:

Purdue, TAMU, UCLA, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Houston, Texas, FSU, NCSU, SDSU, Arkansas, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Cal, Ole Miss, USF, Arizona, and Oklahoma.

Larry Scott said the idea would get "serious discussion." It may not get implemented as drawn up, but there could definitely be a tie to academic progress included in the new BCS revenue split.

Now there's an interesting concept. Maybe it really will get some consideration, given that the people voting on all this are university presidents, not coaches or ADs.

Extremely noble idea from the Knight Commission, but I'm going to take a wild guess that any system where Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Texas A&M and UCLA don't get a BCS payout isn't going to fly very well.

(04-26-2012 11:25 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  Extremely noble idea from the Knight Commission, but I'm going to take a wild guess that any system where Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Texas A&M and UCLA don't get a BCS payout isn't going to fly very well.

Yeah, this will never happen

(04-26-2012 11:25 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  Extremely noble idea from the Knight Commission, but I'm going to take a wild guess that any system where Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Texas A&M and UCLA don't get a BCS payout isn't going to fly very well.

The past is the past. They'd only need to do it going forward...and they'd have plenty of time before it was implemented. I'm sure that ramp up time would be part of the negotiation for approval.

(04-26-2012 11:29 AM)apex_pirate Wrote:  

(04-26-2012 11:25 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  Extremely noble idea from the Knight Commission, but I'm going to take a wild guess that any system where Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Texas A&M and UCLA don't get a BCS payout isn't going to fly very well.

The past is the past. They'd only need to do it going forward...and they'd have plenty of time before it was implemented. I'm sure that ramp up time would be part of the negotiation for approval.

Yes - and to not implement this, at least partially, would blow the last hole in the argument that athletes are students first, athletes second.

I won't ever happen but I like it!

I could see this possibly happening with a fraction of the total revenue pool, but I can't see it happening with the entire revenue pool.

I can't see how this would ever fly, but to just flat out say no to it would look really bad since these schools are supposed to at least pretend to value academics.

So BCS money should be distributed based upon graduation rates, not based on which schools/conferences actually bring in the money in the first place?

Stupid, stupid idea. Laughibly dumb. Glad it'll never happen.

Which will easily be circumvented by the SEC enrolling all their athletes in Basket Weaving or Paint by Numbers degree plans.

(04-26-2012 12:59 PM)Playoffs Now Wrote:  Which will easily be circumvented by the SEC enrolling all their athletes in Basket Weaving or Paint by Numbers degree plans.

This is already done and has been done for decades.

http://autiger62.com/cheaters/formatted.htm

"I remember in particular one great hero who was an All-America guard. He had been on the campus for seven years, and we had labored and dragged him through everything but elementary English. I would sit and read to him and point out and define the various parts of speech. "Here, Spike," I would say, "is a noun. And here is a verb."
He would nod his head, and I would read on. After six lines I would point back to the two words and ask him what they were. He would give me a blank stare, and the session would be ended.

I got Spike his pass in English, however, and the night he marched up and received his degree his professor and I sat in Tuscaloosa's most respectable bar and drank a toast to the great American system of public education. "

Noble idea, sure. Won't happen and if it did, graduation rates solely used as criteria is a terrible idea. We all know that athletic departments cluster athletes into the easier degrees. The APR and any other rule that promotes graduation rates as some indicator of education success is bogus. The College of Swahili will become a standard degree program at all big-time athletic universities. :)

Also, did anyone else get a chuckle out of Stanford's easy class program advice handed out by the Cardinal athletic department to it's athletes? This after years of "The Bootleg" promoting the tremendous grad rates at Stanford.