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Great read from SI on P5 and NCAA changes
What will happen?
At this point, it's easier to predict what won't happen. There is zero momentum to break from the NCAA and start a whole new organization. Whatever changes will be made will likely be under the NCAA's umbrella.
There's also little chance for significant change to the NCAA tournament. The one thing the NCAA does well is run championships, and unwinding the $10.8 billion CBS-Turner deal would be thorny.
The most likely change will be in the NCAA governance structure, and while that isn't particularly sexy, it's still significant.

How will things look?
This is impossible to answer right now. The Big 5 are likely to form a new tier -- perhaps Division 4 or a "super division" -- that creates an elite division of athletics still under the auspices of the NCAA. Think of a scenario where a total of 12 to 15 conferences -- about 150 schools -- end up in this new subset of Division I.
The key difference will be in governance structure and greater rule flexibility. The Big 5 want change so their ability to pass legislation, especially to provide more for their student athletes, isn't impeded by schools on radically different financial planes.
Think of a governance structure filled more with athletic directors and faculty instead of the current presidential-led Executive Committee. And the schools may end up with a structure similar fashion to the United Nations, where the "security counsel," namely the Big 5, have final veto power after hearing from all parties.


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college...re-change/
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2013 03:46 PM by billings.)
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RE: Great read from SI on P5 and NCAA changes
This isn't painting the doomsday scenario for the G5 that everyone is hoping for.
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RE: Great read from SI on P5 and NCAA changes
This is likely the most accurate article so far...Kudo's to the writer.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college...re-change/

I mentioned this a few days ago...there are over 300 D -1 schools...where this is going is more like 150 in a new division...you will have BYU and UConn involved...it was a ridiculous notion that they wouldn't be and just goes to prove that many of the writers around the country have no idea what they are talking about.
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RE: Great read from SI on P5 and NCAA changes
Makes sense. This would be a change that could get enough votes to pass.
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RE: Great read from SI on P5 and NCAA changes
(07-25-2013 02:21 PM)billings Wrote:  The key difference will be in governance structure and greater rule flexibility. The Big 5 want change so their ability to pass legislation, especially to provide more for their student athletes, isn't impeded by schools on radically different financial planes.

Think of a governance structure filled more with athletic directors and faculty instead of the current presidential-led Executive Committee. And the schools may end up with a structure similar fashion to the United Nations, where the "security counsel," namely the Big 5, have final veto power after hearing from all parties.

What the "Big 5" want is kind of the opposite of that last sentence. They don't want veto power over rules and legislation; they want to be able to pass rules and legislation without anyone outside their group having veto power.

My guess is that the "Big 5" get more power over D-I governance, and that they'll be able to do pretty much whatever they want with FBS football, but outside of football their clout will only extend to certain things that apply to all sports (like having the ability to pay "full cost of attendance" stipends, and having the ability to train student-athletes year-round even when school is not in session).
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RE: Great read from SI on P5 and NCAA changes
The armageddon stories are popular and drive interest, but rarely accurate (the verse is true as well). In conference realignment, everyone wanted to talk of four 16 team super conferences with a playoff only between themselves, but practical ways to actually expect to get there was really hard to get in reality. It fit well as a nice piece as a whole, but with actual conference decisions, it was never going to work anywhere near that level. Beyond that, its doubtful the conferences themselves ever saw anything magical about 16 and even more doubtful they'd work close enough with other conferences to get that to work when they were all competing for the same couple valuable schools.

In this, no way was a 12 year contract just negotiated and signed between the 10 conferences and independents just going to be undone a few months later.
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