(01-17-2014 01:42 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 11:50 AM)bigblueblindness Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 11:44 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

Quote:Her Iowa State colleague, Jamie Pollard, relayed "confusion" at his table, ultimately asking something to the effect of, how is this any different than what we have now?

When I read the news articles about the Hatch committee proposal, my reaction was the same as Pollard's.

This might be a committee cluster**** that makes no one happy. It ticks off the P5 (because it's not enough of the change they want) and also ticks off the other D-I schools (because they think it's the start of getting rolled over by the P5).

I am really wondering why AD's of different leagues are meeting to discuss these matters. Unless everyone is intending to go independent, is this not why we have conferences? Jamie Pollard needs to have met with Bowlsby along with the other 9 Big 12 schools, and Bowlsby should be at the table with Swofford.

This meeting should be all of the conference heads, and that's it. Otherwise, nothing substantive will be done.

The only good thing that can come out of a mix and mingle airing of frustration is a ground sell of consensus for change, or revolt. But why is anyone surprised. The NCAA exists for itself. It pockets 70 million a year from the NCAA basketball tournament and now has an endowment approaching .7 of a billion dollars. It is a corporate self entitled entity that is cheating smaller schools out of basketball revenue in the name of management. It totally baffles me as to why so many want to hold onto such a crooked and inept organization. It is so rife with problems and so bureaucratized that the only way to reform it is to destroy it and start over. I truly hope we get a breakaway.

I'm with you JR. I am ecstatic that the whole situation is chaotic there. If it was going smoothly then likely we get the least amount of change possible. The fact that certain parties in the Majors are pushing for even more, that is a good sign but not one that isn't going to create waves.

A very good sign indeed.

I would just like to point out to you how writers like this one are telling you things months later that persons like myself have already told you here. Don't know how many times I have told you guys that you already know these things far in advance of most folks if you are only willing to believe someone whom masks himself with a very trollish and childish name.

Quote:However, this was no more than a typical corporate retreat. As several industry officials told SI.com in some form, "This is all for show."

Following coordinated criticism and threats from power conference commissioners like the SEC's Mike Slive and the Big 12's Bob Bowslby last summer, a seven-person steering committee of university presidents has been formulating potentially "transformative" changes to the NCAA's cripplingly convoluted legislative process. This week, that group -- chaired by Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch -- unveiled a 14-page document detailing proposed changes.

As I said, we have been told enough already that we knew what was happening before this convention even happened. Hell, they already had a target implementation month! You cant have that unless you know what you are doing already.

Now you have a writer also talking and directly saying that the major conference commissioners were absolutely coordinating their efforts in regards to their statements and the pressure being exerted on everyone else by them.

When are folks going to stop questioning folks like myself? It happens everytime and then folks just quietly try to let it slide when the things myself and a few others say becomes revealed to the masses.

Well, I cant speak for others but that is the exact point of what I am doing. So keep on keeping on with it so I can keep showing my peers how easy it is to hide the truth in plain sight.