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We are pleased that the NCAA Governance Redesign Model was adopted today by the NCAA Board of Directors. We extend our congratulations to Dr. Nathan Hatch and to the NCAA Steering Committee for its excellent work in designing a model that we believe will enjoy broad acceptance. We also appreciate the exemplary efforts of our NCAA Board representative, Dr. John Hitt of UCF, and our Conference Board chair, Dr. Gerald Turner of SMU, who were deeply engaged in this process.
 
Our conference membership supports the new governance model and the opportunities it will present to enhance the student-athlete experience and student-athlete welfare. Our presidents and athletic directors are steadfast in their commitment to these ideals and also to providing our student-athletes with the ability to compete at the highest level of collegiate athletics.

Couple of snippets below:

"Wright State president David Hopkins said that even though his school competes in the Horizon League, which isn't one of the five high-resources conferences, he did not believe it would be a death knell to its ability to compete."

"Long-term, though, there will be questions about whether an NCAA structure can work with 65 schools in one category and more than 280 in another while living under the same so-called "big tent" and also sharing hundreds of millions in revenue each year generated by the Division I men's basketball tournament."

There's been an unofficial dividing line; now it's official. In 2013 we were 'in the club' for one year (sort of). We're on the outside looking in again.

The G5 and the rest of the small-fry can spout off all the brave words they want to but if you think the gap is big now just wait and see what happen over the next 3-5 years.

Scary times.....we either have to get back in the club or in a decade we're basically what FCS is today and FCS gets pushed even further down the totem pole.

Yup. We are doomed. what part of "Power 5 Autonomy" are they missing out on?

(08-08-2014 11:18 AM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  Yup. We are doomed. what part of "Power 5 Autonomy" are they missing out on?

But not doomed forever.

"In a world of haves and have-nots, the American has officially been relegated to college football's version of Triple-A.

After enjoying privileged status throughout the BCS era, the conference formerly known as the Big East watched the clock strike 12 on it after champion UCF shocked Baylor in January's Fiesta Bowl. Goodbye, Power 5. Hello, Group of 5. So long, automatic bid to a lucrative postseason payday. Glad to make your acquaintances, Miami Beach Bowl"

(08-08-2014 08:45 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  "In a world of haves and have-nots, the American has officially been relegated to college football's version of Triple-A.

After enjoying privileged status throughout the BCS era, the conference formerly known as the Big East watched the clock strike 12 on it after champion UCF shocked Baylor in January's Fiesta Bowl. Goodbye, Power 5. Hello, Group of 5. So long, automatic bid to a lucrative postseason payday. Glad to make your acquaintances, Miami Beach Bowl"

Do you recommend giving up? I say to hell with that.

(08-09-2014 09:48 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-08-2014 08:45 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  "In a world of haves and have-nots, the American has officially been relegated to college football's version of Triple-A.

After enjoying privileged status throughout the BCS era, the conference formerly known as the Big East watched the clock strike 12 on it after champion UCF shocked Baylor in January's Fiesta Bowl. Goodbye, Power 5. Hello, Group of 5. So long, automatic bid to a lucrative postseason payday. Glad to make your acquaintances, Miami Beach Bowl"

Do you recommend giving up? I say to hell with that.

It's one thing to give up. It's another to realize you've been excluded & excommunicated.

(08-09-2014 10:09 AM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  

(08-09-2014 09:48 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-08-2014 08:45 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  "In a world of haves and have-nots, the American has officially been relegated to college football's version of Triple-A.

After enjoying privileged status throughout the BCS era, the conference formerly known as the Big East watched the clock strike 12 on it after champion UCF shocked Baylor in January's Fiesta Bowl. Goodbye, Power 5. Hello, Group of 5. So long, automatic bid to a lucrative postseason payday. Glad to make your acquaintances, Miami Beach Bowl"

Do you recommend giving up? I say to hell with that.

It's one thing to give up. It's another to realize you've been excluded & excommunicated.

To prepare yourself ahead of time for what you think could be the worst future is a painful option.

Good people with wide-angle vision are on it.

The response is what has me so down on this whole new arrangement. There was leverage and everyone just let it go, hoping beyond hope that one day they can join the club. The rest of the NCAA should have called their bluff and told them to go and starting this year any game in any sport with a non NCAA member was off the table. The way everyone just rolled over is disheartening to say the least. I can't say this is it for me and college football but if it plays out how I think it will I can see me losing interest. There is no way we can compete when there will be 2 sets of rules. Its going to affect basketball also I don't see how it can't. I mean I am just at a loss on how to take this. I'm not going to jump off a cliff but I can tell you I have no interest in going to a game where we line up basically walk on's against paid all stars. I'm not going to pay to see that and I don't get the feeling that I am alone. I'm not going to say the next step but I think its pretty obvious. You know I'm not even sure that if we by some miracle get in the club that I want to go see the NFL minor leagues either.

(08-09-2014 09:48 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-08-2014 08:45 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  "In a world of haves and have-nots, the American has officially been relegated to college football's version of Triple-A.

After enjoying privileged status throughout the BCS era, the conference formerly known as the Big East watched the clock strike 12 on it after champion UCF shocked Baylor in January's Fiesta Bowl. Goodbye, Power 5. Hello, Group of 5. So long, automatic bid to a lucrative postseason payday. Glad to make your acquaintances, Miami Beach Bowl"

Do you recommend giving up? I say to hell with that.

This was a quote from an article that was posted on the front of the official AAC conference website....... I think I'd have left this one off.

It's OVA. The last train has left the station