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https://news.yahoo.com/college-football-...26768.html

Editorial suggesting the first thought shouldn't be expanding the playoff, but earmarking the money for "athlete health, safety and education."

"...The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an independent group on which we serve, recently proposed a new framework, Connecting Athletics Revenues with the Educational Model of College Sports (C.A.R.E. model) that would be a good start towards reform. The model would require that the College Football Playoff earmark money for athlete health, safety and education. And it would mandate much-needed financial transparency by requiring disclosure and would include athletes in independent oversight of the College Football Playoff.

Division I leaders understand that the incentives and spending of more than $3 billion of total shared revenues among FBS schools must be overhauled. That’s why 21 coaches’ associations, representing more than 30 men’s and women’s college sports and more than 84,000 Division I athletes, have already endorsed the C.A.R.E. proposal...."


its a big rant against the escalating coaches salaries. My first thought reading it was that it was politicians ranting against exploited labor since they provide no legal or economic way to control coaches salaries as the NCAA already got slapped down by the courts when they tried to limit asst. coaches salaries. But this is a former Sec. of Education and Division I basketball player along with a former Tennessee football player. Both are on the Knight commission and want the NCAA to have more control.

It just struck me that the end of the NCAA is near when you have these positions that want to tell the P5 what to do that seems such a contrast from what the P5 want. There seems to be a total disconnect between the two worldviews. They're on different planets.
Interesting quandary.

It actually intuitively makes sense to me that the NCAA shouldn't cover the national costs of FBS (whether it's administrative or legal) when it's not overseeing its national championship system. I'm also all in favor of committing more resources to student safety and education, although the numbers thrown out in the column are pretty arbitrary.

However, it's all circular since the P5 and NCAA are all intertwined. Would the NCAA really draw a line in the sand with the P5 when (a) the P5 controls so much of the NCAA already and (b) if the P5 didn't have such control, they could leave and effectively destroy the NCAA entirely? It would be like when the United Nations tries to draw a line in the sand with any permanent member of the UN Security Council - even if the majority of members might disagree with any particular permanent member at any given time, the overall organization knows that it ceases to exist without those specific permanent members.

At the end of the day, we're seeing a broad trend is that we're moving further and further away from centralized control with the NCAA, which makes me believe that what Duncan et. al are arguing for is effectively impossible at this point... and much more likely to go in the opposite direction with the NCAA having less and less control on these issues.
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