(11-01-2018 10:51 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(11-01-2018 08:52 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-01-2018 08:48 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(10-28-2018 09:04 PM)bullet Wrote:  I think the deal is that Div. III and Div. II continue to get the organization structure funded. So does the left behind Division I. But a lot of the bureaucracy and grants go away. And they probably do drop subsidizing championships on sports with less than a certain number of schools and reduce the amount of subsidy so the lower divisions have to decide how big a championship they want.

Division II and III probably go along. But if they don't, the top group forms its own organization and the rest have nothing.

To borrow a line from Frank.

Think like a university president.

A lot of that NCAA overhead is to pay for side items like research and outreach etc that the presidents like and they know if that money flows into the athletic department it will go to facilities and salaries, if it stays with the NCAA it can fund their interests.

Don't assume that the presidents that matter dislike how the NCAA uses the money that is generated via the value of their athletic departments.

But the people who generate it don't get it.

That's not really an argument that sways most college Presidents. The majority (not all, but a clear majority) of them are commies at heart.

Uhm, Commie elites who have a fat pension, a lovely dacha at the lake, and don't have to compete for a living. If they were just regular commies they damn sure would want a different hierarchy and system.

Most of these guys now just want to run the academic side of things and let the capitalists run the athletic side. I think in the end they will go with the flow of what (pick one: regents, B.O.G. and B.O.T.) members want.