(01-31-2019 01:04 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 12:30 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 12:00 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 11:22 AM)ken d Wrote:  ...IMO, if the NCAA were to decide tomorrow to stop giving out free money for schools just because they want to call themselves DI, a significant number of them would opt to play at a division more suited to their ability and their resources. As Ronald Reagan famously said, if you want to get more of something, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it. The NCAA is subsidizing membership in DI. If they taxed it (by having higher barriers to entry) they would have fewer members. In my view, that would be better for sport.

Or "tax it" by taking away the NCAA Tournament money from funding the NCAA and instead fund it by charging membership dues (so much in dues for D-II schools, a little more for D-I, etc.). This way instead of getting more subsidy at a higher level you get no subsidy and higher dues... but you also get the OPPORTUNITY to EARN more (because NCAA units would be more like 80% of the revenue instead of the current 20% - check my math at "Tracking NCAA Money - 1/29/19").

The NCAA bankrolls over 70 million a year from the tournament. Most of that goes into one of their two endowments which now total right at or a little over 1 Billion in revenues that have been rat-holed away from the D1 membership. There is no reason for the NCAA to sit on a Billion. None. They are a corrupt and ineffectual bureaucracy that is only serving itself. When certain schools in certain sports never get punished for misdeeds it is because those schools earn them revenue.

Make it a dues paying system instead of a squirrel away the revenue system and at least that part of it changes. If they don't care that their top draws are not in the tournament on a given year because they are no longer calculating ad revenues and how much they'll be able to skim the whole thing changes.

Now let me also add that the system of paying tourney creds helps them to skim the interest on the payout money they hold over the years the credits are paid out.

It's a damned racket from the get go with the way things are being handled and the top members are gutless for allowing it to be worked this way and those getting a handout they didn't earn will continue to vote the dole, just like in the real world.

The NCAA is not an independent entity. All decisions about allocation of funds and the rules come from a coalition of university presidents and the system is designed to weight that control to the P5 representatives.

The endowment exists because the power schools wish it to exist. They also made use of it to settle a lawsuit that primarily impacted them.

Not sure why this is such a difficult concept to understand - the P5 has the power and control of the NCAA as it is. They are the ones directing what is going on.