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NCAA - Power 5
I am sure we all read that the Power 5 plus Notre Dame are about to be given autonomy to set certain rules including stipends and recruiting rules. Other conferences will be allowed to follow if they want. Will be tough for smaller schools to follow the new rules which will open disparities in talent even more and make it very tough on the non-revenue sports especially on the men's side I'd think.

Vote was apparently 16-2. Interestingly enough, the 2 dissensions came from the Ivy League and the CAA. The Delaware president represented the CAA

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/col.../13716349/
08-08-2014 09:06 AM
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RE: NCAA - Power 5
In looking at this I don't necessarily see this giving those schools any more of a competitive edge. The resources at those schools has always been better than those in the other five conferences. Previously an athlete who was deciding between two schools, one in the Power 5 and one not, would choose playing time over facilities and resources. The choice is still the same. If someone wants a full cost of attendance scholarship and 3 years of riding the bench followed by a year of mop up duty, they can opt for that. Or they can opt for playing time and a chance to prove themselves at one of the schools in the other conferences. If this leads to something else where the Power 5 genuinely separate and create a new division, that is where it get's messy. What will be interesting to see is how many of the non Power 5 conferences try to keep up. Most conferences have at least one or two schools with the ability to keep up with those costs, but getting the whole conference on board may be a different issue. What could end up happening is those schools outside of the Power 5 that feel they can afford it (or want to break the bank to try and afford it) may explore the possibility of getting together so they can try the full cost of attendance thing. That's pretty unlikely, but would create an interesting scenario where you have a 2nd tier band of programs offering full cost of attendance and that would give them a competitive advantage over others outside the Power 5.
08-08-2014 09:34 AM
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While I understand the concern about the Power 5 conferences breaking away for more money, and this being a step towards it, I think the pros of the decision outweigh the cons. Everyone who's spent a semester in college knows that scholarship + room/board does not equal the cost of attendance, which the NCAA is hoping to address here. Medical insurance for athletes who put their bodies on the line for their schools is another no-brainer, as is insurance for potential NBA/NFL players, many of whom can't afford a policy to protect their future earnings against injury. All of these are now open to any D-1 school and their athletes.

Certainly some schools (potentially W&M, I'll be curious to see how that shakes out) won't be able to afford those benefits, but they were already at a financial disadvantage anyways, the better funded programs were winning recruits with new facilities/stadiums/uniforms etc. I don't think this is going to change many recruits' decision from what they would have already done.

Last, the Power 5 is not going anywhere anytime soon and we can thank the NCAA Tournament for it. There aren't enough P5 schools to fill a 68-team bracket (there are 65) and even if they added a few more, you'd be letting everyone in except for the would-be Cinderellas. I'll be the first to admit the Power 5 conferences would do fine without the mid-majors for football, but they'd have to kill the Tournament and college basketball to do it, and not even 100% football schools like 'Bama or Texas would want to do that.
08-08-2014 09:58 PM
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As relates to football it completely changes the picture.

It relegates all other top division conferences to 1A Light, in effect creating the Big Five
as the new and only elite football group.

All the wannabees who recently switched to the former top grouping like ODU, Ga State, UMass find themselves in suddenly lesser conferences and out of the "big-time".

William and Mary will do just fine...we won't pay players but will continue to find true student-athlete football and basketball players like we've always done.

Personally, I find the whole new scenario pathetic and repulsive. This new "Super Five"
and other lesser schools who will pay athletes might as well throw in the fraud of their programs and just hire their athletes with no academics involved at all.
08-09-2014 06:32 AM
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Where it's heading, the P5 and FCS will continue playing meaningful, geographically centered games against their rivals on the weekends - climaxing with a national championship - no big change. The G5 will move the bulk of their games to mid week for needed money and TV exposure and fly themselves around the country playing schools no one in their own backyard knows or cares about.
08-09-2014 07:12 AM
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RE: NCAA - Power 5
(08-09-2014 06:32 AM)BigTribe Wrote:  As relates to football it completely changes the picture.

It relegates all other top division conferences to 1A Light, in effect creating the Big Five
as the new and only elite football group.

All the wannabees who recently switched to the former top grouping like ODU, Ga State, UMass find themselves in suddenly lesser conferences and out of the "big-time".

William and Mary will do just fine...we won't pay players but will continue to find true student-athlete football and basketball players like we've always done.

Personally, I find the whole new scenario pathetic and repulsive. This new "Super Five"
and other lesser schools who will pay athletes might as well throw in the fraud of their programs and just hire their athletes with no academics involved at all.

Big Tribe has got it right [I know, I know, but the law of averages...]. The NCAA is about as useless and corrupt as the United Nations and both should be abolished as both have failed, totally in their designated missions and responsibilities.
08-09-2014 10:07 AM
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