As the NCAA continues to fundamentally change the way it does business, along came this reminder Wednesday from Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany.
The concept of the five biggest conferences forming their own subdivision, “is not off the table,” Delany said at the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum.
While that's not exactly news, it is a reminder of who's in charge.
The NCAA wants to restructure. Essentially it's a move to become less intrusive and allow schools more self-determination. It's either that or those 65 schools in the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Notre Dame are going to take their balls and go home.
To a new division where they wouldn't be leaving the NCAA but they wouldn't be celebrating it either.
“Division 4 concepts are out there ...,” Delany said. “There was a lot of chum in the water about the sustainability of the NCAA.”
It's come to that now. The threats aren't even veiled anymore.
“We need some [NCAA] regulation but it's got to be sensible, it's got to be flexible …,” Delany told a small group of reporters here. “If we do that, I think we can stay together.
“If we can't do that I think we have to say we have not only external threats, we have internal threats. And the internal threats are that we can't find a way to use the NCAA as a [way] to solve our problems.”
The problem is those issues.
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The concept of the five biggest conferences forming their own subdivision, “is not off the table,” Delany said at the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum.
While that's not exactly news, it is a reminder of who's in charge.
The NCAA wants to restructure. Essentially it's a move to become less intrusive and allow schools more self-determination. It's either that or those 65 schools in the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Notre Dame are going to take their balls and go home.
To a new division where they wouldn't be leaving the NCAA but they wouldn't be celebrating it either.
“Division 4 concepts are out there ...,” Delany said. “There was a lot of chum in the water about the sustainability of the NCAA.”
It's come to that now. The threats aren't even veiled anymore.
“We need some [NCAA] regulation but it's got to be sensible, it's got to be flexible …,” Delany told a small group of reporters here. “If we do that, I think we can stay together.
“If we can't do that I think we have to say we have not only external threats, we have internal threats. And the internal threats are that we can't find a way to use the NCAA as a [way] to solve our problems.”
The problem is those issues.
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