🏈 Separating NCAA Division I wealth is coming as haves and have-nots become divided

[BAMANEWSBOT]

NCAA looking at governance model, such as new division or subdivision

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[TerryP]

The haves, meanwhile, will continue to spend because they can negotiate their own lucrative TV deals, thanks to a landmark 1984 Supreme Court decision. They will dictate terms in the football playoff talks because they possess the teams the public wants to see. And they will want NCAA rules that serve their interests, believing there are too many schools playing Division I football as it is.

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[psychojoe]

I think that the end result has to be some sort of new classification. It seems that there are too many schools that want what can be given reduced to what they can afford. I'm sure that they love what Bobby Knight's group said about reducing the number of scholarships given in various sports.

 

[bamaraider]

I think that the end result has to be some sort of new classification. It seems that there are too many schools that want what can be given reduced to what they can afford. I'm sure that they love what Bobby Knight's group said about reducing the number of scholarships given in various sports.

Like UAB?

 

[TerryP]

I think that the end result has to be some sort of new classification. It seems that there are too many schools that want what can be given reduced to what they can afford. I'm sure that they love what Bobby Knight's group said about reducing the number of scholarships given in various sports.

The big question comes in how the other classification handles Title IV funxing issues.

 

[psychojoe]

Like UAB?

Now don't get me (or Terry) started on the UAB topic. :greybiggrin:

Terry, just some off the top of my head figures. UA probably has around 250 athletic scholarships, evenly distributed among men's and women's sports because of Title IX. If the school gave $2k in cost of attendance money to all of them (proportionally for partial scholarships) it would cost us $500k per year to do so. Let all willing to pony up this $500k move to the new classification. I am sure that I am oversimplifying the issue, but it sounds like something most SEC schools could do easily, and the UABs of the world could stay behind.