Pluto article on the NCAA today

[Captain Kangaroo]

A Few Guthrie Quotes within

[catdaddyp]

Excellent article. About the only thing he’s missing is the Title IX lawsuit that was filed in Oregon a few weeks ago. That could drastically change the landscape as well.

[GP1]

Interesting article. Misses the point of what really needs done. 

 

Football is special and driving revenues for schools. There needs to be one division with one commissioner for P5 schools only. The money will pour in. So much money, G5 schools could get one $4.4 million dollar payday instead of three beat downs to get the same amount. $4.4 million would be a drop in the bucket for the big schools. The G5 schools could then go about rationally organizing themselves into a highly competitive and entertaining division for athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools and country.

[Hilltopper]

I would bet it might look more like professional soccer. P5 and P5 lite. The lesser P5 teams would serve as cannon fodder for the upper P5 programs. Maybe some sort of relagation system for the P5 lite programs to move up and down if they perform well enough. That way the big guys keep all the money. The G5 will become glorified FCS.

[GP1]

1 hour ago, Hilltopper said:

I would bet it might look more like professional soccer. P5 and P5 lite. The lesser P5 teams would serve as cannon fodder for the upper P5 programs. Maybe some sort of relagation system for the P5 lite programs to move up and down if they perform well enough. That way the big guys keep all the money. The G5 will become glorified FCS.

The problem is, G5 is currently neither FCS nor glorified. 

[kreed5120]

Some proposals I've seen reported have had schools allowed to pay up to $30k per scholarship athlete. If you have 200 scholarship athletes, that's $6 million. I know we're all sport fans here, but the NCAA keeps making it more and more expensive to participate. I think it's pretty clear at some point the MAC as a whole will have no choice but to say enough is enough and step down. 

[GP1]

5 hours ago, kreed5120 said:

Some proposals I've seen reported have had schools allowed to pay up to $30k per scholarship athlete. If you have 200 scholarship athletes, that's $6 million. I know we're all sport fans here, but the NCAA keeps making it more and more expensive to participate. I think it's pretty clear at some point the MAC as a whole will have no choice but to say enough is enough and step down. 

Or, they could join the other G5 conferences, set up a football division with one commissioner and leverage their numbers against TV networks and P5 conferences.