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Autonomy For The 5 "Power Conferences"

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Power 5 conferences get what they want in NCAA governance proposal

The NCAA Division I steering committee released updates Friday to its proposal for a new governance structure, and it included a key element Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany had been pushing for: Lower voting thresholds for the five power conferences to pass legislation.

Instead of a two-thirds supermajority, which those two commissioners strongly opposed, the new model outlines two ways autonomous legislation can be passed. One calls for 60% approval and a majority in three of the five conferences; the other is a simple majority if it's supported by four of the five conferences.

"I think that there's good compromise," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany told USA TODAY Sports. "We got some things. We didn't get everything that we asked for, but nobody did. ...

"The most important thing for us was to have a pathway in the autonomy structure to address student-athlete welfare issues, and we got that. I think we also got a reasonable bar for passage. We also got student-athlete engagement."

The Div. I Board of Directors will meet Aug. 7 to vote on that new structure. If it passes, each of the 65 power conference schools will have one voting representative on autonomous issues. Plus, each of the five conferences will have three voting athlete representatives for a total of 80 votes. In other words, athletes will have 18.8% of the voting power on issues that fall within autonomy.


Entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...oposal-autonomy-power-5-conferences/12830313/

NCAA board steps away from brink in autonomy, saves college athletics


The NCAA board of directors may have just saved the NCAA.

There was never anything subtle about the build-up to Friday's announcement on autonomy. A seven-person subcommittee of that board approved a process for the power five conferences, in essence, to govern themselves.

If not the Pac-12, Big 12, ACC, SEC and Big Ten would have separated from the NCAA in some form. That much was clear since autonomy saw the light of day in January. With dread, some called the separation Division IV -- a division within a division. Some have speculated it would eventually mean a clean break from the NCAA.

SEC commissioner Mike Slive all but said as much. So did the Big Ten's Jim Delany. In this governance document from Friday,MAC officials ask the steering committee to adopt autonomy or risk "de facto Division IV."

The threat was real and it was scary. (Colleague Jon Solomon meticulously broke down the concerns here.)

But the board relented, pulled back from college athletics' version of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It relented on a poison pill thrown into the hundreds of pages of documents: Any legislation by the Power 5 would be subject to a super majority -- or two-thirds -- vote.

Wisely, the board settled on a lower threshold.

A super majority was too controlling, too NCAA -- unacceptable to the Power 5. Slive actually said, "Autonomy means autonomy." Like it or not, the idea is for the Power 5 to run their own house. They will become the NCAA, at least at the highest level.

They're going to be the ones push the athlete welfare agenda. They're going to be the ones to clean up transfer rules. They're going to be the ones to guarantee lifetime medical coverage. They're the ones who could even consider freshman ineligibility to purify the whole sordid enterprise.

Most important, they're the ones who are going to implement cost of attendance. By January we should be seeing athletes get paid anywhere from $1,000-$6,000 above their tuition.

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...rom-brink-in-autonomy-saves-college-athletics

Colleges: Ohio State A.D. Gene Smith feels NCAA will OK changes


The NCAA will cast a vote in 20 days that could alter the operations and oversight of college sports’ governing body in favor of revenue-rich schools such as Ohio State.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith is confident that the vote by the Division I board of directors will grant the autonomous power sought by the five wealthiest conferences, including the Big Ten.

“I think the outcome is going to be highly positive,” Smith said. “I think in the end, we’ll be able to do what we want to do for our student-athletes in our types of institutions.”

Entire article: http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/07/18/smith-feels-ncaa-will-ok-changes.html
 
NCAA announces vote on new model to give Power 5 autonomy

After years of consternation and months of debate, the NCAA announced Friday that its board of directors will vote Aug. 7 on a formal proposal to give schools in the highest-profile conferences more influence over the college rules. The proposal also would give athletic directors and student-athletes bigger roles in the legislative process.

"The Division I membership overall and the steering committee in particular worked hard to create a structure that will allow the division to operate more simply and inclusively," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement released Friday. "It shows a clear commitment to support student-athletes and allow them not only a place at the table but a voice in the process."

If three of the five biggest leagues agree they should have autonomy and 12 of the 20 university leaders on the board agree, then one representative from each of the 65 schools and three athletes from each conference would vote on the issue. The major conferences would have until Oct. 1 to come up with their first list of possible topics.

Emmert's support hardly means passage is a slam dunk, though.

In October 2011, he urged the board to adopt a new $2,000 per year stipend to cover the full cost-of-attendance-- money beyond that allowed for tuition, room and board, books and fees. Two months later, it was overridden by the overall membership and has never been brought back for a vote despite Emmert's continued public support.


It could happen again. If the measure passes, schools would have 60 days to sign onto an override measure. If 75 schools joined the movement, the board must consider a rules change. If the total reaches at least 125, the rule would be suspended until the board schedules a vote to reconsider, which is what happened with the stipend.

But this may be different.

School and conference leaders from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC have publicly argued for more than a year that they need more influence. There has been speculation that if they didn't get that voting power, they would break away from the rest of the Division I schools and create their own college division. Though that was never those schools' first choice, they have grown weary of being an increasingly larger target for critics who complain about the amount of revenue college sports generate and the "paltry" portion athletes receive.

Under the new structure, the big boys of college sports would have nearly twice as much voting power and on some issues could implement their own rules, such as the stipend, without the votes of the smaller schools or imposing those rules on other conferences.

"The first item on the agenda would be the full cost of attendance -- that's clear," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said earlier this week. "Then we'll build from there."

How would it work?

-- The NCAA's complicated web of committees and subcommittees would be scrapped for two primary committees: The board of directors, run primarily by university leaders, and a council that is composed mostly of athletic directors -- dictating most of the rules. There would also be three subcommittees --one focused on academics, another on legislation and the last dealing with competition, championships and student-athlete well-being.

-- The new board would be comprised of 24 members, including 20 presidents or chancellors -- with five reps each coming from the major conferences, the other FBS leagues, the FCS schools and non-football playing Division I members. The other four voting members would include the council chair, the head of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and appointees from the Faculty Athletics Representative Association and National Association for Collegiate Woman Administrators.

-- The modified proposal also gives two more faculty athletic reps seats on the council, which will vote on most legislation, for a total of 40 votes. Athletic directors are to account for 60 percent of the seats. The votes would be weighted, giving the major conference reps 37.5 percent of the total vote. The other FBS leagues would have 18.8 percent while FCS and non-football playing Division I schools would account for a total of 37.5 percent. Athletes and faculty reps would each account for 3.1 percent of the vote.

"We will begin to focus on student-athlete welfare in ways they will feel as early as next year," said Ohio State President Michael Drake, a member of the committee that came up with the formal proposal.

Entire article: http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/ncaa-division-1-new-model-autonomy-071814
 
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So what does this mean? Sounds to me like the top 60 have no problems with pay-for-play. Don't know that a $2K a year stipend - on top of the $500 to $1K per month for transportation, laundry and food money they receive, is going to satisfy the athletes. Does that mean that you have to give the same stipend to the ladies on the synchronized swim team as you do the halfback?

I'm glad to see they're willing to pick up the cost of health insurance on those who are injured playing 1-A football, but as the concussion issue goes forward could they end up having to shoulder all or part in the case of someone who also plays NFL?

One thing I'm fairly sure of, they won't be allowed to duck Title IX. That would seem to me to suggest that most sports other than football and basketball are going to go to club level.
 
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I'm glad to see they're willing to pick up the cost of health insurance on those who are injured playing 1-A football, but as the concussion issue goes forward could they end up having to shoulder all or part in the case of someone who also plays NFL?
I think the could come up with something where if you play in the nfl you end up on their plan. If you don't then you will remain on the college plan. If they don't already have it the NFL will soon be providing health insurance for life at the rate of the lawsuits.
 
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Don't know that a $2K a year stipend - on top of the $500 to $1K per month for transportation, laundry and food money they receive, is going to satisfy the athletes.

Does that mean that you have to give the same stipend to the ladies on the synchronized swim team as you do the halfback?


For the Bold: I agree, which is why I have always advocated for some type of pension program. Don't pay the young men/women immediately, hand it to them when they leave the school (with a degree or otherwise). Deferred payment plans prevent the money from being in the hands of the athletes immediately (thus avoiding some forms of corruption) but still assures them they will be paid of their efforts.

For the italicized: You better believe it. Woe be it to the program that hesitates to do so.
 
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God Bless June Jones, LOL...

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-college-football-meaningful-spring-football/

June Jones has a new idea for the have-nots of college football; meaningful spring football
Posted by Kevin McGuire on July 18, 2014, 6:21 PM EDT

SMU head coach June Jones introduced an interesting idea for college football’s programs likely to be left behind in the looming age of autonomy. Rather than continue to play in the shadows of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, Jones suggests the rest of the college football conferences not eligible for the benefits of autonomy take their seasons and play them in the spring. A reach? Yeah, probably. But interesting to even discuss further? Absolutely.
“I think the have-nots should go ahead and move to the spring just like the USFL did,” Jones said in a radio interview, according to The Dallas Morning News. “I think that there’s an opportunity to do a complete other side of that division, and I think that if we don’t think that way as a group of have-nots, we’re going to get left behind.”

Yeah...how'd that work out for the USFL, June?
 
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First rule of business for Ped State - Reinstate Zombie Joe's Wins.

You know it.
Swingin for the fences on this one.
Exactly what I was thinking. If the NCAA doesn't like the reforms and the conferences decide to form their own association then it would seem to me that the slate gets wiped clean and Penn State, USC and Ohio State can immediately reset to pre-sanctions.
 
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