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Post by dex on Jul 15, 2014 8:53:42 GMT -5
digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/ProJo/Here's a piece wherein Sleezy Slive provides his thoughts. SEC hints at big changes ASSOCIATED PRESS HOOVER, Ala. — SEC commissioner Mike Slive’s passion for history was on display Monday during his speech kicking off the league’s annual football season preview event. He quoted Muhammad Ali, former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and former British prime minister Winston Churchill, but Slive’s own words concerning the future of his league and the NCAA may have just as much impact when it comes to the future of college football. “We are not deaf to the din of discontent across collegiate athletics that has dominated the news,” Slive said referring to an offseason that included former athletes facing off with the NCAA during a high-profile trial and conferences clashing with the NCAA over potential rule changes. “The world of intercollegiate athletics is full of potential. I am certain that our efforts today will ensure its future for tomorrow.” During the SEC’s spring meetings in May, Slive threw down the gauntlet by stating if the NCAA didn’t make sweeping governance changes allowing the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC to form their own rules and better compensate athletes, leagues like the SEC may look to break away . Slive reiterated that stance during Monday’s speech, stating the NCAA must change. “As I have said before, if we do not achieve a positive outcome under the existing big tent of Division I, we will need to consider the establishment of a venue with similar conferences and institutions where we can enact the desired changes in the best interests of our student-athletes,” he said. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors are meeting to vote on various rule change proposals in early August, with many of those focused on providing more financial support for athletes. The NCAA is weighing allowing schools to pay athletes stipends to better cover the true cost of attendance and medical care once they leave college. Small conferences with leaner budgets have voted against such moves in the past, but Slive stressed the wealthier leagues had to move forward with the rule changes . Slive said despite the litigation the leagues and NCAA face from former athletes, he still sees it as an exciting time for college athletics and the SEC in particular.
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Post by dex on Jul 17, 2014 10:26:50 GMT -5
Sounds like a mature approach by uconn AD Manuel...unfortunately this rolling stone will gather lots of moss in the next few years
UConn AD: Time to consider stipends
By PAT EATON-ROBB ASSOCIATED PRESS
STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecticut’s athletic director says he opposes the idea of unions for college athletes, yet sees the need to provide students on athletic scholarships with additional money.
Warde Manuel said Tuesday that he supports recent changes that will allow the school to provide unlimited food and snacks to players.
The NCAA adopted those changes this spring, days after UConn guard Shabazz Napier told reporters at the Final Four that he sometimes went to bed hungry because of rules that allowed the school to pay for only three meals a day.
Manuel said that in addition to those changes, he also believes the NCAA should look toward allowing stipends or “laundry money” for other out-of-pocket expenses above tuition, room and board.
“But to me we have to look at it holistically and not just for those in the revenue-producing sports, just because we sell tickets to football and men’s and women’s basketball and hockey,” he said. “I think there needs to be a balance and student-athletes need to have a voice in the process.”
Manuel’s comments come as the NCAA awaits a decision in a lawsuit that that could change the way college sports are regulated. Former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon and 19 other plaintiffs are asking a U.S. District Court judge for an injunction that would allow athletes to sell the rights to their own images in television broadcasts and rebroadcasts.
Manuel declined to comment on whether college athletes should be allowed to profit from sales of video games or jerseys bearing their number. But, he said, he does not think that schools should “own” the rights to an athlete’s likeness “in perpetuity.”
He noted that some schools have stopped selling jerseys with numbers that reflect those of popular players, opting instead to use the last two digits of the year or some other innocuous number.
Manuel, who played football at Michigan, said he also doesn’t want to see players treated as if they were employees of the athletic department.
He worries that unions could lead to that.
“Twenty to 21 hours a day our athletes are students on this campus,” he said. “Three to four hours a day they are athletes on this campus. My argument is the majority of the time they are students here to get an education. We value that. We stress it.”
His own football scholarship, he said, allowed him to get an education his parents otherwise would not have been able to afford. That education, he said, should be the most valuable benefit that comes from being a scholarship athlete.
ps as an aside, those who compare for example Cooley's recruitment with Dunn to Spider's are using a flawed model...one was pre-BCS5 vs the current tumult being caused by the BCS5...ergo, Cooley's magic wand is experiencing a much sterner test..."Go Getem Big Ed"
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Post by dex on Aug 3, 2014 10:27:33 GMT -5
There's an elephant in the room concerning recruiting and has been since Spring.
The BCS 5
Nobody wants to acknowledge it...but they will in time.
It's the reason one should be very leery of comparing Donovan Mitchell's recruitment with that of Kris Dunn.
One's A.D. and the other B.C. just two different era's
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Post by dex on Aug 3, 2014 12:05:31 GMT -5
pcbb1917.com/friarcrystalball/class-of-2015/jarred-reuter/fun game I'm so inept at predicting that I could fit right in my hunch is if you predict BCS 5 every time, you win big by year's end the new reality is upon us ... I can't stress this enough Jarred Reuter 33% (2/6) 6’8 PF Wolfeboro, NH (Brewster Academy) Richard Coren – Gonzaga 7/3/2014 Jeff Ferrucci – Iowa 7/29/2014 FriarTV – Providence 7/27/2014 Steve Hartnett – South Carolina 7/19/2014 Mike Hopkins – n/a Danny James – n/a Kevin San – Boston College 7/2/2014 Chris Torello – Boston College 7/6/2014 247Sports Composite National Class Ranking: 190 ...gotta love friartown... ...i have no idea...
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Post by dex on Aug 7, 2014 8:58:19 GMT -5
The Editor of the Off Topic Board has been all over this issue long before it was fasionable as my dedicated readers well know. While I hope that we get a kid like Spider Mitchell, I have to laugh at those with the notion to compare the recruitment of Kris Dunn with Spider. Apples and Oranges fellow idiots...one is pre-BCS5 and one post BCS5. And you ain't seen nuttin yet, each year they will ratchet up the changes and that will create more and more of a financial and thereby competitive divide between the Haves and Have-Nots. So Sad digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/ProJo/ COLLEGE BASKETBALL Future of game is in NCAA’s court Kevin McNamara The scene sticks in the mind’s eye, especially in light of a collegiate sports model where football drives the bus, the private plane and the players’ Cadillacs, and every other sport really does not matter. It was last January, and the Rhode Island Rams were in Baton Rouge to play Louisiana State University. A few hours before tipoff, the Rams took a quick tour of LSU’s gaudy athletic facilities. There was the weight training center that stretches for city blocks. There was a 10,000-seat baseball park, a 6,000 seat track and field stadium, and enough purple and gold to make your eyes glaze. Just a field goal away from academic buildings sits Tiger Stadium, the pigskin shrine that holds 102,000 fans six or seven times every fall. The coolest draw sat (actually slept) just outside Tiger Stadium in a miniature zoo habitat: Mike The Tiger, Louisiana’s favorite mascot. Once the hoop game began inside Pete Maravich Center, about 5,000 fans settled in to watch the Tigers and the Rams. Truth be told, the locals were still buzzing over an Outback Bowl win over Iowa a few days before. Thanks to a spirited Rhody effort, the locals shuffled away from campus shaking their heads after a 74-70 Ram victory. This scenario has seemingly unfolded like clockwork over the last few basketball seasons. In Ed Cooley’s first season at Providence, the Friars played at South Carolina. The boosters who came along for the trip marveled at the Gamecocks’ athletic facilities during the day and at night cheered their team on to a victory. The home fans walked away miffed, but as long as it wasn’t Steve Spurrier’s troops going down to defeat, who really cares? The question URI, PC and every other school not in a so-called Power Five conference (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC) is worried about these days is this: Are pending changes in the NCAA’s structure going to make it even harder — if not impossible — to enjoy similar basketball success in the future? Can a Butler make a Final Four again? Can a non-power football school like Connecticut keep winning national titles? On Thursday, the NCAA’s Division I board of directors is expected to approve a new governance design crafted largely by the power five schools. The new structure would grant the schools that make the most money greater autonomy to craft new NCAA rules to replace those that treat all 32 Division I conferences relatively evenly. Some of the rules expected to be at the top of the list as early as this fall are paying some athletes several thousand dollars (“the full cost of attendance”) on top of their scholarships, caring for athletes’ injuries after they leave school, allowing agents to provide advice on draft status, paying for family members to attend the Rose Bowl or NCAA Tournament games, paying for athletes to return to school and pursue a diploma, and other “student-athlete welfare” actions that are now forbidden under NCAA rules. “We will begin to focus on student-athlete welfare in ways they will feel as early as next year,” said Michael Drake, president of Ohio State University. Under the current NCAA structure, schools and conferences outside the power five were able to vote down legislation that would challenge the ideals of fairness for all, or financial equality. Those days are gone. After signing TV deals worth billions (mainly for football games), the 65-school cartel will mold the future of college sports the way it sees fit. The members of the Atlantic 10, Big East and other conferences saw this day coming. In truth, it’s a money-filled train they never had a chance to stop. If the power five don’t get their way, they’ve threatened to pack up their helmets and shoulder pads and create a new subset (a Division IV) within the NCAA, or leave the organization altogether. Over the next few years, it will be interesting to note just what may separate the haves from the have-nots. While Michigan may be able to give a $4,000 stipend to all of its scholarship athletes, Providence athletic director Bob Driscoll says his school is committed to “compete for national championships” in men’s and women’s basketball and ice hockey. A school like PC can afford a new $300,000 to $400,000 line item in its budget, thanks mainly to the Fox Sports TV contract that pays Big East schools about $4 million each per year. URI has said it will do what it takes to compete in basketball, but what will the true increase in cost be? No one knows. “We’ll always be able to compete nationally in basketball,” Driscoll said. “We don’t have the football/basketball focus some other schools do. Basketball is the focus at Providence, and I believe a conference like the Big East will always have a seat at the table.” Driscoll said he agrees that some of his student athletes “deserve to be paid a stipend,” and noted that PC already meets needs with meals, academic support and first-class travel. He also praised the school’s vital efforts in athletic fundraising. Money is no issue at schools like LSU and South Carolina. The SEC has a TV deal that pays its 14 schools about $30 million a year each for regular-season football and basketball games. It’s new ESPN-fueled propaganda machine, The SEC Network, comes online next week. The new bowl championship playoffs will split the majority of a $650-million-a-year payout among the power five conferences. Not a dime touches the NCAA’s hands. It all makes for a financial blowout in favor of the power five. Now the group is set to make its own rules, all but daring the rest of Division I to try and follow along. It’s a rapidly changing collegiate sports world, one where it’s becoming more and more difficult for everyone else to keep pace. But as the Rams and the Friars, and basketball schools like Connecticut and Butler have shown on the hardwood in recent years, it is hardly impossible. |
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Post by friar82 on Aug 7, 2014 10:26:35 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Aug 7, 2014 10:46:23 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing that "jewel" Friar82...unfortunately the genie will never be put back in the bottle again.
Donovan Mitchell on a 2 day official to Slick Rick's KinWowom....they probably will discuss SALARY
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Post by friar82 on Aug 7, 2014 12:26:55 GMT -5
Agreed, Dex
In pursuit of $$$ itself, the paper tiger (AKA: NCAA) has caved in to the demands of those who control the "product". The genie is out of the bottle, which is going to create a new strata which openly promotes a different set of rules than the vast majority of institutions can afford. The open hoarding of $$$ by the "few" will bring about the demise of fair and balanced competition.
Coach Snyder is spot on when he suggests that this is not about the student, but rather - the pimps in Athletics and the Networks, who are looking to make $$$ on the backs of kids - most of whom will never play professionally
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Post by dex on Aug 7, 2014 12:32:15 GMT -5
THIS JUST IN: NCAA approves reforms that will give Power Five conferences ability to write their own rule
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Post by dex on Aug 7, 2014 14:13:16 GMT -5
www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/board-adopts-new-division-i-structure“Today’s vote marks a significant step into a brighter future for Division I athletics,” said Nathan Hatch, board chair and Wake Forest University president, who also chaired the steering committee that redesigned the structure. “We hope this decision not only will allow us to focus more intently on the well-being of our student-athletes but also preserve the tradition of Division I as a diverse and inclusive group of schools competing together on college athletics’ biggest stage.”gonna get worse each and every year....thank you espn you mother &&%$#@%^'s a plague on both your houses you rat bastards ...gotta love friartown... ...i have no idea...
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Post by friar82 on Aug 7, 2014 14:40:30 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Aug 7, 2014 14:56:02 GMT -5
Thanks '82...what a mess this will become for college sports...I doubt the HAVE'S will restrain their greed
Q: Will any of this stop the external pressures facing the NCAA?
Not likely. Even some critics of college sports acknowledge the new model seems to be a step in the right direction for the NCAA, although the devil is in the details and legal threats and Congressional scrutiny won't stop.
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued a statement Thursday saying the NCAA's new model may warrant Congressional review from the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is a member.
“The NCAA should be responsible for promoting fair competition among its participating institutions and their student athletes,” Hatch said. “I am concerned that today's actions could create an uneven playing field that may prevent some institutions from being able to compete fairly with other schools that have superior resources to pay for student athletes. I also worry about how this decision will affect a school's Title IX requirements and whether this consolidation of power will restrict competition and warrant antitrust scrutiny.”
Ramogi Huma, executive director of the National College Players Association, said in a statement that autonomy is "not necessarily altruistic." Huma said many of the reforms being discussed could already have been done, such as improving medical coverage and extending scholarships for degree completion. "The autonomy has a lot to do with the fact that players have backed them into a corner as well as the money that the power conferences don't want to share with the other Division I colleges," Huma said.
The battles aren't over. Still, it's a significant day for the NCAA by changing its model.
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Post by dex on Aug 7, 2014 21:20:24 GMT -5
First Casualty
Kevin McNamara @kevinmcnamara33 25s
Why recruiting is crazy. @spidadmitchell commits to Louisville. Cards chased him hard for about a month
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Post by dex on Aug 8, 2014 18:33:08 GMT -5
Jeff Goodman @goodmanespn 1h
NCAA loses O'Bannon hearing today, will lose power w/decision of Big 5 leagues to alter rules earlier in week. May be just a matter of time.
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Post by dex on Aug 8, 2014 19:30:48 GMT -5
David Borges @daveborges 2h
Source tells me Jim Calhoun may do some work for ESPN this season. Calhoun says been offered, nothing finalized.
The 1st step for espn to let uconn into the BCS5?
This should make at least One miserable FTH poster who loves uconn very happy
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