Was just reading an article on USA Today website. Here are a couple highlites from Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany. The article says that a complete breakaway from the NCAA — "is not off the table." presumably quoting Delany. Two paragraphs later Delany says:"We don't want to threaten anybody." Don't you just get a kick out of this? I don't want to threaten anyone but if we don't get our way we're taking our money and run. Wow!
Here's the nuts and bolts: The article says and quotes Delany: '(We) need a "a house or umbrella where we can come in and regulate ourselves." Meanwhile a steering committee is working to refine the concept and to present proposals. The broad outline would include a separate board within the NCAA Division I structure. It would essentially govern the Football Bowl Subdivision and has been likened to the UN's Security Council. The end result would be to give the five power conferences a sort of super majority. Delany called it "disproportionate authority" for the schools which have the most resources and yet are often outvoted on issues by schools with fewer resources.
"We've got a desire to make it happen by consensus," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said.
Disproportionate authority sounds to me like one dollar one vote. There are 351 D1 schools; there are 65 in the power-5. Now, I don't know if they can make it happen by consensus; by majority maybe. This brings me to the Mountain West. It has long been considered just outside the power 5. It seems to me therefore, that the Mountain West member presidents are prime candidates for the Power 5 to entice with some extra money to vote for their proposal. What's going to happen?
Here's the nuts and bolts: The article says and quotes Delany: '(We) need a "a house or umbrella where we can come in and regulate ourselves." Meanwhile a steering committee is working to refine the concept and to present proposals. The broad outline would include a separate board within the NCAA Division I structure. It would essentially govern the Football Bowl Subdivision and has been likened to the UN's Security Council. The end result would be to give the five power conferences a sort of super majority. Delany called it "disproportionate authority" for the schools which have the most resources and yet are often outvoted on issues by schools with fewer resources.
"We've got a desire to make it happen by consensus," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said.
Disproportionate authority sounds to me like one dollar one vote. There are 351 D1 schools; there are 65 in the power-5. Now, I don't know if they can make it happen by consensus; by majority maybe. This brings me to the Mountain West. It has long been considered just outside the power 5. It seems to me therefore, that the Mountain West member presidents are prime candidates for the Power 5 to entice with some extra money to vote for their proposal. What's going to happen?
