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How Greedy will the Power 5 be?

Fuster

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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?
 
Fuster said:
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?

We were discussing this below. Remember, this is mainly about football. Thus, there are only 120 FBS teams (I think) meaning they would have the majority of FBS teams. I don't think it will take much for them to solicit votes from the other 200+ as long as the status quo is promised for sports like bball.

That leaves the MWC et al. (or Gang of 5). This is setting up exactly as 1978-1980 when the first split occurred. All they have to do is create a new division with a set of requirements to be in that division (like pay athletes). The cost would be too great for the Gang of 5 schools, so they would remain in their current division. The big dogs will be in the new division.

Nothing else really changes for the other NCAA sports except the big dogs will have an even bigger recruiting advantage because they pay athletes. The writing is on the wall and stage is set. I wonder if the Power 5 will become the Power 4 with each representative champ heading to their playoff?
 
So basically the BCS regulating how much money a school can pay a student. I hope it all blows up in their face.
 
"We were discussing this below."
I see it now. Thank you.
Administrator, if you want to chuck this thread, fine with me.
 

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