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re: NCAA Votes to Restructure!!
Posted on 4/24/14 at 3:45 pm to GoBigOrange86
Posted on 4/24/14 at 3:45 pm to GoBigOrange86
quote:Looks like their adding some luxury seats for the "Big 5" right next to the railing. Trying to make 'em comfortable enough not to want to take a jump.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, I see.
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Posted on 4/24/14 at 4:04 pm to RT1941
Well ... listen. IMHO, and I've been watching the NCAA screw-up for the better part of the past five decades, no one wants to totally break-away from the NCAA. Groups have to have rules and the rules have to be enforced by a governing body, that's the way we do business in the United States. Someone has to enforce the laws.
With that said, the problem has been inconsistent enforcement policies and corrupt governing practices. All of that before we ever get into the issue of NCAA greed.
Has it been an institutional problem or a governing body problem? Probably a lot of both.
The Big 4, plus the attachment that is the ACC, have all the power. But, we have to remember that University Presidents and even ADs, to a lesser extent, are political beings by nature. And we also have to accept the fact that University Presidents, are by nature of their positions, someone socialist leaning.
So University Presidents are going to believe in big government, total control and, at least to some extent, sharing and redistributing the wealth. It's how socialists think and nothing is going to change that fact of their collective mindsets, pardon the pun.
The Big 5 conferences, and their Presidents, do not want to come-across as greedy, so they are not going to completely leave-out, or omit, taking care of the lesser conferences for fear of being seen as elitists who care nothing about the middle and lower class conferences. Do they desire more autonomy? Sure they do, that's all part of their power play, but they are doing it in such a way as to remain part of the overall "academics first, sports second" mentality that is SUPPOSED TO BE what the NCAA is all about.
IMHO, the most interesting aspect of all of this is going to be watching to see what teeth, if any, are given to the Big 5 conferences to enforce the rules when the laws are broken. And if these enforcement policies are doled-out with any consistency.
Someone will always break the laws.
The little gimme stuff, the meals and the other stuff ... that's all just a smoke screen for what is really taking place here.
With that said, the problem has been inconsistent enforcement policies and corrupt governing practices. All of that before we ever get into the issue of NCAA greed.
Has it been an institutional problem or a governing body problem? Probably a lot of both.
The Big 4, plus the attachment that is the ACC, have all the power. But, we have to remember that University Presidents and even ADs, to a lesser extent, are political beings by nature. And we also have to accept the fact that University Presidents, are by nature of their positions, someone socialist leaning.
So University Presidents are going to believe in big government, total control and, at least to some extent, sharing and redistributing the wealth. It's how socialists think and nothing is going to change that fact of their collective mindsets, pardon the pun.
The Big 5 conferences, and their Presidents, do not want to come-across as greedy, so they are not going to completely leave-out, or omit, taking care of the lesser conferences for fear of being seen as elitists who care nothing about the middle and lower class conferences. Do they desire more autonomy? Sure they do, that's all part of their power play, but they are doing it in such a way as to remain part of the overall "academics first, sports second" mentality that is SUPPOSED TO BE what the NCAA is all about.
IMHO, the most interesting aspect of all of this is going to be watching to see what teeth, if any, are given to the Big 5 conferences to enforce the rules when the laws are broken. And if these enforcement policies are doled-out with any consistency.
Someone will always break the laws.
The little gimme stuff, the meals and the other stuff ... that's all just a smoke screen for what is really taking place here.
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