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Post by Richie3Jack on May 30, 2013 8:09:08 GMT -5
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Post by cwdlaw223 on May 30, 2013 12:32:48 GMT -5
$20 for the water? That's a consumer protection violation. I hope she sues the school and/or NCAA for trying to charge that much.
The NCAA is out of control and I wouldn't be surprised if the major conferences break off to form a new governing body. The NCAA is no longer a Pig, they're a HOG. They can't even investigate violations properly without tripping over themselves.
If the NCAA screws up the college football playoffs it's over for them. Money talks!
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Post by Richie3Jack on May 30, 2013 16:08:33 GMT -5
I look at the NCAA differently.
I view them as an inept organization that lets big time football programs run roughshod over the entire NCAA.
I think all of this conference reshuffling will become a disaster in 10-15 years.
The only sports that make money are football (if the team makes a bowl game) and basketball. Thus, you can get every program that doesn't make money for a school like Syracuse that will now have more expenses incurred as they will all travel to further away places. And with the opponents being further away, the fans are less likely to travel.
It works great for the SEC because they are making money hand over fist (there is no penalty to withdraw from the SEC) and the schools are in close proximity to each other. But for every other conference it's a completely different story.
Now the SEC will be partnering up with ESPN to form the SEC Network which will be a colossal hit. And it will only empower the SEC in football recruiting which only makes the SEC more powerful. The rest of the conferences will be playing catchup and pay a hefty price in doing so.
The NCAA should have stepped in before this mess got started. They should have created the conferences based on school size, program capability and location. The 'Big East' should have been something like:
Boston College
UMass
Connecticut
Syracuse
U. of Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Villanova
Maryland
Rutgers
West Virginia
Penn State
Temple
And if schools like Villanova couldn't put together a Division I football program, then they would either have to go to D-IAA in everything or lose out on being in a major conference.
And if that broke up the SEC and schools didn't like it, then they don't get to participate in NCAA athletics.
Notre Dame?
I'll let you have your NBC deal, but you have to join the Big 10 in football.
It's why the NFL succeeded from the 80's till now. The league office simply enforced rules that benefited the entire league. From small market teams like Pittsburgh to big market teams like the Giants. From protecting the players interest to the owners interest (sadly, that's changing with Goodell in charge).
The NCAA does not protect anybody. You can't tell me that all that travel with the conference reshuffling does any good for an athlete's academics. Yet, they just allowed it to happen without making a peep.
3JACK
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Post by cwdlaw223 on May 30, 2013 20:40:33 GMT -5
The NCAA can't stop the reshuffling because they could run afoul of anti-trust laws. Plus, the schools never gave the NCAA such power to determine school alignment.
Legislation is going to be introduced shortly at the federal level to reign them in.
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Post by cwdlaw223 on May 30, 2013 20:41:38 GMT -5
Joe Paterno wanted your Big East back in the 80s and nobody took him up on it. Made perfect sense.
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Post by Richie3Jack on May 30, 2013 22:14:39 GMT -5
Then when the Big East went to football...Paterno didn't want to be in the Big East and opted for the Big 10.
3JACK
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Post by cwdlaw223 on May 31, 2013 4:34:29 GMT -5
Because he was pissed at them for rebuking him years earlier and the admin saw massive improvement for other sports. The move to the Big 10 helped non-football sports way more than football at the time the move occurred. I was there at the time and saw it first hand. PSU was either lucky, smart or a combination of the two. Great move for them to the Big 10.
You either get with a super-conference or become second tier. Might not be fair, but that's life for colleges right now.
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