SEC ponders 'Division IV'
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Always funny what items a news source highlights.
The bold is added in by ESPN and not part of the quote. Now read it this way:
That one little add in taken out of the context of the entire message projects a very different stance, IMHO.
So is the proposed Division IV just going to be a new subdivision within Division I? So we'd then have the FCS, the FBS and the BCS (for lack of a better term), all competing for separate football championships but all other sports still remaining under the same DI umbrella?
I read this article. I believe the SEC has thrown down the gauntlet. The NCAA can deal with this or the Power 5 may well secede and set up another organization.
I am glad the Conference made this about applying more resources for the athletes (e.g. injury insurance, etc.). The financially marginal conferences will not be able to pay for this, but why should this prevent the financially able conferences from doing so?
It was, is and will always be disparity between the haves and have nots. This no different. IMO the NCAA will not go along with this and we will see the power 5 conferences secede and form it's own organization.
I'm trying to imagine how hard it will be for the NCAA to put the screws to a major college program going forward with all the unrest in the ranks. Especially when so many of the violations would resemble the same benefits the universities are insisting on.
I think it was a matter of time and things are starting to take shape quickly. When all the conference realignments occurred the last couple of years I thought it would come down to four 16-team conferences setting the stage for an 8 team playoff. If it winds up being 5 conferences that still will happen within 2 or 3 years IMO. I also think the number of scholarships will go to 100 per team. I strongly agree with TUSKtimes comment about the NCAA enforcement power, or lack of, as well. How this all relates or applies to other college sports I have no idea.
You would need to hire a commissioner type position with disciplinary powers paid for by the big 60 schools
Tidewater, do you think South Carolina will be first to secede?
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I commented above that I thought long ago this would wind up being four 16-team conferences leading to a 8-team playoff, but it appears to be heading to being 5 conferences (The current big 5). The more I think about it, the more I'm not so sure this will wind up being your conventional make-up of conferences. For starters let's say the Big 5 decide to secede and move to the new Division IV (or whatever it's called). Just picking a couple of quick examples - I wonder just how much the Wake Forest's or Kentucky's, etc, etc will want to be a part of that? As many of us believe, the split is going to happen...but I am starting to think it will be a complete remake of the structure of the college football conferences. Curious as to what y'all think?
I'm not Tidewater, but yes this could happen with Fort Sumter in the background.
we're kinda already there. hate to break it to ya......guys like ha-ha and trent richardson and cyrus k and landon collins and amari cooper and etc did NOT come to Bama for the purpose of majoring in civil engineering or pre med or pre law. they came here to pay for CNS......who is widely viewed as the best coach in college football. and, more importantly, viewed as one of the best, if not the best, at helping guys get drafted by the NFL.
"they came here to pay for CNS"
Not sure if that was a spelling error or a Freudian slip. Either way, it works.
The "have-nots" will never "catch up" with the haves, in any way, shape or form; this was admitted to by USA's new Prez, and it goes for all of the other "have-nots". They can never match the tradition or the money the "haves" currently possess; so, the "Robin Hoods" can try and take money from the "haves", but they can never equal their traditions. Ever. (This is mainly football I am speaking of, because it is the rear end of that gorgeous gal we call college athletics - it's the "money-maker".) So they will continually want to hobble the "haves" to give themselves a better shot at more of the "pie".
Sound familiar?
No idea if this whole idea ever grows legs, but on the chance it does, I hope one of the things we do soon after it happens is restore our won/loss record to reflect the actual results on the field and remove all that NCAA mandated 'vacating' and 'forfeiting' of games. How signing a napkin or getting an extra textbook helped us beat Tennessee, or anyone else, is a reach only the boys in Indy could make - while maintaining a straight face.
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