Power Conferences on the verge of breaking away from NCAA?

[Heelmatic]

They’ve gone and done it, all right. It took a few years and included a few obstacles, but they’ve taken their ball and decided to play somewhere else.
The Big Threat has become Big Change. All with the NCAA’s blessing.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the Power 5: the birth of the NCAA’s new division. What it looks like and who’s allowed access in the exclusive club is to be determined.
But the same group of conferences who for years have publicly and anonymously threatened to pull away from the NCAA and create their own organization, will now run their own show within college sports’ organizing body.

And whaddya know, the projected start date just so happens to coincide with the new college football postseason that begins in 2014.
“The five of us,” says Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, “have a feeling that when we agree on something, we’re going to be able to achieve it.”
Let me try to explain how significant, how momentous, that statement really is. This is more than just a stipend for players within the Power 5 (see: “the five of us”) conferences, a rallying cry that has become a convenient and socially galvanizing crutch to use as the instrument of change.
This is about completely reshaping how college athletics works. This is about a clear, unmistakable line between those who can afford it and those who can’t.
This is about five conferences and their 65 university presidents creating a new division within the current framework of college sports—and then restructuring legislation (see: rules) to fit their desires without a peep from the rest of the membership.

I don’t know about you, but that looks a whole lot like taking your ball and going home.
Now let those words from Delany—“when we agree on something, we’re going to be able to achieve it”—sink in just a little bit more.
It begins with paying players, because who in their right mind—at this point in the realignment/television contract-driven process—could argue against paying players a stipend? And because the “five of us” will look so magnanimous in finally righting the wrong of decades past (paying players), more significant change will slip right by.
New recruiting rules, new enforcement rules and governance, new financial standards for acceptance for those outside the “five of us.” Then there’s a commissioner of the new division, a position that’s more than just a figurehead for the 300-plus university presidents (see: Emmert) and a position that will oversee and manage every aspect of the process.
Basically, it’s an elite club that controls the entire financial foundation of college sports—and plays by its own rules.
But really, it’s just about playing players.
“The unintended consequences,” says one non-BCS athletic director, “are beyond the pale.”
Such as players who are getting paid playing against those who aren’t, because you don’t really think they’re going to play games against just each other, do you?
Or more booster shenanigans, because if State U. is struggling to come up with enough fluid cash to pay scholarship athletes (that includes meeting Title IX requirements by giving women’s sports an equal stipend pool), it’s either find more cash or say goodbye to the super division.
“This is not a time when trimming around the hedges is going to make very much of a difference,” said Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby.
Instead, they’ll tear them down and start over.
Look, change can be good. It can be revolutionary and reenergizing and can lead to unthinkable heights. Look at what the BCS did for the sport.
But when the American Athletic Conference is added to the new super division, will Tulane president Scott Cowen still be a champion for the little programs that could?
Or will he quietly skulk away once he gets what he wants like the Utah attorney general?
“If you begin trying to put together homogenous groups, somebody gets included and somebody gets left out,” Bowlsby said. “Wherever you draw those lines, if they’re bright lines, you have controversy.”
Only this time, it’s sanctioned by the NCAA.

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...-acc-big-ten-big-12-pac-12-stipend-recruiting


I haven't seen this reported anywhere else, but if its true

 

[Rekkapryde]

It was gonna happen eventually. This charade of amateur status is a joke and we all know it.

 

[nomoreneveragain]

They're gonna open up a can worms, you think paying players a little stipened will be the end of it?

Whats gonna happen when they want more and these money mongering won't budge?

They're probably gonna make these "Student Athletes" sign there lives away

 

[Heelmatic]

They're gonna open up a can worms, you think paying players a little stipened will be the end of it?

Whats gonna happen when they want more and these money mongering won't budge?

They're probably gonna make these "Student Athletes" sign there lives away

It's something I think has to be done, but making everybody happy is gonna be impossible.

 

[Ain't That Something]

 

[Newzz]

My body is ready

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]