NCAA Proposal Would Cut Football Scholarships to 80

This idea…I hate it.

Nick Saban is doubled over with laughter.

Definitely bad for schools like Texas. Helps the little guy out a bit so fuck that.

if they were smart they would vote in 6-man ball. then when that becomes acceptable, go for 3-on-3. if you’re careful how you do it, you can run two 3-on-3 games simultaneously on a basketball court.

If the vote is FBS schools only, I predict it won’t pass. The AQ conferences make up more than half the 120-school membership (around 70, counting indepedents), and that doesn’t include schools like Boise, Houston and SMU that are about to join AQ leagues.

Either way, we’ll compete fine. It’ll just mean more carnivorism in the Saban Conferences.

This 80 scholarships idea is horrible.

Is the impetus for this Title IX, economics, or just to promote parity by preventing the big boys from loading up?

Either way it sucks.

According to the article, the impetus is economics. Save some of the poorer schools whatever it costs them to fund five football scholarships a year.

It’s only a six percent reduction in scholarships, but it still means that 1 or 2 kids a year who would’ve ended up at Texas are now going to go to some other Big 12 school. That’s why I oppose it.

The real hurt here is to the athletes, not the schools. The 350 or so players who won’t get a scholarship at an AQ school will either walk on, costing them big $, or go to a smaller school. They bump 350 other players, plus the 5 per school from those schools.

Now we have 600 players either walking on or pushed down to lower levels. At the end of the day, you likely have more than 1000 kids either walking on, giving up football, or giving up on college altogether.

Nice move, NCAA. Good to know your priorities are in order. While trumpeting the extra $2000 per year, you conveniently neglect to show where the money is coming from.

Sorry, I should have said it will cost them if they walk on at a school not in the SEC. The “unofficial” scholarships there will more than make up the difference.

Most of the larger schools want to sharpen the line separating the haves and have-nots, not further blur it (see: every Delany/Slive public talking point for the past 3 years). Anything that makes it easier for more schools to jump from FCS to FBS ain’t happening.

Which is why I cannot figure out why the committee threw this idea out there. The committee is headed by the president for Georgia. Wedge issue? Feint? Incompetence?

One effect I foresee is an increase in teams running off non-performers.

Pros have a much smaller roster, but they can move players in and out pretty quickly. My guess is programs will be much less tolerant of dead wood.

The NCAA needs a wide spread house cleaning or reform. I don’t think they have the best interest of anyone besides themselves in mind. There’s a long but great article in the Atlantic regarding the NCAA and their tactics. theatlantic.com/maga

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/

The Shame of College Sports, from The Atlantic.

This is ridiculous. There are a lot of questionable D1 football schools as is. There’s no reason Texas should have to hand-cuff ourselves to help whoever the hell is going to be in the WAC in a few years.

Also the fact that scholarships have to be renewed every year pretty much eliminates any pretense that these kids are “student-athletes”. The whole voluntary/unvoluntary distinction is an absolute joke if players are earning their scholarships on an annual basis based on how they perform on the field. A lot of these kids can’t afford to go to school w/o that scholarship so grades, by necessity, have to take a back-seat.

Colleges and Universities are first and foremost institutions of higher learning. The reason for their existence is to teach and train people to do better in life. When you apply for a decent job they always want to know about your education, not necessarily where you went but rather if you went and if you completed the prescribe courses in a particularly field. If you are going to make a career in academics, politics, or fast track to the executive suites of a Fortune 500 company then the where you matriculated may very well come into play.

I would love to see college football return to the more innocent days when it was not used as a football factory for the NFL or as the largest single fund raiser for the schiool. But, I’m dreaming, not going to happen.

 The whole college football scene is going to get uglier and uglier. Going its current direction it will eventually devour itself. Just since the inception of the BCS we have seen college football regress to a point where if you are not in the SEC you have no real chance of winning a NC. There has been 2 NC that didnot have a SEC team playing and this year we had two SEC teams play for the MNC. Write all we want on the subject pro and con, the SEC and ESPN runs college football, what is good for them will be what will happen in the future.

Personally I would like to see athletic scholarships totally eliminated. Only academic scholarship would be given. But again, I’m a dreamer.

Title IX needs to be eliminated. It is the one killing the small universities. Since men sports bring in the revenue in an unportional amount there should be an unportional distribution say, for example, that women get 50% of the number of scholarships men get.

This stripend is questionable. Who is paying for it? Does it cover ALL sports? Does the player on the rowing team get the same amount as a football player? Smaller schools cannot afford that. NCAA is not solving the problem here. Clear that place out, start over, and increase staff that operates rules violations and compliance.

Schools like Texas will simply run off players who do not perform. Really this is not a good thing for the student athlete.

It will also mean players will become less likely to red shirt. I mean, great fucking idea to help the athlete.

College football is the only social program in this country that works. No telling how many people have enabled themselves with a better opportunity in life just by being able to play the game. 85 is the current max, and if they want to cut it, then it should be optional to the programs who can’t afford it. A program like UT would be better off subsidizing the cash shortfalls of smaller programs just to keep the limit at 85.

These issues will force the NCAA to adopt different rules for the 60 to 80 schools playing major college football or those schools will separate from the NCAA. Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Alabama,tOStU, etc aren’t going to stand by & let Wright State, Toledo, Western Micigan, etc dictate terms that dimenish what they have built. Too much money at stake.

This is so utterly and spectacularly wrong on so many levels it defies description….as far as balancing of incentives and rewards, it’s about as functional as a trainwreck on fire in a toxic waste dump.

Watching the basketball game. Wow! How bad did Barnes miss on his evaluation on Wangemane! What did he ever see in him to warrant a scholarship offer? The guy has actually regressed. I’m not sure McCllellan or Gibbs could play for Missouri either.

Where is the voice for the student athlete in all this? Obviously not the NCAA. Is there anyone out there that is sticking up for what is really in the best interest of these kids?

Chapman too. He was just a total miss in recruiting. JCB scores 34 and we lose by double digits. Some of these are growing pains but some of the mistakes are because of lack of talent.

Football and basket ball teams should be separated from the top 64 colleges, turned into the equivalent of teams in a minor league for the pros, amateur status eliminated, and operated for the profit of the colleges that own the teams. Exit the NCAA, name a commissioner and move on. HS drafts, salary caps and all.

“One effect I foresee is an increase in teams running off non-performers.”

Agree

Hate to say it but I agree with the Nebraska chancellor.

I’m not sure I follow the logic that says a school like UT would make LESS money off of football just because we’d have 5 fewer scholarships to offer. Did we make more money before the 85 schollie limit than we do now? Complaining because this would help smaller/less prominent programs by leveling the playing field is nothing short of childish. Like the Yankees fighting a MLB salary cap. God forbid we’d have to lean a little more on competent coaching, player evaluation and program management instead of the force of our own weight.

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