The Rest of College Football

[entropy]

http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p/50913375/College-footballs-largest-video-board---A-and-M.aspx

LOL... fark's about the aggies biggest video board

[Dr. Strangelove]

Huge turning point in the NCAA tomorrow

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2014/08/06/ncaa-board-of-directors-vote-division-1-reform-autonomy/13674765/

I haven't seen it spelled out specifically, but it's been speculated that autonomy would allow the conferences to manage their championship game however they please. In other words, you could presumably just send the top two teams to the game rather than two division winners. In fact, people are talking as if it could make divisions irrelevant. This would certainly solve a lot of the grumbling about schedules.

[Optimus Prime]

NFL & NBA draft stock will soon get paid of course leaving the other 99% of NCAA athletes SOL.


Aug 6 (Reuters) - Student-athletes in the United States may move a step closer to receiving financial compensation, when a group of university leaders on Thursday are expected to allow the wealthiest collegiate sports programs to leave behind decades-old restrictions and chart a self-governing course.

The embattled National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Board of Directors is scheduled to vote in Indianapolis, as it faces legal and public pressure to share its billions in revenue with athletes.

The vast majority of student-athletes never go on to play professionally, and critics say the NCAA's current scholarship policy short-changes athletes who risk injury and devote many hours to practice, travel and competition.

For the new structure to pass, it must get a majority of yes votes from the NCAA's 18 directors, which comprise college presidents and chancellors. That would give the top five athletic conferences autonomy to shape their own rules and possibly ease regulations on agents, recruiting and pay.

The NCAA, which does not allow students to earn money for their athletic performance, has been sued by former and current athletes in U.S. court demanding a share of profits that includes tens of billions in guaranteed television money.

This year, it settled cases along with video game maker Electronic Arts for using the likenesses of current and former football and men's basketball players in video games.

The NCAA also faces a unionization push by scholarship football players at Northwestern University who want the right to have a say in benefits and compensation.


'VOICE IN THE PROCESS'

Thursday's vote on restructuring rules is likely to greatly affect football, basketball, men's ice hockey and baseball, according to the NCAA.

"It shows a clear commitment to support student-athletes and allow them not only a place at the table but a voice in the process," NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement last month, in an endorsement of the reform.

One of the first items set to be voted on would institute a "cost of attendance" scholarship and other guarantees that would cover living costs for student-athletes that are not currently offered.

Other items to be considered are insurance policies that would protect future earnings and financial assistance for families traveling to sporting events.

Under the proposed regulations, the student-athletes would have a say on new rules along with the 65 universities that comprise the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference.

If approved, the new structure could only be challenged if at least 75 Division I schools request the board to reconsider.

Critics of granting autonomy to the biggest athletic schools say the new structure would create a further divide between the richest athletic departments and smaller-revenue universities, possibly leading to cutting sports programs.

Big-time athletic departments like the University of Texas, University of Michigan, University of Florida and University of Oregon often bring in more than $100 million in annual revenue through ticket sales, merchandising agreements and media rights.

The NCAA divides its schools between three divisions, with Division I split into two sub-categories for football. (Editing by Mary Milliken and David Gregorio)

[entropy]

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/kansas-state-coach-bill-snyder-says-college-athletics-has-sold-out-080614

During a lengthy oratory in which the 74-year-old coach planned to discuss the upcoming season, Snyder argued that TV has assumed too much control of college sports; education has become a second thought; and that the entire endeavor "distorts" the values of young people.

good article

[entropy]

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/497423683741560832/photo/1

most hated team by state

[Dr. Strangelove]

NCAA as we know it is over.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/11328442/judge-rules-ncaa-ed-obannon-antitrust-case

[hack]

Well this won't be the end of it, but fuck the NCAA.

[entropy]

IMO... cheating will be worse for a period of time

[entropy]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24656263/dana-holgorsen-you-lie-in-recruiting-a-bunch

you lie in recruiting... not sure a coach should say that

[entropy]

some of these are harsh... yet funny...

http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthread.php/148742-AskJameis

ask jamie

[UMStan White]

About as smart a PR move as dropping live Thanksgiving turkeys from a helicopter. What could go wrong?

[Optimus Prime]

I suppose frozen turkeys.

[Ghengis Jon]

About as smart a PR move as dropping live Thanksgiving turkeys from a helicopter. What could go wrong?

You saying Brand-On! got his marketing savvy watching WKRP In Cincinnati?

[entropy]

Are the Texas Longhorns about to see the football facilities around campus get a facelift?

Evidently so.

Men's athletic director Steve Patterson told SiriusXM College Sports Nation on Friday that the school plans on spending around $750 million over the next six to eight years on facilities, including the completion of a new volleyball practice facility, a new tennis center, the eventual construction of a new basketball arena and a south end zone project at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium that includes upgrades to the Moncrief Complex.

“We're going to do some things here,” head coach Charlie Strong said during his interview on SiriusXM's Camp Tour stop in Austin. “We're going to get it done here rather soon and it's going to be really nice what we do.”

No talk was made about what specifically will be done, but Patterson noted that the Moncrief Complex is due for some improvement. Virtually every other Big 12 school, most notably Baylor and TCU in recent years as well as Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference, has made facilities upgrades in recent years that have left Texas' looking out of date in some spots.

While the Longhorns could use a boost in the cosmetic look of their facilities, Strong wants to make sure that his program doesn't fall into the trap of being all hat and no cattle.

“I'll tell a kid, 'Hey, we have a nice training room but at night you're not sleeping in that training room,'” Strong said. “You're going to go off to your dorm room or go wherever you go.

“If a young man is coming here for a facility he's coming here for the wrong reason,” he added. “I want him to come here because he loves the University of Texas. I want him to come here because he wants to get an education, a great degree from a great university and that he wants to play for this great university. That's what it's all about.”

In the midst of the college football arms race to build the newest, most up-to-date facilities available, Strong wants to make sure coaches and administrators remember that they're all in the business of developing people first and foremost.

“The one thing we can't do as college coaches is devalue education,” Strong said. “That's what you're getting afraid of because everybody's building bigger, bigger, bigger, but still at the end of the day these young men have to graduate too. You don't always want to make it about facilities. But that's what it's really coming to.”

[Wild Hoss]

Volleyball practice facility? Really?

Its shit like this that makes me take pause in my stance against paying players.