https://www.si.com/college/2022/01/2...ive-convention
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How can SI reporting be THIS poor. How do they not know that Division II has athletic scholarships.
"For Division II and III, where there are no athletic scholarships, there will be little if any change, though most of the dissenting voices during the NCAA’s open forum that preceded the full membership vote came from those ranks."
Remember when Emmert didn't know how the FCS Playoffs work? I do.
Saw this last night. The big takeaway I got was that each sport and division, I assume subdivision as well, will be able to tailor their rules instead of having some rules be one size fits all across all sports and divisions. There are differences now, but I expect them to widen. This may also lead to some not so good ones in regard to FCS. Maybe. All depends on how greedy the P5 get.
The new constitution is not really a constitution, it is more like Articles of Confederation, with the NCAA acting primarily as branding.
D2 and D3 will be fine.
The SEC and a few select other P5's will be fine. Lesser P5's will struggle. The G5 will be allowed access to big time football, but at a price very few of them can afford.
I suspect that FCS as we know it will no longer exist. Without a strong NCAA, there is little that will keep the MVFC, WAC, A-Sun, and Big Sky in the same subdivision as the Patriot League, Pioneer League and Ivies. Other conferences may be split as to where to go. The somewhat inclusive playoffs may be replaced with individual "championships" outside of NCAA oversight.
The elephant in the room, however, is Title IX. Outside of Beach Volleyball, very few female athletes will get big NIL deals. Although the schools will all claim to have no power over player NIL deals, the activists and their lawyers will not go quietly.
I wonder how the new subdivision will dictate the price of those money games with FBS programs? I suspect teams who land on that new subdivision will be sadden to learn the price for those money games went down. And if that's the case, what's holding these schools to D1?
Not sure I get your point. But I'm fairly sure the NCAA didn't/doesn't have anything to do with the paydays FCS got for playing an FBS. Pretty sure that is between schools only. Now certainly the FBS teams could be greedy and offer less. Or are you anticipating some new Div I G5/FCS hybrid subdivision with lesser paydays than G5 was used to?
I have to say that there may be a renewed push by P5 to eliminate all FCS games. There already has been in the not too distant past. But I'm not sure it has enough support among the majority of P5 schools to be enacted. This is a top tier of P5 issue, primarily, and even then it is not universally supported. Some state legislatures have at least informally interjected in some cases as to the need for big state schools to help out the smaller in state ones via the occasional game. This is especially true in the SE.
Conferences could legislate for themselves that they won't play FCS games, Pac-12 games, only play each other. Though individual schools might want to pursue their own path on that matter, and that's what schools have generally done - some play FCS schools, other's don't.
One issue the P5 will have with not playing G5/FCS schools is the specter of schools paying a head coach $6 million (or more) per year to go 3-9 or 2-10 with an all-P5 schedule. However, I suspect the breakaway will come sooner rather than later, and that P5 matchups with FCS (and probably most G5) schools will be going away.