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BIG 10 looks to sweeten pots for recruits and players

billings_poke

billings_poke

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Actually I think this is long overdue and should be a condition for all teams who want to be called an FBS Division 1 school. this could add $2,000 to $5,000 per athlete cost to the University.

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"CHICAGO -- Big Ten officials discussed a proposal that would pay athletes to help cover living expenses on top of their scholarships during the league's spring meetings this week."


Now a part of me thinks this sounds like the possible beginning of trying to reduce the number of FBS schools. That way they get to stay in the NCAA and have fewer mouths to feed the money to. Just keep upping the ante until you seem some schools start to fall out.

Hang on Montana Idaho and Others are on their way back if this type of thing becomes a requirement.
 
I don't think this would be a burden for the auto-bid BCS conferences that much and it doesn't sound like it would be an across-the-board requirement, just something the big-time schools could do. I imagine it would certainly affect recruiting if, say, Washington St was offering a scholarship plus $1800 per year, Boise St was offering a scholly plus $1000 and Idaho was offering just a scholarship. That could really push some recruits to the bigger schools irrespective of how well they fit with a program or how much playing time they thought they would get.
 
I don't agree with it. #1 I'm against any program having a recruiting advantage by being able to pay their athletes. Kind of goes against the idea of amateur athletetics and it adds to the Big 10's already blatant sueriority complex. #2 These kids are already getting their entire education paid for and will never have to worry about paying student loans. Many non-scholarship students will be paying off their loans till retirement. #3 Until these schools actually show some concern of actually educating their athletes and getting them graduated, I really have little faith that they are doing this for the betterment of the student athlete and not for their own benefit.
 
HighLineGRIZ said:
I don't agree with it. #1 I'm against any program having a recruiting advantage by being able to pay their athletes. Kind of goes against the idea of amateur athletetics and it adds to the Big 10's already blatant sueriority complex. #2 These kids are already getting their entire education paid for and will never have to worry about paying student loans. Many non-scholarship students will be paying off their loans till retirement. #3 Until these schools actually show some concern of actually educating their athletes and getting them graduated, I really have little faith that they are doing this for the betterment of the student athlete and not for their own benefit.
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I'm with you, HighLine.
 
The big conferences are already organizing their own television networks. One logically follows another. The NCAA has been trying to separate the haves from the have nots. The motivation behind creating the 1-AA division which became the FCS was to see the mid-major programs move down, but instead got a bunch of wanna be programs moving up. The NCAA doesn't want any more FBS schools. Since it already is a farm system for the NFL, and it is the NCAA's purpose to keep it that way, why not just bring out into the open what has been going on under the table for years?
 
TxGriz said:
The big conferences are already organizing their own television networks. One logically follows another. The NCAA has been trying to separate the haves from the have nots. The motivation behind creating the 1-AA division which became the FCS was to see the mid-major programs move down, but instead got a bunch of wanna be programs moving up. The NCAA doesn't want any more FBS schools. Since it already is a farm system for the NFL, and it is the NCAA's purpose to keep it that way, why not just bring out into the open what has been going on under the table for years?
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I think you make some real good points but I dont believe that this is something the NCAA is behind. The NCAA has pretty much been left out of the BCS/FBS pie and is little more than a figure head to that level of football. I think this is more a case of the big conferences separating themselves from the rest. if this gets the support of the rest of the BCS conferences (which I expect it will) then the NCAA will have little choice but to accept it or let them split off into a new organization which would ruin the NCAA since they would lose 700 million per year in BB tourney revenue. The big conferences hold the keys to the kingdom and will dictate their own terms, the rest just have to live with it.

Being able to give a monthly living stipend may be the best solution to the problem. schools in the non-BCS FBS and the FCS really cant afford to do this. The top athletes in the BCS have been getting these perks for years but the NCAA prohibits it so there is the issue of penalties when the get caught. I think the stipend needs a cap, but the whole idea of the NCAA punishing a team years after the offenders are gone is just plain stupid.
 
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