New Model of FCS football likely coming...

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EIU athletic director responds to House v. NCAA preliminary approval

The proposed House v. NCAA settlement to remodel how college athletes are compensated received preliminary approval on Oct. 7. The settlement, drafted to resolve three antitrust cases against the NCAA, is separated into two parts. The first segment allots $2.78 billion to former athletes who...

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The FCS and non-football schools are still unhappy with the NCAA​

The letter from the OVC board of presidents raised concerns the conference had regarding the collection method proposed by the NCAA. In an office meeting last week, Michael said those concerns are still harbored.

“As much as we’re not in favor of how all that (the payment model for the settlement) came about and what that is, I also don’t think we’re moving forward thinking that’s going to change,” Michael said.

Since the original terms came out in the summer, FCS and non-football playing schools have had their gripes about not having a seat at the negotiation table. On July 21, partial OVC member Houston Christian University filed a motion to intervene in the House v. NCAA lawsuit.

The school argued its financial interests were not being represented when the terms of the settlement were first coming out.

At the time, Michael reckoned this was a move by HCU to get them in negotiation talks.

Pitching a new model​

Michael shared his vision for the model some are working on to keep FCS and non-football Division I schools in Division I programs. He described a landscape where Power Four schools have increased autonomy yet are still considered part Division I alongside the FCS and non-football schools.

“There’s a lot of things that are probably in distress in college athletics,” Michael said. “That’s going to continue to be the case. We’re trying to continue to work on models that somehow keeps everyone under this Division I tent.”

NACDA is the national organization for athletic administrators, like Michael. They have a committee that Michael is co-chairing to develop a new model.

“We’re working on some things,” Michael said. “We’re working with commissioners and we’re working with the NCAA trying to see what [a new] model looks like.”

For about 15 months, Michael said, the commissioners have been working on this proposal.

“We think we’re making progress, but we’re trying to change a model that’s been in place for decades and decades, trying to get people to think a little bit differently, yet still having it centered around student athletes getting an education,” he said.

What the FCS wants​

The committee is looking to create a new model with more independence granted to the Power Four schools.

“If the Power Four schools want to go do what they want to do, [I say] go do it,” Michael said. “But in the FCS world and non-football playing schools, we’re going to manage this in a different way. [The Power Four] might have a lot of different rules than us, so we’re going to try to do something different over here.”

According to Michael, the FCS and non-football playing Division I schools still want the luxuries granted to them because they are at the highest level of college athletics.

“We still want to have access to championships, we still want to have revenue share, we need to have some say in some governance,” Michael said. “But the governance really is, we still want to qualify for the championships and somehow have revenue share. Otherwise, if [the Power Four] wants to have revenue share in terms of individuals, go do it. If you want to pay your players, go do it.”

 

[GrizWin99]

This is worth a listen.

 

[Harm]

That was a good listen.

 

[kemajic]

EIU athletic director responds to House v. NCAA preliminary approval

The proposed House v. NCAA settlement to remodel how college athletes are compensated received preliminary approval on Oct. 7. The settlement, drafted to resolve three antitrust cases against the NCAA, is separated into two parts. The first segment allots $2.78 billion to former athletes who...

www.dailyeasternnews.com

I'm not holding my breath on any good news here for FCS.

 

[EverettGriz]

To paraphrase an old joke, the ncaa is so pissed at the FBS they just took another $300,000 of revenue from East Tennessee State.

 

[griznative24]

So the FCS thinks it needs to and deserves to remain d1? LOL

 

[footballdood]

Maybe I missed something but the biggest change I see are potentially fewer FCS and Power 4 matchups and Power 4 becoming professional football.

I think Arizona has a state law mandating Arizona and ASU play NAU every so often. Other states might have that too but I'm not sure.

The whole idea of FCS is to allow schools to be DI without having too put massive resources into a football program. And as the Power 4 become professional football, FCS (at least the better conferences) and the non professional FBS will have more in common then they do now.

 

[kemajic]

So the FCS thinks it needs to and deserves to remain d1? LOL

With all their leverage....

 

[oldrunner]

Maybe I missed something but the biggest change I see are potentially fewer FCS and Power 4 matchups and Power 4 becoming professional football.

I think Arizona has a state law mandating Arizona and ASU play NAU every so often. Other states might have that too but I'm not sure.

The whole idea of FCS is to allow schools to be DI without having too put massive resources into a football program. And as the Power 4 become professional football, FCS (at least the better conferences) and the non professional FBS will have more in common then they do now.

Yes. I think you have hit the nail on the head. For now, the waters are too muddy, but I feel that there will be a day that the two or three better FCS conferences will be given the choice of staying D1 with a slightly bigger outlay or drop to D11. The existing G/whatever, will be given the same choice, with a smaller outlay of resources. What will emerge is a more workable system for the NCAA. It's probably the only way the NCAA survives.