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Autonomy should lead talks in Destin
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Autonomy should lead talks in Destin


May 27, 2014, 10:33 AM

If anyone wants to read

May 27
9:00 AM ET
By Edward Aschoff | ESPN.com
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/print?id=95290

"Yes, with the creation of the Power Five conferences, SEC commissioner Mike Slive and a couple of other conference commissioners have made it a point to be a little more vocal about having autonomy among the five power conferences going forward. The goal is for the country's most powerful conferences to have their own legislative process. That means the SEC, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 would have their own power when it comes to the well-being of student-athletes, such as funding the full cost of scholarships, handling health care issues for student-athletes, redoing transfer rules for student-athletes, providing money to student-athletes' families for travel to sporting events, and decreasing the demands on student-athletes during the season."

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Re: Autonomy should lead talks in Destin


May 27, 2014, 11:12 AM

These are some real slippery slope issues. If/when we start paying "full cost of scholarship", we're just opening up the box with no idea of the long term consequences. Once we cross the line, all we can do is pay more and more.

Yes, college football generates more money than it costs for quite a few schools in power conferences. Today, the football and basketball profits fund non-revenue sports. The question is where is the money to pay athletes in revenue producing sports going to come from? The answer is pretty obvious. It's going to come from non-revenue sports and to a lesser degree it will come from construction projects and coaches' salaries.

I say "to a lesser extent" because there's not that much money to be had in coaches' salaries and facilities will still be a big piece of recruiting.

There's an assumption that there's this huge pile of cash that someone is taking and we just have to stop the greedy ######## from getting their share and give it to the players who earn it. That's simply not true.

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