Don't Hold Your Breath...but

[billybud]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2015/01/11/ncaa-white-house-president-Obama/21595607/

 

[billybud]

A meeting including Obama administration officials, NCAA executives and college athletics directors is scheduled to occur at the White House this week, according to three people with direct knowledge of the meeting.

The people spoke on the condition of the anonymity because the meeting had not previously been publicized. According to those people, the meeting is expected to precede the announcement of a so-called "Coalition to Save College Sports" spearheaded by the 10 conference commissioners in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

 

[huskyniner]

If Obama gets us into a P5 conference, I will personally carve his profile onto Mount Rushmore with my bare hands.

 

[Fishy]

The agenda involves photo ops and make-believe resolve.

It doesn't involve realignment.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Dooley]

If Obama gets us into a P5 conference, I will personally carve his profile onto Mount Rushmore with my bare hands.

Hey, you never know. We have built up quite a personal relationship with Obama from winning so many national championships with him in office.

 

[CL82]

The agenda involves photo ops and make-believe resolve.

It doesn't involve realignment.

Oh Yeah? You aren't the boss of me!"

 

[CL82]

If Obama gets us into a P5 conference, I will personally carve his profile onto Mount Rushmore with my bare hands.

 

[itgoeslike]

"AD's and university presidents are very much of a mind that (creating a commission) is the right thing to do except for (those at) the few schools that control a substantial amount of the revenue" generated by college sports, Moran said.

 

[Stainmaster]

If Obama gets us into a P5 conference, I will personally carve his profile onto Mount Rushmore with my bare hands.

Judging from what I read on the cesspool, you'd get no help from anyone else here...

 

[Kolumbo]

Schools like UAB could likely drop football and scholarships while Obama is looking to give free college education. That's gotta be getting quite a bit of attention.

 

[billybud]

Since television pays the way...I say that, ultimately, we must force Americans to sit down and watch teams and games that they don't want to watch...put monitors on every TV and device. Require watching Tulane play Rice and FAU play Wofford.

Or just make the popular teams support those teams who folks don't care to watch. Socialism at its best. Just share.

Me? Oh heck...let's go with the trickle down theory since we know that works so well.

It is an American problem. The rich are pulling away, the middle is decaying, and the have nots are having even less.

Solve football and you solve America's social and economic problems.

 

[UConn9604]

Judging from what I read on the cesspool, you'd get no help from anyone else here...

I'm no fan of the President but I'd carve his bust into Mount Everest with a spork from Dairy Queen if he somehow got us into the ACC or the Big Ten.

 

[auggie22]

Since television pays the way...I say that, ultimately, we must force Americans to sit down and watch teams and games that they don't want to watch...put monitors on every TV and device. Require watching Tulane play Rice and FAU play Wofford.

Or just make the popular teams support those teams who folks don't care to watch. Socialism at its best. Just share.

Me? Oh heck...let's go with the trickle down theory since we know that works so well.

It is an American problem. The rich are pulling away, the middle is decaying, and the have nots are having even less.

Solve football and you solve America's social and economic problems.

Maybe they force all universities to admit questionable characters so that they have high profile cases of terrorizing community and student body. Then everyone will tune in to root against them. Big ratings.

 

[Fishy]

Maybe they force all universities to admit questionable characters so that they have high profile cases of terrorizing community and student body. Then everyone will tune in to root against them. Big ratings.

And convince every local police department to simply suspend normal practices to help keep those players out of court and in (giggle) class.

 

[huskypantz]

The agenda involves photo ops and make-believe resolve.

It doesn't involve realignment.

UConn gets a photo op with the president almost every year. Should have that one covered already.

 

[Kolumbo]

We like to think of it as the President getting a photo-op with UCONN almost every year.

 

[businesslawyer]

Since television pays the way...I say that, ultimately, we must force Americans to sit down and watch teams and games that they don't want to watch...put monitors on every TV and device. Require watching Tulane play Rice and FAU play Wofford.

Or just make the popular teams support those teams who folks don't care to watch. Socialism at its best. Just share.

Me? Oh heck...let's go with the trickle down theory since we know that works so well.

It is an American problem. The rich are pulling away, the middle is decaying, and the have nots are having even less.

Solve football and you solve America's social and economic problems.

LMFAO. Football TV revenue? TAke away federla government support for student loans and colleges universities start folding up.

Do I expect this to effect anything? No. But to think that football TV revenue is even important to universities when compared to federal grants and student loan guaranties is idiotic.

 

[billybud]

LOL...throwing up straw men to try to call some one idiotic....

The importance of TV money is idiotic to ignore....

Universities are about education...university sports and conference sports are not.....

Ever ponder about why coaches like Fisher, Myer, Strong, Saban make upwards of $5 million a year....and their University Presidents' salary in contrast?

There is a divide between athletics and education..and has been for about 30 years.

Basketball and football players are not recruited to be students and their academic prowess is mostly an afterthought.

 

[Marty Jackson]

Since television pays the way...I say that, ultimately, we must force Americans to sit down and watch teams and games that they don't want to watch...put monitors on every TV and device. Require watching Tulane play Rice and FAU play Wofford.

Or just make the popular teams support those teams who folks don't care to watch. Socialism at its best. Just share.

Me? Oh heck...let's go with the trickle down theory since we know that works so well.

It is an American problem. The rich are pulling away, the middle is decaying, and the have nots are having even less.

Solve football and you solve America's social and economic problems.

as long as Uconn is kept in the cold, nothing you say can prove this is an open market.

 

[billybud]

I do expect that the NCAA will continue to pursue minimal APR and graduation requirements....

 

[billybud]

Really...it isn't about money.

Can't be.

Not when 82% of schools must subsidize their football budgets....Even many big time P5 schools.

The fact is, that even with money rolling in, it costs more to foot a football team then the revenue produced (in all but the very top tier of programs).

There is a lot more going on...it isn't about money...really.

 

[Marty Jackson]

LOL...throwing up straw men to try to call some one idiotic....

The importance of TV money is idiotic to ignore....

Universities are about education...university sports and conference sports are not.....

Ever ponder about why coaches like Fisher, Myer, Strong, Saban make upwards of $5 million a year....and their University Presidents' salary in contrast?

There is a divide between athletics and education..and has been for about 30 years.

Basketball and football players are not recruited to be students and their academic prowess is mostly an afterthought.

Isn't that the point BillyBud? To bring back college athletics to the students. if your point were correct and there were an accepted break between colleges and their athletics, it would take one nano-second for the player to seek compensation, thereby destroying the current college model.
you saw how quickly the schools acted at the latest threat of paying players?

 

[billybud]

And a funny thing is that, at least here in the southland, the vast majority of a program's football fans did not attend the university.

The program fans are more akin to NFL fans...they follow and identify with a university for sports. Academics? Huh?

Even the guy at the little auto shop in Opelika, putting brake pads on the 1970's Olds Vistacruiser, is a huge Auburn fan.

Over half of the season ticket holders at a typical college program did not attend the school.


The universities run an entertainment business on the side for the populace.

 

[billybud]

Here is where it gets bleak....

It’s true that a recent study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Tech demonstrates that there’s a kind of cyclical relationship in which major success (not just a 7-5 season) corresponds to a bump in enrollment and, consequently, a bump in ticket revenue the following year. Yet in order for universities to feel this bump, their football team had to finish in the AP Top 20—that is, only 16% of the FBS schools.

What’s more, this bump is hardly noticeable in smaller schools outside the FBS that have successful seasons. Instead, it’s confined to a relatively static coterie of the NCAA Division 1 “football” universities. Only a few schools see this bump each year, while the vast majority will go years—even decades—with unsuccessful seasons. That translates into years upon years of unprofitable athletic expenditures, requiring money from elsewhere in the university’s budget to subsidize football. (If that’s the picture among the top-tier teams, the picture outside NCAA Division 1 schools is not just muddy—it’s outright bleak. It’s quite rare for teams outside the FBS to be profitable, and they are virtually never consistently profitable.)