Sprints Believes Jerry Jones Is Saner than the Knight Commission // 06.18.10
by cocknfire on Jun 18, 2025 2:27 AM EDT
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What?!?
The Knight Commission has officially gone 'round the bend.
They want to take a fifth of the BCS and NCAA tournament money and distribute it to schools that have a good APR because it would be the nice thing to do, I guess. They want to bar schools with low APRs from being eligible for the postseason (you just thought vacating past wins was bad; wait until they start doing it for future wins). And for reasons passing all understanding for a report focused on college spending on athletics, they want to bar contracts between coaches and apparel or equipment companies -- agreements that arguably hold down college spending on athletics.
Good work there. Now, please go back to the ivory towers and let us play football.
Jerry Jones denies talking to Arkansas about moving to the Big XII
The way things are worded, he might still want Arkansas in the league but doesn't endorse the Notre Dame nonsense.
You sure you're not going to get in trouble for saying that?
Urban Meyer on the Utah-to-the Pac-10 / 11 / 12 news:
Congratulations to Chris Hill, Kyle Whittingham and the entire Utah athletic department, it is indeed a great day for one of the great U ...
Left unsaid: And never forgot you wouldn't have gotten there without me. (HT: Block U)
Aloha, Trojans
Southern Cal's no-Hawaii-games penalty has been delayed by the NCAA to help Hawaii. Which was the right move.
Maybe they deserve better than losing by 17 to UTEP
Two Texas lawmakers -- stop me if you've heard this before -- are trying to get a school into a major conference. This time, the conference is the Big XII and the team is Houston.
Despite UH's local and statewide prominence, the university does not belong to a strong BCS conference such as the Big 12. The Cougars, the city of Houston, and the state of Texas deserve better.
Houston isn't even the most deserving mid-major in Texas to be in a BCS league.
You'll never guess what Bill Snyder's complaint about the new Big XII is
Note the sarcasm.
Nine is 'nuff
The Mountain West says it won't be expanding. So we appear to be done with this round. Finally.
He's back!
Hey Jenny Slater has returned, run by someone known as "Astronaut Mike Dexter." But maybe you better not go to that exact po--
Tried to warn you.
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Knight Commission has some points
I know it sounds crazy but the Knight Commission has some legitimate points. Over 90 Div-I schools average a 9.9 million dollar deficient in athletics? And only 25 averaging a gain. That is unsustainable. Scholarships should be cut from 85 to 75. In college education should count for something. Instead of postseason maybe more scholarships higher and less scholarships for a low APR. I give the commission more credit than your initial blast.
While football is king and 100,000 don’t show up for a science experiment - some type of balance is good.
by SCPhillyFan on Jun 18, 2025 6:31 AM EDT reply actions
Every scholarship you take away is potentially an opportunity for a college education that is lost. Not everyone who gets a scholarship could pay their way to college.
The real problem with budgets is not scholarship-related. It’s overpaying coaches, lavish facilities building projects, and underfunded stadium/arena construction schemes that do it. Unfortunately, the NCAA is powerless to do anything about those.
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by Year2 on Jun 18, 2025 7:56 AM EDT up reply actions
No, but I see his point
If you added scholarships on a sliding scale based on performance (Political code word alert), you would still be retaining scholarships, and you’d be ensuring that students are more likely to go to schools that actually attempt to follow through on the rules of the “student” athlete. Imagine, if you will, Florida, Georgia and Vanderbilt each having 80 scholarships and Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Tennessee each having 70 due to under performance in the APR. Once the issue was fixed relative to the performance of other schools, things would even out (and with scholarship numbers protected for the individual for the full 4-5 year period for a student invited during a period with +75 scholarships).
There would be a lot of work involved in setting up this system, but once working, it would promote high APR scores for sure.
by blackertai on Jun 18, 2025 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
You can lose scholarships for the APR
That’s one of the potential penalties.
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by cocknfire on Jun 18, 2025 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions
You have to do uber bad to lose scholarships
The APR is based on having a 50 percent graduation rate and the remaining players being eligible to play. There is no minimum GPA for academic eligibility. I can see the argument that you are taking away a possible college education, but if it’s a scholarship not being used for the education, then strip it.
by SCPhillyFan on Jun 18, 2025 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I have to agree with Year2
The problem here is not the number of students going to college. Scholarships are not bad things, and they’re not a major cost-driver. In addition, the Knight Commission wants to get rid of the apparel contracts, which have not a thing to do with athletics department spending (and, as I pointed out, arguably hold the spending down). Not to mention the fact that some people argue the APR hurts schools with smaller athletics budgets.
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by cocknfire on Jun 18, 2025 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions
And so I'm not just using the dreaded "some people"
Here’s just one example: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2010/06/canzano_portland_state_faces_n.html
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by cocknfire on Jun 18, 2025 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I disagree...
First, you (the royal you) complain about hipocracy in the NCAA in that they claim to want to protect academics, but are really all about the benjamins…. and I basically agree. But this commission gives recommendations that would force schools and leagues to put a higher premium on education for the athletes and you cry ‘foul’.
Second, for smaller schools, scholarship money is a large amount of the expense. Especially for D-1 AA (championship subdivision) schools. These schools aren’t paying coaches $5 mil a year and $2.5 mil ($30,000/yr for 85 schollys) in scholarships is a lot.
by Charlestowne on Jun 18, 2025 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't think it would put a higher premium on education
The idea that keeping coaches from having contracts with apparel companies, for example, would help academics is patently absurd. And if you use the APR to divvy up the 20 percent, it’s going to favor large schools and probably go to so many different schools that it wouldn’t be worth it for those large schools to go out of their way to boost APR. I want better emphasis on education, I just think there has to be a better way to do it. And I’m opposed to cutting scholarships unless there’s a reason for it. That’s not emphasizing academics in the least; if anything, it’s hurting students.
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by cocknfire on Jun 18, 2025 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
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