FCS, Division I-AAA working group aims to chart path for future

[Jason Svoboda]

Wonder if Clink and/or Angie have been participating in this.

Amid unprecedented disruption in college athletics, Football Championship Subdivision members and Division I-AAA leaders from non-football-playing schools are ramping up discussions in a relatively newly formed working group intended to empower like-minded stakeholders to begin formulating a sustainable path forward.

The working group – whose existence has not previously been reported – was created in late fall as the pace of change in college sports accelerated. Since then – on the heels of the NCAA unveiling its reform proposal and numerous developments in the courts and with the National Labor Relations Board – the frequency of meetings has increased to almost weekly, with its smaller subcommittees conversing daily.

The working group consists of more than 200 leading stakeholders at the FCS and Division I-AAA levels.

FCS, Division I-AAA working group aims to 'chart a path for the future'

FCS and Division I-AAA leaders are ramping up talks in a relatively newly formed working group that aims to 'chart a path for the future.'

www.on3.com

 

[IndyTreeFan]

Wonder if Clink and/or Angie have been participating in this.

FCS, Division I-AAA working group aims to 'chart a path for the future'

FCS and Division I-AAA leaders are ramping up talks in a relatively newly formed working group that aims to 'chart a path for the future.'

www.on3.com

I would certainly hope so.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Part of the reason there is no revenue to share is because schools are mandated to field a certain number of teams for D1 status AND have to adhere to Title IX which essentially forces schools to spend money they don't have so any revenues that some schools may have generated are wiped out subsidizing non-revenue sports.

“There’s no revenue to share, my friend,” Ivey said. “When I’m sharing nothing, it’s still nothing. And at the end of the year, do I get to send everyone a bill for the debt we have?”

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Also, for those not aware, I-AAA is all D1 schools that don't sponsor football.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

Also, for those not aware, I-AAA is all D1 schools that don't sponsor football.

We should be in that. We don't actually have football. We have FINO - Football In Name Only.

 

[4Q_iu]

We should be in that. We don't actually have football. We have FINO - Football In Name Only.

Sorry - can't laugh at the $$$ outlay we have for football w/ the result we receive.

We ABSOLUTELY need to be in the FCS - Div I-AAA working group and be loud and vocal during those meetings

 

[Jason Svoboda]

We should be in that. We don't actually have football. We have FINO - Football In Name Only.

It's coming whether people like it or not -- including people at State.

The court cases happening will force schools into classifying athletes as employees. That will be the end of the football program (and other sports) at Indiana State. This is a tweet I came across by a lawyer I thought was interesting on how things could be divided up:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1755721086493180014

 

[IndyTreeFan]

Lawyers are the ones who ruin everything to start with...

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Lawyers are the ones who ruin everything to start with...

You're not wrong but we're not getting this genie back in the lamp. I'm just trying to figure out how we can keep some semblance of our athletics department at the end of the day when all of the dust settles.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

You're not wrong but we're not getting this genie back in the lamp. I'm just trying to figure out how we can keep some semblance of our athletics department at the end of the day when all of the dust settles.

Oh, I totally agree, this is the world now. Just commenting on a particular group of people who ruin things all the time...

 

[EvilleSycamore]

Lawyers are the ones who ruin everything to start with...

You know what they call a bus load of lawyers going over a cliff??????? A GOOD START!!!!!

 

[4Q_iu]

Lawyers are the ones who ruin everything to start with...

This is the group of lawyers you need to call out...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Bannon_v._NCAA

Not to mention the greedy bastards at EA Sports or the dunces at CLC...

 

[DyedBlue]

We should be in that. We don't actually have football. We have FINO - Football In Name Only.

Go to the weight training room and make that statement out loud. I'd like to witness that but, of course, the members of the football team wouldn't give you the time of day as they would be too busy working.
While it is true that ISU football is not near the top of the MVFC, it does reside roughly in the middle third of FCS football power rankings. These are quality athletes working hard to compete.

 

[EvilleSycamore]

Go to the weight training room and make that statement out loud. I'd like to witness that but, of course, the members of the football team wouldn't give you the time of day as they would be too busy working.
While it is true that ISU football is not near the top of the MVFC, it does reside roughly in the middle third of FCS football power rankings. These are quality athletes working hard to compete.

Ok I am not into arguing with the football bunch anymore, but I gotta question the second to last sentence....... You only won two stinkin games against one of the worst teams in football two years in a row and you are ranked in the upper half of FCS power rankings?????????? I gotta call BS on that.

NO i will not be replying any rebutal as i said i am not interested in arguing with three or four over individuals over this!! But am curious how you came up with that with only beating Western.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

Go to the weight training room and make that statement out loud. I'd like to witness that but, of course, the members of the football team wouldn't give you the time of day as they would be too busy working.
While it is true that ISU football is not near the top of the MVFC, it does reside roughly in the middle third of FCS football power rankings. These are quality athletes working hard to compete.

For those for whom reading comprehension is difficult, I didn't question anyone's work ethic. We know they work hard. But the program they're in doesn't work at all.

 

[Sycamorefan96]

We should be in that.

Yeah, because nothing says "big time" like being classified as "1AAA".

 

[treeman]

After reading about all the team captains and all-conference performers we have recruited in from the Wabash valley, I am officially checked out of ISU football. What a waste

 

[Sycamorefan96]

This article almost reads like smaller schools like ours are preparing for 1AA across the board in revenue sports. 1A can have their rules and 1AA/1AA will have their own separate rules. Will basketball be fully split in the future or will the small poorer D1 schools still receive their automatic bid to the tournament? Only time will tell.

 

[swsycamore]

Sorry - can't laugh at the $$$ outlay we have for football w/ the result we receive.

We ABSOLUTELY need to be in the FCS - Div I-AAA working group and be loud and vocal during those meetings

Oh, here we go again

 

[Jason Svoboda]

This article almost reads like smaller schools like ours are preparing for 1AA across the board in revenue sports. 1A can have their rules and 1AA/1AA will have their own separate rules. Will basketball be fully split in the future or will the small poorer D1 schools still receive their automatic bid to the tournament? Only time will tell.

If USC's athletes win their case, I think FCS football may go extinct. Most FCS schools cannot afford to classify their athletes as employees and give them even more benefits (think taxes, retirement accounts, etc.) unless they can find a way to separate revenue sports from non-revenue sports and leave Title IX opportunity matching at the door off the backs of said revenue sports.