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IndyTreeFan

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I just saw that the NCAA is having a convention this week in Indy, where they will adopt a new constitution for the governance of college sports. Anyone wanna bet that this will further separate the P6 from the rest of us, and might even be the move to lock us out of the basketball tournament? I just figure nothing good will come out of this...
 

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IndyTreeFan said:
This sounds like exactly what I thought. They’re going to try to take us out of the basketball tournament…

www.si.com

NCAA, college sports and a heated fight for the future - Sports Illustrated

Division I, much like the NCAA as a whole, is fractured. A drastic change to the system may be coming.
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This encapsulates EVERYTHING about the "Power 5"...
Each year, at least a dozen automatic qualifiers take spots that could go to major conference programs who are on the bubble and left out, an issue where “the tension is mounting,” says one Power 5 athletic director. “We are letting anyone into Division I from Division II and all the sudden that school gets a shot at the tournament over an eighth-placed SEC team?”

Should the Tourney start today - that "8th place $EC team is the "mighty" 12-6 | 3-3 Alabama Pink Wave...
 
IndyTreeFan said:
This sounds like exactly what I thought. They’re going to try to take us out of the basketball tournament…

www.si.com

NCAA, college sports and a heated fight for the future - Sports Illustrated

Division I, much like the NCAA as a whole, is fractured. A drastic change to the system may be coming.
www.si.com www.si.com
Click to expand...

Yeah, just like the moronic ADs that handed over the keys in autonomy, of course these guys are bellied back up to the table wanting to eat more.

Not one time was Title IX mentioned in that article. Forcing schools to field non-revenue sports in a capitalistic system is basically ensuring debt load and that schools can't ever get out of their P5 serfdom. What happens if a school doesn't have to spend $10m on fielding low level sports (both on the men's and women's side) but could go "all in" on a sport? There chances for elevation significantly increase.

If they are going to "blow it up" then Title IX better be included.
 
4Q_iu said:
This encapsulates EVERYTHING about the "Power 5"...
Each year, at least a dozen automatic qualifiers take spots that could go to major conference programs who are on the bubble and left out, an issue where “the tension is mounting,” says one Power 5 athletic director. “We are letting anyone into Division I from Division II and all the sudden that school gets a shot at the tournament over an eighth-placed SEC team?”

Should the Tourney start today - that "8th place $EC team is the "mighty" 12-6 | 3-3 Alabama Pink Wave...
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What a bogus statement. Whatever conference that team was ushered into has 1 AQ bid and we all know very few conferences outside of the Top 12 or so leagues get multiple bids, if ever.
 

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Want to talk about broken systems? The RPI/NET rankings are inherently biased because of the way the P5 schools schedule and ensure that all of their teams are locked in to the Top 80 or so spots without winning being of much importance. Then these metrics are judged at the end of the year, by a committee predominantly consisting of P5 membership, where they arbitrarily evaluate if one school should be in the tournament over another.

Exhibit A:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1483849477433839619
 
Jason Svoboda said:
Yeah, just like the moronic ADs that handed over the keys in autonomy, of course these guys are bellied back up to the table wanting to eat more.

Not one time was Title IX mentioned in that article. Forcing schools to field non-revenue sports in a capitalistic system is basically ensuring debt load and that schools can't ever get out of their P5 serfdom. What happens if a school doesn't have to spend $10m on fielding low level sports (both on the men's and women's side) but could go "all in" on a sport? There chances for elevation significantly increase.

If they are going to "blow it up" then Title IX better be included.
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im being dumb but I wonder how Title IX is going to sort people's identity in the future. I mean there might be a football team out there with 85 scholarship women on it.
 
niklz62 said:
im being dumb but I wonder how Title IX is going to sort people's identity in the future. I mean there might be a football team out there with 85 scholarship women on it.
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I think Title IX started out with the right intensions. Personally, I think many of the non-revenue sports should be club sports and not have the pomp and circumstance (sic: expense) of being an official NCAA sponsored sport. So if a school wanted a women's club football team, have at it.
 
The NCAA could've solved this problem a decade ago by capping leagues at 12 schools and making the rules tougher on D2 schools moving up to D1. Heck the Summit League just brought up a D3 school into D1 (St Thomas). Right now leagues are getting too big and as a result the poached leagues are backfilling with D2 schools.

I've been saying it for several years now, but I think MBB will end up being split into 1A and 1AA just like football. Obviously the P5 and the Big East will make the 1A cut. As of now I think the MWC, AAC, and the A10 would be very strong contenders for 1A. Your typical strong basketball leagues like the MVC, WCC, and SOCON will either be the last to make the cut or the top of 1AA. Gonzaga would simply join the MWC if the WCC didn't make the cut.
 
^ Then there's the Sun Belt, MAC, and CUSA question. Those leagues aren't particularly great at basketball, but do they luck their way into 1A basketball because they are 1A (FBS) in football?
 

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IndyTreeFan said:
This sounds like exactly what I thought. They’re going to try to take us out of the basketball tournament…

www.si.com

NCAA, college sports and a heated fight for the future - Sports Illustrated

Division I, much like the NCAA as a whole, is fractured. A drastic change to the system may be coming.
www.si.com www.si.com
Click to expand...
Thanks for posting the article. It's incredibly insightful for a lot of reasons.

It's clear that many changes, and none for the good or betterment of Indiana State University, are coming.
 
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