Transformation Committee Report - Expanding tournament, changing revenue distribution, more

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Jason Svoboda

Jason Svoboda

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The DI Transformation Committee has delivered its wide-ranging final report to the DI Board of Directors ahead of next week's NCAA Convention. On the topic of "Elevating support for student-athletes' mental, physical, and academic well-being," the committee's extensive recommendations include requiring a minimum of two years of medical coverage following graduation or completing one's athletic experience for athletic-related injuries, a requirement for a "direct pathway for full-time clinical services of a licensed mental health professional exclusively dedicated to serving student-athletes," providing 10 years of graduation completion funds for full scholarship student-athletes, a new DI governance structure with greater student-athlete participation and more. Related to enhancing the championship experience, the committee is recommending to "Accommodate access for 25% of active Division I members in good standing in team sports sponsored by more than 200 schools," and alter the DI revenue distribution model to "reflect contemporary Division I values and account for athletic performance in more sports than men’s basketball," among other recommendations. Finally on "Building a faster, fairer, and more equitable Division I," the committee is recommending the BoD be the highest governing body in the NCAA and consider revising its composition while maintaining its size, and eliminate the volunteer coach designation and alter official and unofficial visits and much more.

 

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Can't wait for the NCAA to allow 401ks and pensions to "help even the playing field"
 
Why be hypercritical? There was a lot of thought and compromise that went into the product. The members are highly qualified and represent a broad cross-section of current D1 members and conferences. The strong did their best to tailor the document to adance its own interests and the weak did its best to defend what little territory it controls. For sure, from some perspective, things 'will go wrong' as it is a vast, varied matrix of institutions and some will fare badly.

My biggest concern is that almost everything in the proposal is a cost increase for D1 members and that new screenings are being put into place to confirm that appropriate piles of money are being spent by D1 institutions to remain qualified D1 members. Such terms as "enhancing the travel experience" of student athletes are left undefined but what if that means to be D1 you must fly all of your teams on a charter to any event more than 200 miles from your institution?

If the enhanced revenue distribution proposals are too limited and the costs imposed are too high, this will effectively trim D1 membership.

Where conferences live the MVC fall on that spectrum of cost vs revenue I have no idea, but there is no doubt that this legislation will dramatically increase the cost side.
 
Give me a break. The NCAA is totally controlled by the P5, thanks to a bunch of non-P5 AD's voting that power to them (because most of those AD's want to be a P5 AD one day, so they sold out their own). The P5 can do anything they want, and I guarantee you that any changes made will be in the furtherance of their goal of pushing anyone that is not P5 out of D-I. The only thoughtfulness that went into this product was the best way to make sure that the only schools that can thrive in the "new" NCAA belong to those conferences. And the P-not-the-Big-Ten-or-SEC schools had better get ready, because those two are about to become the P2, and they will cannibalize the rest of the P5.

We're just a few small moves away from non-P5 conferences being locked out of the NCAA tournament. NIT, here we come...
 
I think the NCAA should just go ahead and make a "Power Division". Any school that can demonstrate that they can run their entire athletic department using TV Revenue, ticket sales, donations, etc (in other words, without one penny of student fees) would be eligible. The big boys could then have all of their minor league nonsense they want, while the rest of us could still have true Division 1 athletics.
 

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IndyTreeFan said:
Give me a break. The NCAA is totally controlled by the P5, thanks to a bunch of non-P5 AD's voting that power to them (because most of those AD's want to be a P5 AD one day, so they sold out their own). The P5 can do anything they want, and I guarantee you that any changes made will be in the furtherance of their goal of pushing anyone that is not P5 out of D-I. The only thoughtfulness that went into this product was the best way to make sure that the only schools that can thrive in the "new" NCAA belong to those conferences. And the P-not-the-Big-Ten-or-SEC schools had better get ready, because those two are about to become the P2, and they will cannibalize the rest of the P5.

We're just a few small moves away from non-P5 conferences being locked out of the NCAA tournament. NIT, here we come...
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Give it about 10 years, but that is exactly what is going to happen. Once Oregon, Washington, Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, and Notre Dame are all in either the B1G or SEC, it's all over for everyone else. The ACC, XII, and PAC are already going to have a hard time keeping up with the B1G and SEC money as it is. Only thing keeping the ACC together right now is their GOR.
 
I'd like them to fix the one-and-done problem, but I don't think they can legally. Of course the NCAA elites and NBA fans love it. They think it produces a better "product." They don't give a rat's ass about equity for all teams.
 
TL;DR: Belmont is going to spend as much as they can in basketball.


Belmont AD Corley reacts to the Transformation Committee’s report: “A lot of those things in that report I feel like Belmont’s really good at. We really go out of our way to give them the academic support they need, if they need mental health counseling, those types of things that are a big part of this report. … Now there are certain things in there that clearly are going to change the dynamics for a lot of us, and there’s still going to be a lot of work that comes due,” such as the potential expansion of the MBB tournament. “The big push in a lot of this is decentralizing decision-making at a level, so it’s going to be incumbent upon conferences, it’s going to be incumbent upon schools to decide how they’re going to allocate their resources in this new era. But overall, there’s nothing in there” that will “make it tough for Belmont to adapt.”
 
Belmont strikes me as a school working their way to the A10. They have a nice size enrollment for a private school, in a great market both for eyeballs and for fun, real nice arena that fits them well, a star studded alumni base with their country music, and 20+ years of very good basketball. Vanderbilt next door holds them back but it isn't the worst P5 to have to deal with. I feel like they are a Sweet Sixteen away from getting the call from the A10, but it is getting awfully crowded in that conference. I wonder how Loyola is enjoying it. I saw on their message board about how proud they were to be in the conference as they were watching VCU @ Dayton, I wonder if they feel the same way when tuning into Fordham @ LaSalle...
 
treeman said:
Belmont strikes me as a school working their way to the A10. They have a nice size enrollment for a private school, in a great market both for eyeballs and for fun, real nice arena that fits them well, a star studded alumni base with their country music, and 20+ years of very good basketball. Vanderbilt next door holds them back but it isn't the worst P5 to have to deal with. I feel like they are a Sweet Sixteen away from getting the call from the A10, but it is getting awfully crowded in that conference. I wonder how Loyola is enjoying it. I saw on their message board about how proud they were to be in the conference as they were watching VCU @ Dayton, I wonder if they feel the same way when tuning into Fordham @ LaSalle...
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I feel the exact same way. Also if you look at a map, Nashville is roughly halfway between St Louis and Davidson (just N of Charlotte, NC), so Belmont would be an excellent geographic fit if the A10 wanted to expand to 16.
 

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