Knight Commission

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H8IAST8

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The Knight Commission seeks to distribute 20% of the BCS bowl payouts to all FBS schools

Distribute 50% of NCAA tournament to schools with 50% of athletes on track to graduate (I'll call this the Calapari or Kentucky rule)

Reduce football scholarships to 75-77 instead of 85

Schools with an APR of 925 or less will be banned from post-season
(If i am reading it right, ISU basketball would have no post-season, Nebraska no golf)
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5297724

Sweeping changes recommended in college sports | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register

The report is available here http://www.knightcommission.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=503&Itemid=166
 
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I'm all for it. Lets bring academics back into the business of college athletics. This is one of those cases where we should all be looking beyond the interests of our own schools in favor of the integrity of college sports. I especially like the idea of knocking down the scholarship numbers a bit...75 sounds good to me...which will prompt a lot of schools to strengthen their walk-on programs.
 
This topic just isn't as sexy as Big Ten expansion.

Jon and Steve, this sounds like a good topic for you guys. Especially Steve.
 
All academics are not the same. UNLV has a major in hospitality management. Let's see the courses for that major. I'm kidding but:
dishwashing 101
organization of convention banquets
how to hire cooks and chefs

You get the idea. Anyway unless the NCAA has consistent core courses for all student athletes these proposal are worthless.
 
I'm gonna disagree that they are useless. Its highly impractical for the NCAA to tell individuals what precise courses to take...but it is reasonable to still uphold academic standards in whatever field an athlete takes up.
 
eyekwah said:
All academics are not the same. UNLV has a major in hospitality management. Let's see the courses for that major. I'm kidding but:
dishwashing 101
organization of convention banquets
how to hire cooks and chefs

You get the idea. Anyway unless the NCAA has consistent core courses for all student athletes these proposal are worthless.
Click to expand...

I bet those hospitality management grads can get some pretty good jobs just a couple of blocks to the west.
 
I think they should reduce the number of signed loi's a school can accept to 20 per year. Raise the total of scholarships to 100 so freshmen can still redshirt. This would eliminate the scholarship churning of SEC schools like Alabama and Auburn. It would also reward schools that keep players in school. Due to attrition, the total number of scholarship players in a program would be around 75 anyway. Reducing the mumber to 20 would also make for more competition.
 
Anyone else notice this apparent contradiction in the ESPN article?

"Instead, the panel wants athletic programs that are often flush with cash to lend a hand to the rest of campus -- particularly amid a historic recession that has led many schools to dramatically increase tuition while firing professors or not admitting otherwise qualified students.... ...And most schools are forced to tap general university funds to balance their athletics budgets."

Skimming off bowl revenue isn't going to help those schools. Perversely, it would force them to dig even deeper into general funds, unless overall spending was reduced. And that won't happen because this plan won't change the competitive arms race among schools.

What's really healthy for both the athletic and academic side is revenue SHARING among conference schools as we have in the Big Ten. A financially healthy athletic department isn't a financial burden on the rest of the school. Unfortunately you can't force conferences to do this (exhibit A - the Big "12")
 
There are big donors for athletic programs and there are big donors for academic programs. If a school's athletic is in the red, should some of the money being donated to the English department be diverted to the athletic department? Isn't that socialism?
 
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