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Note in article the new Academic Requirements, plus:

Comments on Juco's and possible impact on Redshirts. The more interesting topic may be Todd Turner, Vanderbilt AD, and his "Incentives and Disincentives" for schools who must demonstrate progress toward a degree. He and President of Tulane, Scott Cowen, make an interesting pair. Perhaps here is where Myles Brand shows up?

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Let's all hope this can be passed.This could be a huge leveler of the field.
BTW-Did you note that athletes must now have a minimum SAT of 400? Wow- What a hurdle. That is so asinine that there should be no minimum rather than publish a 400 as acceptable for any learning institution. Most of the guys on the short bus can get a 400.

It helps SMU in theory, however, classes "taken toward graduation" hurts SMU - no P.E. or College of Agricultural Economics.

its going to help the schools like Fresno who create jock majors and miraculously graduate non-qualifiers and partial qualifiers. As far as JC transfers-I'm all in favor of NCAA academic reform that applies to ALL schools-I'm just not in favor of SMU creating its own handicaps that do not allow SMU to compete on an even playing field with its competitors.

If it does pass, it will only serve to push the ACC, Big Ten, Big XII, SEC and Pac 10 one step closer to breaking off from the NCAA in 2013.

Don't throw me into that briar spot.

That would be briar "patch".

Let's see if those conferences break away from the NCAA, then the NCAA might say bye-bye for all sports. Then these guys would have to figure out a way to fund a mirror organization. My guess is that member schools will forfeit the right to participate in the NCAA basketball tournament. If they do that they will be losing a ton of money. Remember that tournament draws its huge ratings because it brings some strong non-BCS schools to the table like Louisville, Marquette, Utah, UNLV, Houston, UTEP all former champions. This issue crosses BCS and non-BCS lines. Schools like Fresno and La. Tech in the WAC may vote against it, while Duke and Wake Forest in the ACC might vote for it. Louisville might vote against it in CUSA while Tulane would vote for it. Things get crazy with these academic issues, because none of the schools want to be perceived to be "taking advantage" of their "scholar" athletes.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by EastStang:
<B>Let's see if those conferences break away from the NCAA, then the NCAA might say bye-bye for all sports. Then these guys would have to figure out a way to fund a mirror organization. My guess is that member schools will forfeit the right to participate in the NCAA basketball tournament. If they do that they will be losing a ton of money. Remember that tournament draws its huge ratings because it brings some strong non-BCS schools to the table like Louisville, Marquette, Utah, UNLV, Houston, UTEP all former champions. This issue crosses BCS and non-BCS lines. Schools like Fresno and La. Tech in the WAC may vote against it, while Duke and Wake Forest in the ACC might vote for it. Louisville might vote against it in CUSA while Tulane would vote for it. Things get crazy with these academic issues, because none of the schools want to be perceived to be "taking advantage" of their "scholar" athletes. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

2013 is when the NCAA Tournament contract with CBS ends... that contract accounts for over 92% of the total NCAA revenue, of which the conferences I mentioned collect less than 30%.

If they form their own organization, who do you think CBS will throw the money at?...

...exactly.