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Post by tani on Apr 17, 2014 18:55:48 GMT -5
Lol Sorry i dont know him
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Post by derhut on Apr 18, 2014 7:41:19 GMT -5
www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/04/how_oregon_got_big_inside_duck.htmlwe can discuss unions until the cows come home or until they reopen club 17 - for most kids who play either ncaa football [the driver in all of this] or hooops, this issue is as simple as putting food on the table..proper food and enough of it. Football drives the NCAA..no matter what the old big east did or said and no matter what crooks like pitino, calipari, coach k, huggins or the coaches in the little 3 think...the super conferences have facilities - weight rooms, cafeterias, study/computer centers and player lounges, etc that attract the best athletes around. Most D1 athletes would tell you that they dont need a union to "represent" them..they just want enough food $$ to last the month, a few trips home during the year and possible airfare for their parents to attend a few games...growing up in allegany/olean i can recall numerous tales of locals opening up their homes to Brown Indian hoopers during the holidays as the players didnt have the $ to make it home. That is part of what made sbu special for these kids. i agree that the schools and the ncaa have to open up their fat a$$ wallets for the kids..but they dont need to unionize...because if that happens..schools will end up with the right to fire kids...that will open up another $hitstorm of controversy and allow carpetbagging politicians to get involved further in the discussion
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Post by dadster81 on Apr 25, 2014 14:51:14 GMT -5
And here it comes. Excerpt from Yahoo Sports article
"The primary appeasement mechanism now is the restructuring of Division I, a movement that started to become real Thursday when the NCAA Board of Directors endorsed changes in the governance structure. That will allow the 65 most powerful/wealthy athletic departments leeway to create their own rules, the most prominent of which is a full-cost-of-attendance stipend that could enhance the value of an athletic scholarship by several hundred to several thousand dollars per year depending on the school. The side effect of this figures to be a widening of the already considerable gap between the Division I Haves and the Have-Nots, many of which may lack the funds to compensate their athletes more than they currently do. Thus the occasional Cinderella Story (Boise State over Oklahoma in football or Mercer over Duke in hoops) theoretically could become even more rare"
Northwestern vote to unionize is today. Get ready for two seperate D1 basketball programs. And for all you naysayers, remember probably 10 years ago when the NCAA was pushing for rule changes that would require D1 BB programs to have a minimum BB court capacity (all I remember that our Center would not qualify) and a minimum $ spent on BB (we did not qualify). So back to my statement a couple of posts ago - March Madness as we know it will be gone in 5 years.
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Post by fjs64 on May 20, 2014 14:48:19 GMT -5
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