Group of 5 letter

[The Real SamC]

https://sports.yahoo.com/with-budgets-tightening-will-more-college-sports-be-cut-204423901.html

Joint letter from ALL five Group of Five conferences (including the one that claims not to be a member). Asks NCAA for:

- Reduction in number of sports (currently 16) a school must have to be I-A. (IMHO, put "men's" between "of" and "sports" here, Title IX ain't a NCAA rule, its the government and it ain't going anywhere.)

- Waiving football attendance requirements (IMHO, no issue, we all know that lots of places, including most all of the MAC, make up these numbers out of whole cloth anyway)

- Shortening the seasons for non-revenue sports.

- Reduction in scheduling requirements to be a "conference". (As I understand this, this is a travel savings deal. For example CUSA might sponsor soccer, but individual teams might play less conference games, and mostly just play local teams and then meet in a conference tournament).

- Reduction of the number of scholarships in non-revenue sports. (Again, put "men's" between "in" and "non-revenue", Title IX.)

BTW Old Dominion just dropped wrestling, and Cincinnati just dropped the sport of the next generation, four generations and counting, men's soccer. (Both are still over the 16 sport minimum).

 

[RhinoD]

This is a snowball that is rolling downhill for sure... Imagine the fallout if football (the sport that pays for most of the other sports) isnt played this fall. The NCAA as we know it would implode.

 

[herdfan429]

This is a snowball that is rolling downhill for sure... Imagine the fallout if football (the sport that pays for most of the other sports) isnt played this fall. The NCAA as we know it would implode.

The ncaa will be fine. Schools on the other hand will not

 

[herdalicious]

What will be interesting here is to see how the NCAA reacts. When P5 conferences have asked for things recently, the NCAA has been forced to capitulate simply as a way of remaining relevant. Will they bend over backwards for smaller schools that don't generate revenue for them?

I think there are some (many?) that would rather see the G5 schools drop down to FCS or drop out of DI altogether. These waivers may come with some clawbacks and changes to the arrangement for G5.

 

[GreenDuke]

I feel like some don’t really know what the NCAA is and what it’s function entails.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

The NCAA’s big money maker is the NCAA tournament. The large football schools would likely survive just because of their donor bases; but leagues like the AAC and others who rely heavily on media/TV package money would be the ones to suffer the greatest. Jmo.

 

[i am herdman]

The NCAA’s big money maker is the NCAA tournament. The large football schools would likely survive just because of their donor bases; but leagues like the AAC and others who rely heavily on media/TV package money would be the ones to suffer the greatest. Jmo.

Their donor bases are going to shrink if this country doesn't get back to work. This is a total meltdown of the economy.

Every institution will be effected. I bet if this go on long enough there will be furlough or layoffs in athletic departments and contracts renegotiated. How are the schools going to sit there and pay these coaching salaries if there are no games or fans in the stands and no revenue coming in? They can't.

 

[Herdmeister]

Their donor bases are going to shrink if this country doesn't get back to work. This is a total meltdown of the economy.

Every institution will be effected. I bet if this go on long enough there will be furlough or layoffs in athletic departments and contracts renegotiated. How are the schools going to sit there and pay these coaching salaries if there are no games or fans in the stands and no revenue coming in? They can't.

WKU already has announced that the AD, Stansbury and Helton will all take a 10% salary cut the coming school year

 

[i am herdman]

WKU already has announced that the AD, Stansbury and Helton will all take a 10% salary cut the coming school year

That is probably jus the beginning.

 

[The Real SamC]

Survey of I-A ADs by the Stadium Network. 114 of the 130 responded:

As scheduled - 24%
Conference games only, starting in Oct or Nov - 20%
12 game schedule, starting in Oct or Nov and running late - 41%
12 game schedule in spring - 11%
Conference games only in spring - 3%
No football season -1%

ADs were asked what they thought would happen, not what they wanted to happen.

I really don't see the NCAA signing off on winter/spring football, due to its many non I-A and non football members, and the fact that it runs basketball, while the P5 ADs, which means ESPN, runs football.