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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4897633, member: 549"] [HEADING=2][SIZE=4]SBJ: [/SIZE][URL='https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/03/01/charlie-baker-big-ten-sec-partnership?publicationSource=closingbell&issue=8aa0c9ddaf2b431da9b2dd72cf643af6'][SIZE=4]Baker sounds off on SEC-Big Ten partnership[/SIZE][/URL][/HEADING] -> As the Big Ten and SEC mull their collective futures, NCAA President Charlie Baker isn’t panicking. If anything, he’s optimistic the discussions can help bring resolutions to some of college sports’ biggest lingering issues. “It's not the first time those conversations or issues [about leagues breaking away] have come up,” Baker said during a wide-ranging interview today. “I think it's incumbent on me to come up with a 'business model' that gives those kinds of schools and those kinds of conferences the latitude to be able to do some of the things that they would like to do.” The “business model” Baker is referring to is his proposal from late last year that has since been dubbed “Project DI.” The document calls for the creation of a subdivision within D-I that schools could choose to opt into and would allow more direct payments to athletes. Among the key pieces in the proposal, Baker suggested schools should be able to create enhanced educational trust funds of at least $30,000 per year for at least half of an institution’s qualified athletes. Baker has spent recent months gathering feedback from colleagues on the idea and noted on Friday, “My goal is to try to get something in front of the membership before summer.” “We've got to figure out what [the future model] looks like, and that's been what the last couple of months has been about,” Baker said. “But I'm not living in a world where everybody's saying that the [Power Four] should be treated just like everybody else, because people get the fact that from an operations point of view, a scale point of view, they're not [the same]. I think that's directionally a good thing."<- [/QUOTE]

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