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NCAA’s Emmert: It is time to decentralize college sports

Emmert uses the "P" word....time for college sports to, you know, pivot.

“You can lean back and do nothing and then just wait and see what happens,” Emmert said. “Or you can say, ‘Look, we’re in it. This is a new era.’ We need to take advantage of it, pivot as much as we can toward the areas that I was just talking about and and embrace that change rather than fighting it.”
 
Never underestimate Emmert’s ability to turn something to crap.

“You can lean back and do nothing and then just wait and see what happens,” Emmert said. “Or you can say, ‘Look, we’re in it. This is a new era.’ We need to take advantage of it, pivot as much as we can toward the areas that I was just talking about and and embrace that change rather than fighting it.”

Translation: “You can lean back and do nothing and then just wait and see what happens or you can just say you are going to lean back and do nothing and pretend that that is a plan.”
 
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billybud said:
Emmert uses the "P" word....time for college sports to, you know, pivot.

“You can lean back and do nothing and then just wait and see what happens,” Emmert said. “Or you can say, ‘Look, we’re in it. This is a new era.’ We need to take advantage of it, pivot as much as we can toward the areas that I was just talking about and and embrace that change rather than fighting it.”
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Hilarious to think of an “amateur” organization needing to pivot their business model
 
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BGesus4 said:
Hilarious to think of an “amateur” organization needing to pivot their business model
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Think of it as less a pivot than a continuation move...the Autonomy Five was just the shoulder dropping and the foot coming around.
 
billybud said:
Think of it as less a pivot than a continuation move...the Autonomy Five was just the shoulder dropping and the foot coming around.
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Wait, haven't you been telling us how happy the P5 was with the current NCAA arrangement for last six months or so? Don't get me wrong. I fully agree with this post. It just seems like a bit of a... pivot... for you.
 
The P5 is happy....(nothing I have said changes that). But as Emmert says, the court case changes things even more....schools will evolve further...the distance between Alabama and Old Dominion will widen...

Already, the distance between Clemson, Bama, Ohio State, and Indiana and Wake Forest is pretty clear...if programs have a free reign with deregulation of the NCAA, it will be another age of the robber barons. Already, the veneer of amateurism was pretty darn thin...now it will all but disappear...

Those programs with deep pocket donors like the SEC and some Big Ten and a couple of Big 12 programs, will be able to buy teams far different from those with smaller wallets.
 
BGesus4 said:
Hilarious to think of an “amateur” organization needing to pivot their business model
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billybud said:
Think of it as less a pivot than a continuation move...the Autonomy Five was just the shoulder dropping and the foot coming around.
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CL82 said:
Wait, haven't you been telling us how happy the P5 was with the current NCAA arrangement for last six months or so?
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billybud said:
The P5 is happy....(nothing I have said changes that).
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[Shrugs]
 
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This was obviously foreseeable.

And most people didn’t see it coming
 
the Q said:
This was obviously foreseeable.

And most people didn’t see it coming
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The course of the river was foreseeable. Seeing the NCAA take it (and not just talk about taking it) instead of trying to swim upstream is a whole other deal itself.

This all being said, decentralized sports suck (boxing). There has to be one central scheduler, rules decider, and championship organizer. Hopefully the revenue sports can make their own smaller sport specific organizations. Conference level organizations being the primaries would be a disaster for college basketball.
 
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billybud said:
The P5 is really the power 20 anyway....the other 45 or so in the Autonomous Conferences are just moons that got attached to the right planets.
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This. The football pie will shrink, but in a way where the Alabamas and Ohio States will benefit.
 
auror said:
The course of the river was foreseeable. Seeing the NCAA take it (and not just talk about taking it) instead of trying to swim upstream is a whole other deal itself.

This all being said, decentralized sports suck (boxing). There has to be one central scheduler, rules decider, and championship organizer. Hopefully the revenue sports can make their own smaller sport specific organizations. Conference level organizations being the primaries would be a disaster for college basketball.
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Nah.

Give me chaos at this point.

Everyone who couldn’t foresee it should get exactly what they asked for
 
Operative wording....

Emmert said the NCAA's more than 1,100 member schools should consider a less homogenous approach to the way sports are governed and re-examine the current three division structure, which includes 355 Division I colleges.
 
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I propose truth in naming....just two Divisions...the H and the EE...(Haves and Everyone Else)
 
billybud said:
Operative wording....

Emmert said the NCAA's more than 1,100 member schools should consider a less homogenous approach to the way sports are governed and re-examine the current three division structure, which includes 355 Division I colleges.
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It looks like he's positioning the NCAA to continue to administer the non-money championships and is preparing to throw the enforcement group overboard in order to it. The question is whether that justifies allowing them to keep the take from March Madness. If there is a less expensive way to do that, why wouldn't the P5 just walk with enough schools to make the MM a viable money maker?
 
CL82 said:
It looks like he's positioning the NCAA to continue to administer the non-money championships and is preparing to throw the enforcement group overboard in order to it. The question is whether that justifies allowing them to keep the take from March Madness. If there is a less expensive way to do that, why wouldn't the P5 just walk with enough schools to make the MM a viable money maker?
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Just have all the p5s in. Every year
 
Since P5 is a football designation...and basketball power is not necessarily synonomous...It wouldn't seem to work...

But, brand new idea....have two BB tournaments...P5 and non P5....let the winners meet for the National Championship...two tournaments to watch, big lead up and millions cheering for each champ...Do away with the NIT.
 
the Q said:
Just have all the p5s in. Every year
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Too small and given the Big East's success, I think they have to make the cut.

Off the top of my head, the P5, football independents, the Big East and who else?
 
CL82 said:
Too small and given the Big East's success, I think they have to make the cut.

Off the top of my head, the P5, football independents, the Big East and who else?
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That’s really all you need.
 
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auror said:
The course of the river was foreseeable. Seeing the NCAA take it (and not just talk about taking it) instead of trying to swim upstream is a whole other deal itself.

This all being said, decentralized sports suck (boxing). There has to be one central scheduler, rules decider, and championship organizer. Hopefully the revenue sports can make their own smaller sport specific organizations. Conference level organizations being the primaries would be a disaster for college basketball.
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This is great for people who hate college sports, it's a disaster for college sports.
 
billybud said:
Operative wording....

Emmert said the NCAA's more than 1,100 member schools should consider a less homogenous approach to the way sports are governed and re-examine the current three division structure, which includes 355 Division I colleges.
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Wait! Treat Football players differently than the Boce team? What is this sorcery?
 
This press conference and his "new narrative" just proves that Emmert is nothing more than the P5 conference commissioners and presidents talking, walking beotch.

This bureaucrat piece of whale dung has had years... YEARS... going back to the the original decision in the Charles O'Bannon antitrust lawsuit in 2014. The writing was on the wall. He and the NCAA could have been proactive and tried to formulate a new direction for collegiate sports then.

But nope... as your typical bureaucrat who is desperate to hold onto his and his cronies' power as long as he can (to profit as much as he can until the bitter end) all we heard out of Emmert was backward thinking, overload mentality BS. Just go back and look at his testimony during that trial and commentary afterward, and for most of the time since.

I truly dislike few people, as I tend to try and find the good in most everyone. But Mark Emmert is very easy to dislike. A lot. He has proven time and time again to be a smug, disingenuous bureaucrat since well before he was made NCAA President, including during his time here at UConn. He and most of the commissioners and presidents who pull his strings have no one to blame but themselves for where this is at right now, and going forward.

Of course, they are all getting rich off of their prolonged, ongoing, blatant mismanagement. It is all so pathetic to watch.
 
LStudfellow said:
This press conference and his "new narrative" just proves that Emmert is nothing more than the P5 conference commissioners and presidents talking, walking beotch.

This bureaucrat piece of whale dung has had years... YEARS... going back to the the original decision in the Charles O'Bannon antitrust lawsuit in 2014. The writing was on the wall. He and the NCAA could have been proactive and tried to formulate a new direction for collegiate sports then.

But nope... as your typical bureaucrat who is desperate to hold onto his and his cronies' power as long as he can (to profit as much as he can until the bitter end) all we heard out of Emmert was backward thinking, overload mentality BS. Just go back and look at his testimony during that trial and commentary afterward, and for most of the time since.

I truly dislike few people, as I tend to try and find the good in most everyone. But Mark Emmert is very easy to dislike. A lot. He has proven time and time again to be a smug, disingenuous bureaucrat since well before he was made NCAA President, including during his time here at UConn. He and most of the commissioners and presidents who pull his strings have no one to blame but themselves for where this is at right now, and going forward.

Of course, they are all getting rich off of their prolonged, ongoing, blatant mismanagement. It is all so pathetic to watch.
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star wars hate GIF
 
I did not realize that Emmert was formerly at UConn....$100 million lost due to mismanagement! But not pinned to his watch.

Emmert oversaw the first two years of a ten-year-long, $1 billion construction project, UConn 2000, that added many new academic buildings, residence halls and landscape projects to the Storrs campus, and new buildings and facilities to the regional campuses. UConn 2000 is widely credited with transforming the university. Some of the projects became controversial because of charges of mismanagement in the facilities and contracting services. These issues, which included more than $100 million lost due to mismanagement and more than a hundred fire and safety code violations, did not come to light during Emmert's tenure. The vast majority of the projects were begun after Emmert's tenure. Something handwritten on Emmert's stationery in 1998 suggested he was aware of construction management challenges. Some of the construction projects later became the focus of a state investigation in 2005. Governor Rell called it "astonishing failure of oversight and management." Two administrators who oversaw the projects during this time were placed on leave and subsequently resigned six years after Emmert had left the university.[4]
 
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