For NCAA hoops, the best time to go public about big issues is right before the Final Four. Everybody is paying attention at that point.
It is very easy to bash the NCAA for its endless failures, which have accumulated over the past 30 years or so. And Mark Emmert is as easy a target as anybody with NCAA power has been except for the perpetually, self-righteously loathsome Myles Brand. So what grabbed my attention in reading about the Rat-face speaking to the press in regard to the NCAA today is this: "He suggested a football model -- major college football is controlled by an entity, the College Football Playoff, that falls outside the NCAA's purview -- might be in order for men's and women's basketball, and maybe some other sports, too."
Perhaps the major reason that Major College Football seems to have about 10 times (as opposed to say only 2 or 3 times) the power of basketball is that the NCAA does NOT control the 1A/FBS/Major CFB post-season.
Yes, I think it is as simple as that if the subject is a sport's ability to maximize its value while regulating problems that could harm that value and therefore harm all those who participate in the sport, including the most passionate fans.
Ever since conference realignment (which at each step has been 100% about football) kicked into high gear, there has been endless discussion about whether Kansas has much chance to remain a member of a Major/Power conference. Kansas basketball is so Blue-Blood that its football equivalent would be a program like Michigan or Penn St. It should be a given that KU not merely makes any cut down to 4 super conferences, but that KU is prized.
KU is not worth much in conference realignment because: KU has almost no football history and almost no football fans; KU has no football rival that matters even a little bit to anybody living outside KS; KU's main rival, Kansas St, is highly unlikely to make any cut of Major Conferences down to 4; KS produces very little football talent; the people of KS have never shown any interest in watching KU football on TV.
All of the above would matter less to Kansas remaining in a Major/Power conference if Major College basketball were worth more money, and that is most easily able to come to fruition if the Major/Power conferences control their own post-season - just like football.
Dook is not in any kind of perilous position like KU, and the reason is UNC. The UNC-Dook basketball rivalry is the only basketball rivalry worth close to what many of the most important football rivalries are worth. And that means that even the SEC would take Dook in order to land UNC. But Rat-face wants the ACC to survive. The farther behind the SEC and BT the ACC falls in revenue, the more likely it is that a school with a concrete offer will decide to leave and fight the GOR in court.
The Major conferences taking full control over their own post-season will maximize its value, and that will help the ACC.
It is very easy to bash the NCAA for its endless failures, which have accumulated over the past 30 years or so. And Mark Emmert is as easy a target as anybody with NCAA power has been except for the perpetually, self-righteously loathsome Myles Brand. So what grabbed my attention in reading about the Rat-face speaking to the press in regard to the NCAA today is this: "He suggested a football model -- major college football is controlled by an entity, the College Football Playoff, that falls outside the NCAA's purview -- might be in order for men's and women's basketball, and maybe some other sports, too."
Perhaps the major reason that Major College Football seems to have about 10 times (as opposed to say only 2 or 3 times) the power of basketball is that the NCAA does NOT control the 1A/FBS/Major CFB post-season.
Yes, I think it is as simple as that if the subject is a sport's ability to maximize its value while regulating problems that could harm that value and therefore harm all those who participate in the sport, including the most passionate fans.
Ever since conference realignment (which at each step has been 100% about football) kicked into high gear, there has been endless discussion about whether Kansas has much chance to remain a member of a Major/Power conference. Kansas basketball is so Blue-Blood that its football equivalent would be a program like Michigan or Penn St. It should be a given that KU not merely makes any cut down to 4 super conferences, but that KU is prized.
KU is not worth much in conference realignment because: KU has almost no football history and almost no football fans; KU has no football rival that matters even a little bit to anybody living outside KS; KU's main rival, Kansas St, is highly unlikely to make any cut of Major Conferences down to 4; KS produces very little football talent; the people of KS have never shown any interest in watching KU football on TV.
All of the above would matter less to Kansas remaining in a Major/Power conference if Major College basketball were worth more money, and that is most easily able to come to fruition if the Major/Power conferences control their own post-season - just like football.
Dook is not in any kind of perilous position like KU, and the reason is UNC. The UNC-Dook basketball rivalry is the only basketball rivalry worth close to what many of the most important football rivalries are worth. And that means that even the SEC would take Dook in order to land UNC. But Rat-face wants the ACC to survive. The farther behind the SEC and BT the ACC falls in revenue, the more likely it is that a school with a concrete offer will decide to leave and fight the GOR in court.
The Major conferences taking full control over their own post-season will maximize its value, and that will help the ACC.
