THE POWER FIVE SCHOOLS

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    How A 24-Sport Minimum Would Impact the Power 5 Conferences


    In all the discussion yesterday about a new division1, only one unique idea was actually tossed out. In what almost looks like a throwaway comment captured by Dan Wolken at ACC Media Days, North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham suggested that teams in Division X should have a higher minimum number of sports. And not just a couple more than Division I's current minimum of 14. Cunningham suggested a increase to 24, more than 50% over the current limit.

    As one would expect, Cunningham's Tar Heels check in comfortably with 28 NCAA sports. But what about the rest of the country? I researched the sport sponsorship at every BCS school2 to see what the offerings looked like. That research raised two interesting questions. Today I'll look at which schools and conferences would be most impacted by Cunningham's requirement. Tomorrow will start to ask which sports would see sponsorship rise and what championships a theoretical Division X or new association might focus on holding first.

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    NCAA poised to create separate voting bloc for SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12, Big 12

    SAN DIEGO – The big leagues appear poised to get their way and their own voting bloc within the NCAA.

    Polling of the roughly 800 administrators at the NCAA convention's dialog on governance revealed solid support for an autonomous voting body for the five most powerful conferences – the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12. Fifty-eight percent of those administrators – from all levels of NCAA membership – were in support of autonomy for the power conferences; 30 percent were opposed; 12 percent were neutral.

    To NCAA president Mark Emmert, that's a significant change in outlook.

    "It makes sense for the five big revenue conferences to have their own voice," Emmert told Yahoo Sports Friday. "A year ago that would have been a very difficult conversation. Now [member schools] are saying, 'Yeah, that makes sense.' … People have just become more comfortable with the ideas and concepts of it.' "

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    Fallout From Autonomy Movement
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    This NCAA offseason will center on the high-resource conferences — dubbed the ‘Power Five’ — and how that group will likely either form a new division or be granted autonomy. The Big Ten, the Atlantic Coast, the Big 12, the Pac 12 and the Southeastern Conference want to shape their own rules.

    How severe is the fallout?
    Could it even be a blessing in disguise?

    The Power Five separating from the pack could create a regrouping of Division I, in which the top quadrant of the FCS and the bottom quadrant of the FBS become intertwined. For example, according to USA Today, the budget of Texas is more than $165 million, while the budget of fellow FBS member Ball State is about $21 million and FCS member North Dakota is about $22 million.

    GROUP of FIVE CONFERENCES
    MAC, Sun Belt, Conference USA, American AC, Mountain West

    FCS CONFERENCES
    CAA, Big South, Southland, Big Sky, Southern, Ivy, Patriot, MEAC, SWAC, MVFC, OVC, Northeast, Pioneer

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    NCAA board hands 5 biggest conferences more power
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    INDIANAPOLIS | The NCAA Board of Directors overwhelmingly approved a package of historic reforms Thursday that will give the nation's five biggest conferences the ability to unilaterally change some of the basic rules governing college sports.

    If the 16-2 decision stands, there will be striking differences between the 65 largest schools and the more than 280 others in Division I beginning as early as Oct. 1, though few expect change to come that quickly.

    Representatives from the five richest leagues — the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC — will hold nearly twice as much voting power (37.5 percent) as any other group on a newly created council, where most legislation will be approved or rejected. The five other Football Bowl Subdivision leagues would account for 18.5 percent while the second-tier Football Championship Subdivision and non-football playing schools would split up another 37.5 percent of the vote. Athletes and faculty will account for the rest.

    Commissioners and school leaders from the power conferences have until Oct. 1 to create a wish list of issues they want to handle on their own.


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