Power-5 conferences flexing their muscles

[wh]

Comments from LeCrone, et al.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2014/08/07/smaller-schools-concerned-power-conference-autonomy/13748999/

[wh]

K-State's Bill Snyder rips into college athletics: 'We've sold out'

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/kansas-state-coach-bill-snyder-says-college-athletics-has-sold-out-080614

This says everything I have been feeling and thinking, and a hundred times better than I could have said it.

[EddieCabot]

Here's another article where Snyder expresses his disgust with the "big dollar" mentality of college athletics.  A true man of integrity.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/campus-corner/article313958/Bill-Snyder-signs-new-five-year-contract-with-Kansas-State.html

[StlVUFan]

Here's another article where Snyder expresses his disgust with the "big dollar" mentality of college athletics.  A true man of integrity.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/campus-corner/article313958/Bill-Snyder-signs-new-five-year-contract-with-Kansas-State.html

[LaPorteAveApostle]

http://mgoblog.com/content/beginning-end

A rather good short analysis of the court's decision and its ramifications.

[StlVUFan]

Well, except one. Bizarrely, it was the worst one:

    Wilken sided with the NCAA on just one major issue. She empathized with the organization's mission to prevent commercial exploitation of athletes and thus denied an attempt to allow product endorsements.

The idea that getting paid for something is being exploited is the deepest weirdness the NCAA's structure has imposed on the world, and for that to come through this case unscathed is so so weird.

Um, I suspect the argument is that outside interests will be motivated to treat NCAA student-athletes like 3rd world migrant workers: pay them what to you is a pittance but to them seems like a lot.

Not saying they have a point, but I think the blogger glossed over that part just a bit.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

I think the market can do a fine job of sorting itself out in an arena with this much attention.

And anyway, wouldn't something be more than nothing, as it is now?

[vu72]

David Hopkins, President of Wright State, was on the committee who made the changes. Interesting take from him.

http://www.horizonleague.org/

[wh]

U of Texas to pay players $10,000 stipends:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/headlines/20141021-texas-athletic-director-with-new-rules-longhorns-will-pay-each-player-10000.ece

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Assuming the court decisions are upheld.

Isn't that great?  Probably not enough, given how much money UT brings in, but it's a start.

[valpotx]

I believe that UT is one of the 22 NCAA schools that is actually profitable in athletics