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--- Quote from: guinpen on September 19, 2011, 08:21:42 PM ---
--- Quote from: Wick250 on September 18, 2011, 11:17:34 PM ---The reason we are all in uncharted waters is the fact that this is the first time that the very existence of the NCAA as we know it is threatened by the big boys and their television money.  Will they bolt from the NCAA, form those super conferences for all sports, and start to pay their players "stipends?"  Or will they simply wrest concessions from the NCAA but stay within the organization?

My prediction for YSU is that in five years we will still be affiliated with two conferences: football only as a member of a restructured CAA and everything else in the Horizon League, which will have lost Butler but nobody else.  Milwaukee fans are delusional if they think that their institution is attractive to the big boys.

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I agree that it is only a matter of time before we will see 64 teams 4 16 team leagues, starting their own party. And yes no NCAA means they can pay the players, which means that all the rest of the schools in the country will have a talent drop off.

And yes Milwaukee fans really must be delusional.

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I don't know that there will be much of a talent level drop off for 1-A schools (65-112) and 1AA schools. The best players will still go to the top 64 like they already are doing. A few hundred bucks a month won't change that much. Sure a dirt poor kid may decide to ride the bench for 4 years to get an extra $258/mo for 9 months. But that would be very shortsighted.

Most kids want to play football. Not be tackling dummies for 4 years. Trust me, $258 dollars/month is NOT worth the price to be a 4th team lineman at OSU vs being a starter at Kent State (mid major) or YSU (1-AA).

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