And a big âF*ck you too!â in response to the Big East et al:
clt says we need to close a bunch of colleges in NC
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This is horse shit. G5 getting hosed. Basing the ratios on basketball tournament distributions (which appears to be the basis), when this is really about football, is crap.
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P5 does have its apologists and some are rather surprising. In spite of being an X account named Major Madness, the site touts itself as âCovering the Small Conferences of NCAA Division 1 that continually overachieve and steal the spotlight in March.â
BTW, not sure how accurate those numbers he lists for the AAC are.
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Since this is 4 conferences versus like 20 canât they just outvote them and force a change?
This guy needs a sledge hammer to the knee cap
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I am fighting the fight on Twitter but I havenât actually read the 3 antitrust suits, just some summaries.
I believe the complaint here is against the NCAAs prohibition against NLI, which covers all sports, including football, so trying to hide behind NCAA basketball tournament payouts as a means to apportion a large share of the settlement to non-power leagues is the kind of bullshit lawyering that CHeat did to stay out of trouble.
Which is to say that it is total crap, and they will still totally get away with it because anyone with a voice will just apologize and rationalize for them and theyâll never be forced to accountability for the obnoxious share of college football money theyâve horded over the past 30 years or so.
Cliffs: big guys keep an unfair share of the money, pass an unfair share of the bill to the ones who only ever got crumbs. Same shit, different day.
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I wonder if we will lose a full share or a partial share of the AAC liability. Since we are only getting a partial share and we just showed up to the party it seems like we should get a discount.
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Major Madness (@low_madness) is doubling down on his P5 defense, but not going to bother posting anymore from that X account. Just odd that a site that is purportedly devoted to âlow majorâ hoops would be so vehemently pro-P5.
Anyway, as McCann notes below, judge still has to sign off and an approved settlement of House doesnât preclude additional lawsuits etc.
https://x.com/McCannSportsLaw/status/1792971619670929725
Plus his opinion on non-P5 suing:
I donât understand why all the conferences donât have to approve.
Literally answered by McCann right above your post.
I was not answered in his post. There was no explanation of why only the P5 has to approve the deal.
House v NCAA specifically names only the then five Autonomous conferences - ACC, B10, B12, Pac-12, and SEC - at the time the lawsuit was filed.
Anyway, as McCann notes, the NCAA is a membership association:
Thatâs not an explanation. I think you donât understand what Iâm asking.
Now you mentioned that the plaintiffs were the P5. If thatâs the case then why do they get to make the decision for the entire NCAA D1??
It doesnât make any sense unless there is some bylaw that allows this to be approved by the plaintiffs in a lawsuit and itâs binding to all members.
Now THAT would be an explanation.
The text you quoted implies that the decision comes from the NCAA not the members. But conversely its the members (the P5) thatâs voting to accept the settlement.
Does that make sense?
Does that help?
clt says it is the P2
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Probably has something to do with them having autonomy to do whatever they want to do. They are apparently driving the bus and everyone else is along for the ride. I think everyone else is scared they will get kicked off the bus for making too much noise but I wish instead of being scared they would just burn the damn thing down.
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Yes, that helps. Probably easiest answer is that for a good part of the history of the NCAA, votes on legislation etc involved the entire membership. Over the years and particularly during the past decade or so, the Autonomous Five (now Four with Pac-12 implosion) aka Power 4/5 have consolidated their grip on the NCAA through organizational restructuring. Most recently, a change in the NCAAâs constitution lowered the Board of Directors from 20 to 9 members. Basically, the non-autonomous conferences etc and their constituent schools ceded power to the Big Boys. Paying for it now - literally!
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