Thursday, June 10, 2010

What does it mean? Part Two

So here come some issues that most people won't talk about when it comes to having four super conferences.

Does this mean that these four conferences will supercede the NCAA? Will it become Super Conference member, Division I, Division II, and Division III.

These big schools will have so much power in college athletics. They won't need to listen to the NCAA so much anymore. The NCAA loses a lot of power if there are less conferences. The Big Four Conferences could decide to hold their own championships and advertise them as being the best of the best.

My guess is that the BCS turns into the top two teams from each of the four new leagues and MAYBE two spots for teams from the WAC or Mountain West. Don't hold your breath on the second part.

Two things interest me right off the bat when it comes to the NCAA having less power.

How does the NCAA having less power influence two things, Female College Athletics and Academic Integrity?

If the super conferences are more powerful then the NCAA and can create their own championships than they also can create their own academic standards. Would it matter if kids passed class anymore? Could student athletes get away with taking golf, swimming, tennis and Mexican hat dancing for a semester's worth of classes?

Could Male college student athletes (because it's been CLEARLY found that female student athletes are smarter and try harder in school then male student athletes) in the major conferences become MUCH DUMBER then they already are? Could the next generation of male college athletes be SO DUMB that they think the color of George Washington's White Horse was Purple?

Would it be permissible for student athletes to receive gifts. Would this open the door for college athletes to get paid?

While Title IX prevents female sports from being ignored, I wonder how not having the NCAA around could effect female athletics. I feel like the NCAA tries to balance education, social good and financial success. They try to promote things like community service and respect for female athletics. I feel that the new conferences, if they were to happen, would be largely formed on the basis of making lots of money with little regard to what happens to anything other than football and men's basketball. I don't know if or how much of a positive or negative effect that could have on female college athletics.

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