Notre Dame AD forsees the FBS splitting in two

[SiouxVolley]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/25112658/notre-dame-ad-has-a-vision-of-two-college-athletic-associations

 

ND AD Swarbrick says FBS may have to split, as one will follow a semipro system, and one will follow a strict academic line.  Notre Dame would be academic, along with schools like BC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Stanford, UVa, and others.  Most of the lower schools would follow Notre Dame, whereas the SEC would be semipro.

 

He may just be blowing smoke, as he says congressional oversight is coming, but this is the first proposal that seems to divide FBS by another means than just P5 vs G5.  He says Notre Dame won't spend more than 4% on athletics, while some P5 schools go much higher. 

[darell1976]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/dennis-dodd/25112658/notre-dame-ad-has-a-vision-of-two-college-athletic-associations

 

ND AD Swarbrick says FBS may have to split, as one will follow a semipro system, and one will follow a strict academic line.  Notre Dame would be academic, along with schools like BC, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Stanford, UVa, and others.  Most of the lower schools would follow Notre Dame, whereas the SEC would be semipro.

 

He may just be blowing smoke, as he says congressional oversight is coming, but this is the first proposal that seems to divide FBS by another means than just P5 vs G5.  He says Notre Dame won't spend more than 4% on athletics, while some P5 schools go much higher. 

I can't see ND not going along with the other "major" schools in the FBS.  If the p5 spend X amount on athletics the Irish will match that, no way they fall back with the MAC and SB teams.

[The Sicatoka]

That vision portends a future when schools won't necessarily be defined by their conferences but by their core beliefs. 

 

We'll that sounds all "duckies and bunnies, rainbows and unicorns", but it's not how Notre Dame played it when they jumped out of the CFA for a fat NBC television deal in 1990. Seemed football dollars, not academic mission, ruled the roost then. Tell me what's changed. 

[ScottM]

I'd be curious where highly selective public universities with big dollar athletic departments, like Michigan and Texas, would go. 

[The Sicatoka]

I'd be curious where highly selective public universities with big dollar athletic departments, like Michigan and Texas, would go. 

 

That question applies to all of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and their "it's about academics" facade ... (ignore the Big Ten Network thing ... ).