[OutsiderFan]

With regards to the Penn State sanctions, the NCAA knew it didn't have jurisdiction (as per embarrassing e-mails released as part of the lawsuit) and went ahead and forced Penn State to agree to sanctions.  And, as absolutely horrible as the things that happened at Penn State were, they really should have been dealt with by law enforcement, and not the NCAA.  Don't get me wrong, I don't think that Penn State suffered some grave injustice here when the NCAA overstepped its authority (let's not lose sight of the fact that the real victims were the kids abused by Jery Sanduski), but I'm also not overly broken up by the fact that they were reversed.  It's been fashionable on the interwebs to compare the fate of U$€, who bore the full brunt of the NCAA sanctions, to Penn State, for whom most of them were overturned, but U$€ committed a good old fashioned NCAA violation, and this was not the first time that they did so.  Thus I have zero sympathy for U$€, and while I'm not especially sympathetic to Penn State, and I'm bothered by the fact that everything was swept under the rug in the name of football, the NCAA had no jurisdiction and knew it.

On the larger picture, many of the proposed changes are reasonable-ish, but the more that collegiate football like minor league professional football, the less compatible it is with Stanford playing in a Power 5 conference.  Rather than focusing on how to expand and share revenue with athletes, Power5 schools should focus on how to ensure that athletes really get the academic benefits of going to college.  If there is a sense that college athletics is an unpaid minor league football and basketball league and athletes are being exploited it is because in many places they are; the academics are there just to keep athletes eligible, and give the illusion schools care about the academic development of their mercenaries.

BC

There.  Fixed it for ya!

Back to the article...  The idea of the conferences enforcing the recruiting regulations makes it sound as though it will ultimately become a bidding contest to lure the best athletes. 

[OutsiderFan]

With regards to the Penn State sanctions, the NCAA knew it didn't have jurisdiction (as per embarrassing e-mails released as part of the lawsuit) and went ahead and forced Penn State to agree to sanctions.  And, as absolutely horrible as the things that happened at Penn State were, they really should have been dealt with by law enforcement, and not the NCAA.  Don't get me wrong, I don't think that Penn State suffered some grave injustice here when the NCAA overstepped its authority (let's not lose sight of the fact that the real victims were the kids abused by Jery Sanduski), but I'm also not overly broken up by the fact that they were reversed.  It's been fashionable on the interwebs to compare the fate of U$€, who bore the full brunt of the NCAA sanctions, to Penn State, for whom most of them were overturned, but U$€ committed a good old fashioned NCAA violation, and this was not the first time that they did so.  Thus I have zero sympathy for U$€, and while I'm not especially sympathetic to Penn State, and I'm bothered by the fact that everything was swept under the rug in the name of football, the NCAA had no jurisdiction and knew it.

On the larger picture, many of the proposed changes are reasonable-ish, but the more that collegiate football like minor league professional football, the less compatible it is with Stanford playing in a Power 5 conference.  Rather than focusing on how to expand and share revenue with athletes, Power5 schools should focus on how to ensure that athletes really get the academic benefits of going to college.  If there is a sense that college athletics is an unpaid minor league football and basketball league and athletes are being exploited it is because in many places they are; the academics are there just to keep athletes eligible, and give the illusion schools care about the academic development of their mercenaries.

BC

There.  Fixed it for ya!

Back to the article...  The idea of the conferences enforcing the recruiting regulations makes it sound as though it will ultimately become a bidding contest to lure the best athletes.