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School sports activities are, virtually undeniably, in a worse place now than they had been a decade or two once more.
You possibly can blame the NCAA. You possibly can blame conferences, and you may blame faculty directors. However the reality is, that’s simply the truth.
The excellent news is, the Huge Ten and SEC have determined to come back to the rescue* (*additional ring school athletics dry for each penny doable) by forming an “advisory group” aimed toward surveying the ever altering school sports activities panorama.
NEWS: Huge Ten & SEC are making a joint advisory group of presidents & ADs in an pressing mission to search out options & steer school sports activities into the long run.
“Pressures are mounting,” SEC’s Greg Sankey tells @YahooSports. “We aren’t going to be establishment.”
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) February 2, 2024
” The Huge Ten Convention and Southeastern Convention immediately introduced the formation of a joint advisory group of college presidents, chancellors, and athletics administrators to deal with the numerous challenges dealing with school athletics and the alternatives for betterment of the student- athlete expertise,” a press launch from the Huge Ten acknowledged.
“These challenges, together with however not restricted to current court docket selections, pending litigation, a patchwork of state legal guidelines, and complicated governance proposals, compel the 2 conferences to take a management position in creating options for a sustainable future of faculty sports activities.
“The advisory group will interact with different constituencies as mandatory, together with session with student-athletes and different key management teams from inside each conferences.”
Now, you could assume to your self “that sounds acquainted.
That’s as a result of it does!
The Huge Ten tried to type an identical partnership with ACC and Pac-12 lower than three years in the past.
How’d that work out?
Properly, the Pac-12 not exists and the ACC just isn’t prone to exist past 2030. And that could be an optimistic view of issues.
Extra probably, this may function an additional consolidation of energy by the 2 conferences who already rule the roost in school athletics.
How does this profit followers? Properly, it probably doesn’t.
However the excellent news is that it might make member colleges of these conferences more cash. Which is all anyone actually cares about anyway, proper?
These colleges hoping to keep away from being left behind higher hop on board quickly. As a result of the prepare seems to be leaving the station.
