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ACC Coaches Worry Cost of Attendance Payments Could Make Playing Field Uneven (dailyprogress.com; Barber)
Many college football coaches have advocated for years for ways to get more money, within the rules, to their players.
So they all must be ecstatic with the NCAA’s new legislation that allows colleges to pay for athletes’ full cost of attendance and not just the previously covered tuition, room and board, fees and books. Right?
“It’s a nightmare,” Clemson University coach Dabo Swinney said.
The problem Swinney and many of his Atlantic Coast Conference football coaching colleagues see with the rule is each school computes its own cost-of-attendance figure, following federal guidelines. The result is a disparity in what schools are adding to their existing scholarships to cover the cost of attendance.
And that disparity, coaches worry, could create recruiting advantages and disadvantages.
“The intent is good,” Swinney said. “But for one school to be able to pay $3,000 or $4,000 more than another school, then at the end of the day guys are going to make decisions for the wrong reasons, and it shouldn’t be that way. I don’t like where we are right now.”
He’s not alone.
“I think they have a lot of work to do on the cost of attendance, because, obviously, you don’t want it to be an advantage for one school over the other,” said University of Louisville coach Bobby Petrino. “I’m not sure that’s fair throughout the country to have it be different at one school than the other.”
Academic scholarships already included cost-of-attendance money, which is designed to cover travel home for students, school supplies and computers, among other items, as outlined in the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Beth Armstrong, Virginia Tech’s director of university scholarships and financial aid, said there is no specific formula set forth in the law to compute cost of attendance — just a guideline.
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ACC Network One of Many Issues at ACC Meetings (palmbeachpost.com; Ehrmann)
The Atlantic Coast Conference’s power brokers will meet Monday through Thursday in Amelia Island to discuss a variety of conference issues. Here are five big-picture topics sure to be discussed between rounds of golf:
Network on the way? Though it has a syndication deal that brings it into homes up and down the eastern U.S., the ACC is for all intents and purposes the only Power Five conference without a standalone cable channel. That means it is potentially losing out on major bucks.
The SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 have eponymous networks, and Big 12 fans are served in part by The Longhorn Network. The SEC Network, according to data procured by Fox Sports, brings in $547.3 million a year in revenue. That’s fifth among any cable sports network (behind only ESPN, NFL, Fox Sports 1 and ESPN2).
Clearly, the ACC wouldn’t immediately challenge the SEC (or Big Ten, which reportedly brings in around $290 million), but its continued negotiations with ESPN on a dedicated channel are of major interest.
Early signing period: It appears this will be a quick discussion.
“I think we’ll talk about it, but I think that’s far enough down the road that it’s going to become a reality this year,” said University of Miami Athletic Director Blake James, who also serves as the ACC’s representative on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee. “As a group, that’s something we support.”
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New Pitt Football HC Pat Narduzzi
Pitt Coaches, AD Headed to ACC Meetings Today (post-gazette.com; Werner)
Scott Barnes won’t officially take office as Pitt’s athletic director until July 1, but his tenure effectively begins this week.
Barnes will represent Pitt at the ACC’s annual spring meetings, which start today in Amelia Island, Fla.
Barnes, along with the rest of the league’s athletic directors and coaches — Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi will also attend for the first time — plan to look at a number of issues facing the conference across all sports, on and off the field.
If they take their cue from other leagues that have already held their meetings, one item surely on the agenda will be how the conference goes about determining its champion and, in turn, league scheduling.
NCAA rules state that a league must have two divisions and at least 12 teams to hold a football conference championship game, but — thanks to proposed legislation sponsored by the ACC and Big 12 — that rule appears to be on its way out.
Speculation has held that the ACC wishes to deregulate the conference championship game to change its divisional alignment — or eliminate divisions entirely — though commissioner John Swofford has consistently denied that the league has any sort of alternative scheduling model already in mind.
Still, the ACC — which voted last year at these meetings to keep eight conference football games per year — faces the scheduling issue of teams in opposite divisions only playing each other once every six years. Although if the league wants to keep its current divisional setup, as well as eight conference games per year, something may have to budge.
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ACC Coaches Worry Cost of Attendance Payments Could Make Playing Field Uneven (dailyprogress.com; Barber)
Many college football coaches have advocated for years for ways to get more money, within the rules, to their players.
So they all must be ecstatic with the NCAA’s new legislation that allows colleges to pay for athletes’ full cost of attendance and not just the previously covered tuition, room and board, fees and books. Right?
“It’s a nightmare,” Clemson University coach Dabo Swinney said.
The problem Swinney and many of his Atlantic Coast Conference football coaching colleagues see with the rule is each school computes its own cost-of-attendance figure, following federal guidelines. The result is a disparity in what schools are adding to their existing scholarships to cover the cost of attendance.
And that disparity, coaches worry, could create recruiting advantages and disadvantages.
“The intent is good,” Swinney said. “But for one school to be able to pay $3,000 or $4,000 more than another school, then at the end of the day guys are going to make decisions for the wrong reasons, and it shouldn’t be that way. I don’t like where we are right now.”
He’s not alone.
“I think they have a lot of work to do on the cost of attendance, because, obviously, you don’t want it to be an advantage for one school over the other,” said University of Louisville coach Bobby Petrino. “I’m not sure that’s fair throughout the country to have it be different at one school than the other.”
Academic scholarships already included cost-of-attendance money, which is designed to cover travel home for students, school supplies and computers, among other items, as outlined in the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Beth Armstrong, Virginia Tech’s director of university scholarships and financial aid, said there is no specific formula set forth in the law to compute cost of attendance — just a guideline.
...
ACC Network One of Many Issues at ACC Meetings (palmbeachpost.com; Ehrmann)
The Atlantic Coast Conference’s power brokers will meet Monday through Thursday in Amelia Island to discuss a variety of conference issues. Here are five big-picture topics sure to be discussed between rounds of golf:
Network on the way? Though it has a syndication deal that brings it into homes up and down the eastern U.S., the ACC is for all intents and purposes the only Power Five conference without a standalone cable channel. That means it is potentially losing out on major bucks.
The SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 have eponymous networks, and Big 12 fans are served in part by The Longhorn Network. The SEC Network, according to data procured by Fox Sports, brings in $547.3 million a year in revenue. That’s fifth among any cable sports network (behind only ESPN, NFL, Fox Sports 1 and ESPN2).
Clearly, the ACC wouldn’t immediately challenge the SEC (or Big Ten, which reportedly brings in around $290 million), but its continued negotiations with ESPN on a dedicated channel are of major interest.
Early signing period: It appears this will be a quick discussion.
“I think we’ll talk about it, but I think that’s far enough down the road that it’s going to become a reality this year,” said University of Miami Athletic Director Blake James, who also serves as the ACC’s representative on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee. “As a group, that’s something we support.”
...
New Pitt Football HC Pat Narduzzi
Pitt Coaches, AD Headed to ACC Meetings Today (post-gazette.com; Werner)
Scott Barnes won’t officially take office as Pitt’s athletic director until July 1, but his tenure effectively begins this week.
Barnes will represent Pitt at the ACC’s annual spring meetings, which start today in Amelia Island, Fla.
Barnes, along with the rest of the league’s athletic directors and coaches — Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi will also attend for the first time — plan to look at a number of issues facing the conference across all sports, on and off the field.
If they take their cue from other leagues that have already held their meetings, one item surely on the agenda will be how the conference goes about determining its champion and, in turn, league scheduling.
NCAA rules state that a league must have two divisions and at least 12 teams to hold a football conference championship game, but — thanks to proposed legislation sponsored by the ACC and Big 12 — that rule appears to be on its way out.
Speculation has held that the ACC wishes to deregulate the conference championship game to change its divisional alignment — or eliminate divisions entirely — though commissioner John Swofford has consistently denied that the league has any sort of alternative scheduling model already in mind.
Still, the ACC — which voted last year at these meetings to keep eight conference football games per year — faces the scheduling issue of teams in opposite divisions only playing each other once every six years. Although if the league wants to keep its current divisional setup, as well as eight conference games per year, something may have to budge.
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