That also might be awfully hard to police? How is the NCAA supposed to account the cash flow to be sure it isn't 150,000.00 or such? Right now anything over zero is verboten, they don't have to get the exact amount to bust someone... Maybe the money would have to pass through the NCAA's hands to be legal?
I'm sure they'd work out something in that vein. I don't have an answer, other than to say that the NCAA needs bigtime cfb and maybe cbb more than they need it. If the Pac-12, Big Ten, SEC and maybe Big XII decided to leave the NCAA, I might be able to play on a national title team. If there's no deadline, hell, I've got three years of collegiate tennis eligibility left...
I don't think he regards single boat and squash titles as relevant. 1979 NCAA basketball Final Four - DePaul (Mark Aguirre) Indiana State (Larry Bird) Michigan State (Magic) Penn (Tony Price, played 2 games for the Clippers and got cut) That is as far as it went, but a nice ride ...
Actually, I think Harvard was in a Frozen Four a while back. By "relevant" I don't mean that they're not true champs if they win an NCAA event --they are-- but not in a sport that drives decisionmaking at the conference level.
They actually won the men's ice hockey championship in 1989: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/1/harvard-hockey-1989-championship-25-years-perspective/ Cornell won it twice: http://www.cornellbigred.com/sports/2009/4/6/MICE_0406094147.aspx?path=mhockey Yale has won it, as well. http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...nnipiac-clinch-first-ncaa-hockey-championship AFAIK, the only decision-making sport are football & men's basketball, the revenue generators. Track & Field has suffered greatly, while baseball & wrestling may be popular, but not money-making, with rare exceptions.
I youtubed "Harvard Hockey", but I used "Frozen Four" with it and came up empty. I guess 1989 was before the brand-building name...
Looks like that sobriquet was first used in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men's_Ice_Hockey_Championship
Ohio State tried to charge $12-$20 for a spring game ticket and, when they realized they had only sold 37,000 seats, dropped it to $5 today. Proceeds have always gone to charity but Gene Smith said today "We made a mistake and overpriced it. All seats will be $5 from here on out". I would give the link but I just heard it on sports radio.
Man, that's some real crazy. Alabama and Auburn have actually won B(C)S titles within the last decade and their spring games are free to the public, AFAIK. I know Bama's is.
If the game was free they wouldn't have enough room. I think they had 90,000+ at $5 a year or two ago.
No one has enough room, stanger. It's first come, first serve. I know there's nothing to do in Tuscaloosa, figure it's probably the same or worse in Columbus. All nine top tradition programs are in small towns except USC. Don't know how that happened, exactly.
I was surprised to find out about a decade ago that Columbus is the largest city in Ohio, and equally surprised to find out a couple of years ago that Austin was as big as it is: I'd assumed it was a university town + state capitol similar to Madison, Lincoln, Baton Rouge, or Tallahassee (and until relatively recently in my mind, Columbus), and not, what 80o,000 + now.
Hey, man, I hope you didn't just jinx your team. EDIT: Wait: that's EXACTLY what I hope you just did.