NCAA "a lot of change"

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They are only talking football right now. I can't see this ever happening, letting the big boys pay players and others not? I'm sure title 9 would also play into this.

Interpretation - those that make the money get to make the rules.  Yes, football only for  7 power (former) BCS conferences.   Can men and women's basketball be far behind? 

What I found interesting was this statement: "In this scenario, those schools would be permitted, for example, to grant athletes the full cost of attendance and possibly pass rules in other areas such as agent regulation. It would not preclude other conferences from also deciding to do so."   I'm very interested to hear what they have to say about agent regulation and pushing COA decision making down to the conferences.  Will they tighten the agent rules or relax them?  We'll see.  It seems to me they are letting the horse out of the barn, and trying to tighten the rules would be counter to their direction.  Pushing the COA decision making down to the conference level is an extremely interesting move.  JMO.

Currently, a full scholarship covers tuition, fees, room, board and books.  Correct?  I wonder how many additional dollars they're talking about to cover the full COA.

I have no problem. Federal student loans cover the full COA. Plenty of academic scholarships do the same. Not all, but many. I persoanlly think that is a great place to start the argument. A college player can now work a job, but unfortunately, most of the jobs that work with a player's sports schedule are suspect especially when they come from boosters. A kid on student loans can get the money for full COA, why not an athlete. I think the proper way to handle it might be like student loans. the first couple of year maybe you don't get the full COA, but a portion. If you're still performing academically, then that money goes to full COA as a Jr. and Sr. It might also take some of the pressure off of athletes that leave early and aren't sure things.