NCAA giving up Power to Conferences?

[Darth Snow]

Big news from @dennisdoddcbs, NCAA may turnover control of the bowl games to the conferences: cbsprt.co/Hb10XE

http://twitter.com/BryanDFischer

oh man... this is a game changer... huge.

An NCAA task force is proposing sweeping changes to the postseason college football structure that would turn over the majority of oversight of bowls to conferences themselves. Documents obtained by CBSSports.com show that the NCAA Postseason Task Force would essentially transfer the legal responsibility of running the postseason to the commissioners and their leagues.

That means the power to decide the number of bowls – currently capped at 35 – and minimum qualification standards would rest with those conferences.


That possibility has produced buzz and division among college football stakeholders who are still trying to figure out what it all means following a memo sent out Friday by NCAA general counsel Donald Remy. It should be noted that the issue has little impact on and is basically not related to the current discussions among FBS commissioners to restructure college football's postseason beginning in 2014.


In that memo to the Football Bowl Association dated March 30 Remy summarized the task force's proposals: “The NCAA should discontinue its current detailed licensing system and should embrace and develop a certification system that provides assurance that minimum standards of governance and operation are in place.”

 

[NashBuff]

Looks like the death of the BCS. The B1G and P12 will meet in the Rose Bowl without interruption once again. Anyone remember the Big 8 and the Orange Bowl? Too bad the real Orange Bowl was torn down for that new Marlins stadium.