New Superdivision, Different Rules for Different Sports? The Enlightened Spartan: New Superdivision, Different Rules for Different Sports?

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

New Superdivision, Different Rules for Different Sports?

The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics provided some provoking thoughts with respect to further study of the wealthiest athletics programs (Michigan State among them) in the Big Five conferences (Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, Pac 12, SEC) creating a new subdivision for Football Only.  The ES new title for such a division?  How about "Division I-Haves"?  You may recall the ES discussion on this earlier this year.

What is most interesting to the ES is the note to consider different rules or conferences for different sports, acknowledging the different realities of a football player vs a field hockey player.  Read here.


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