Schools like Tulsa want assurances with Power Five deal

[Harry]

The University of Tulsa, the American Athletic Conference and schools and leagues just like them would like two assurances coming out of last week's big NCAA announcement about Power Five autonomy:

One is maintaining the football scholarship limit of 85.

The other is continuing the current form of shared governance.

If granting the ACC, the Big 12, the Big Ten, the Pac-12 and the SEC legislative autonomy due to their expansive revenues means those leagues can add football scholarships, that would create a competitive imbalance with which schools in the AAC, Conference USA, the MAC, the Mountain West and the Sun Belt would not be able to keep up.

And if the Power Five leagues are allowed to make their own rules while schools in other conferences are kept under a broader (stricter?) NCAA umbrella of governance, that could create a gap so wide that college athletics would be virtually unrecognizable.

Read more: http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/johnehoover/john-e-hoover-smaller-schools-like-tulsa-want-assurances-with/article_b65ff912-51bb-5bdc-b3e9-8038afa5ee30.html

[EagleD]

Good arguments.

[Arkstfan]

As it stands today... there isn't much to worry about but there is plenty of time for someone to try to muck it up.