Conference USA schools ready to adjust to change

[Harry]

DALLAS — Conference USA schools are prepared to pay their student-athletes a full cost-of-attendance beyond their athletic scholarship, following the lead of the Power Five conferences pushing for autonomy within the NCAA.

Calling the task part of "the most challenging time in college athletics," at C-USA Football Media Day on Wednesday, C-USA commissioner Britton Banowksy said his league's universities are ready to adjust to change. He said presidents at C-USA universities support the move to pay their student-athletes full cost-of-attendance because it is "the right thing to do, and it does not obviously violate the principles of the collegiate model."

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[ColoradoEagle]

Seems like a preemptive legal move.