Post by acutrackfan on Jun 30, 2023 10:25:11 GMT -6
Matt Brown reports that a few days ago, the NCAA released proposed legislation that could put some additional onus on a school moving from FCS to FBS. The most striking thing on the surface is a increase on the fee to move up from $5,000 to $5,000,000! That IS striking on the surface, but ACU has some donors who love ACU football enough to plop that down in an instant. However, there are a few other pieces to the legislation that has more impact over the coming years: all FBS schools must field a minimum of 16 sports and all countable sports must give 90% of the allowable scholarships, including the "equivalency sports".
ACU is in good shape on the number of sports -- with the addition of women's golf, the Wildcats will be fielding 17 sports this fall. T&F is obviously the linchpin in this because they count as 6 sports (m/w indoor track, m/w outdoor track, m/w XC). However, some, if not all our "equivalency sports" -- where scholarships can be segmented -- give less than 90% of the allowable scholarships. T&F is budgeted for 70-80% of the allowable total. Passage of this legislation will mean that an FBS school must give a minimum of 210 scholarships in 16 sports.
So, if this legislation passed and if the UAC were to continue to attempt to move en masse to FBS, that would mean ACU adding 22 new football scholarships, but also additional scholarships in several other equivalency sports. Interesting conundrum that I fully believe Zach Lassiter is capable of solving.
ACU is in good shape on the number of sports -- with the addition of women's golf, the Wildcats will be fielding 17 sports this fall. T&F is obviously the linchpin in this because they count as 6 sports (m/w indoor track, m/w outdoor track, m/w XC). However, some, if not all our "equivalency sports" -- where scholarships can be segmented -- give less than 90% of the allowable scholarships. T&F is budgeted for 70-80% of the allowable total. Passage of this legislation will mean that an FBS school must give a minimum of 210 scholarships in 16 sports.
So, if this legislation passed and if the UAC were to continue to attempt to move en masse to FBS, that would mean ACU adding 22 new football scholarships, but also additional scholarships in several other equivalency sports. Interesting conundrum that I fully believe Zach Lassiter is capable of solving.
