CBSSports.com writer Jon Solomon was at Monday's Knight Commissioner Meeting and wrote an in-depth story on the discussions, including those involving Atlantic 10 Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade. The following is an excerpt from Solomon's piece. Click the link at the end to read the story in its entirety on CBSSports.com:
It is two-thirds of Division I relying much more on NCAA Tournament revenue than the Power Five schools, who live off football dollars just fine. The Power Five conference revenue was $570 million in 2005; it's projected to be $2.8 billion by 2020, according to the Knight Commission.
"The big revenue source didn't just occur yesterday," Atlantic-10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade said. "This has been an evolution over decades that our current student-athletes just happen to see the gigantic numbers right now. We have to find a middle ground [on whether the NCAA should allow players to be paid for use of their own names, images and likenesses], but I don't think we can ignore it. I don't think we can say the Supreme Court is not going to hear the [Ed O'Bannon] case so we don't need to address it. That would be a misstep, I think, on the part of presidents, administrators and commissioners."
What has college basketball become? These are some of the talking points.
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