Power Five Granted Autonomy

[Infield Infidel]

 
 
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/11321551/ncaa-board-votes-allow-autonomy-five-power-conferences

The autonomy measures -- which the power conferences had all but demanded -- will permit those leagues to decide on things such as cost-of-attendance stipends and insurance benefits for players, staff sizes, recruiting rules and mandatory hours spent on individual sports.
The power five leagues (the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC and Pac-12) could begin submitting their own legislation by Oct. 1 and have it enacted at the January 2015 NCAA convention in Washington, D.C. Key early issues are expected to include full cost-of-attendance stipends worth up to $5,000 per player; four-year scholarship guarantees; loosened rules involving contact between players and agents as well as outside career pursuits for players; and travel allowances for players' families to attend postseason games.
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Areas that will not fall under the autonomy umbrella include postseason tournaments, transfer policies, scholarship limits, signing day and rules governing on-field play.

 

 
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/8/7/5966849/ncaa-autonomy-power-conferences-voting-rules
 

 
 
Who can make their own rules?
The power conferences can make their own rules, but those rules will also be available to smaller schools. This would make sure strong programs in those conferences — UConn basketball, for example — wouldn't be put at a recruiting disadvantage. But it would also ensure smaller schools that can't afford these benefits don't have to pay them.
However, there will also be rules that are passed by all of Division I that will live outside of the autonomous structure, including rules regarding scholarship limits, time demands, and athlete health and wellness.

 
This is the voting structure for autonomous measures
 

 

[SoxJox]

Originally raised in a somewhat different fashion here.