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^ The College Football Association (CFA) is an organization
9 composed of 62 of the nation's top college football powers.
The CFA includes all the country's major conferences, except
the Pac Ten and the Big Ten, and all the major in
aepenaenis sucn as iNotre uame, Fenn State, Pitt, Florida
State and South Carolina.
On August 21, the CFA signed a four-year, $180 million
television deal with NBC to broadcast games in which CFA
schools appear, beginning in 1982. The CFA (who ratified the
agreement 33-20 with five abstentions) gave teams until Sept.
10 to affirm their approval.
Last week, the CFA extended their deadline until Sept. 18.
That date coincides with the hearing of a class-action suit
brought by the University of Texas against the NCAA. Suits
filed by the Universities of a Georgia and Oklahoma are
scheduled to begin on Thursday, Sept. 17.
All three suits were filed to resolve one of the major issues
at hand ? who owns the property rights (i.e. television
marketing rights) of the NCAA member schools?
rne property rignts belong to each university," USC
Athletic Director and Head Coach Jim Carlen commented. "I
don't think there's any question about that."
But there's more to the dilemma than property rights.
^ The NCAA has already worked out separate television
agreements with ABC and CBS that guarantees each exclusivity
for games agreed to be televised, in return for a
large sum of money. The authority of the NCAA to be the
agent for all its members is put into question by the CFA and
its proposals.
The CFA was organized to act within the boundaries of the
NCAA according to Dr. John Moore, USC Associate Athletic
Director and Business Manager, to give the big-time football
powers more self-determination. "The CFA was formed to
w act as a lobbying group within the NCAA," Moore said. "It
was an attempt to get a like group together with a com
monaniy 01 iooiDaii proDiems."
What has happened seems simple. Costs have gone up.
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some cases need, a bigger piece of the financial pie available
from t levision revenues. This money now comes from
"free" network television, which pays a large amount of
imoney to beam college football to your home or dorm each
ifall Saturday afternoon.
The rules "governing TV contracts, limiting the number o'
television appearances by any one team over a specifiet.
period of time, and the recruiting guidelines used to lure
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The CFA has proposed changes which they feel are fairer
and more efficient. The CFA has proposed to continue giving
8 percent of TV revenues to the NCAA. Changes, however,
include raising the minimum GPR requirements from 2.0 to
2.25, spelling out guidelines of academic progress, and
'waiving the "three visit" rule applied to trips to entice
.prospective scholarship recipients.
"How can I get to know a boy in three visits?'' Carlen asked
in defense of allowing coaches unlimited visits. Carlen feels
that the athlete's parents, high school coach and principal
can successfully regulate visits from schools so that they do
not become bothersome, even going to the point of banning
certain schools from seeing a boy, as Carlen has done to
several pro teams at Qairolina.
At this time, C arolina is playing a waiting game. " The
university is in the position of evaluating all the information
we have and will have before the deadline," Moore said.
4 4We're kinda in a holding pattern like everyone else in the
country right now."
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The presidents of each University have the actual voting
power in the CFA but one doesn't need to guess how much
miiuence tne athletic department at each school will have. "I
can give him (President Holderman) some opinions, but he's
got to determine the consequt.ices," Carlen stated.
L rlen thinks the CFA is an organization that gives the
foe oall coaches, who have to live by any rules established, a
say in what kind of guidelines are established over them.
"Football coaches have never been heard from before (on
these matters)," Carlen said. "They just never had a
vehicle."
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college football. "A reorganization is what's going to come
about out of it. I think it's needed.
"I think the days of an athletic department taking money
from the.academic departments are over," Carlen, whose
first major move at USC was to separate the athletic
department from the rest of the university, said.
"There's more than just a television issue here," Moore
said. And he is right. How will the forecasted explosion of
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television revenues, affect college football? Will there be any
effect? Will some enterprising university establish their own
cable network and shun the major networks?
More importantly, what body will set up guidelines and
restrictions to govern all college sports, not just football?
Will college football ever reach the stage of paying players to
perform at their university?
The CFA-NCAA confrontation is the first step in a series of
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years. Both Carlen and Moore expressed high optimism that
the NCAA and the CFA will be able to come to an agreement,
a business deal on a business matter, that is beneficial and
fair to both. But that, as the saying goes, may just be the tip
of the iceberg.
Only time will tell.
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