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...weeks ago, the NCAA called a special convention of its top football schools (those classified Division 1-A, including the Ivy League) to respond to a threat by the College Football Association (CFA), a splinter group composed of 61 leading Division 1-A members. Originally formed to tighten recruiting rules and academic standards within the NCAA, the CFA has been bucking for greater control of college football's destiny, most prominently in the area of television contracts...
Specifically, the CFA threatened to go against NCAA rules by signing a television contract for its member schools with the National Broadcasting Company, which has not televised college football since 1964. The NCAA recently signed a $263.5-million agreement with the Columbia Broadcasting System and the American Broadcasting Company giving these two networks sole permission to televise college football until 1985. Oklahoma and Texas, the leading spokesmen for the CFA, have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, maintaining that the televising of a school's games was a right belonging solely to the individual school. The CFA schools asked last...
Rather than lose the CFA schools--and their tremendous television appeal--entirely, the NCAA provided for a compromise solution at the special convention. The organization offered a restructuring of Division 1-A that would guarantee the CFA schools a majority in the division, to presumably run their football businesses as they please...
...result, the Ivy League and nearly 40 other schools--those the CFA saw as obstructing its path to power--have been left out in the cold, forced to drop down to the less-distinguished Division...
...convention's vote to eliminate the 12-sport rule "guarantees more ultimate TV revenue for the CFA and the other Division 1-A schools," Reardon said...