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...doubt there has ever been legislation before an NCAA Convention that would be more harmful to more institutions than this restructuring plan. --Bob Murphy, athletic director San Jose State University...
Essentially, the bylaw, as approved January 13, 1978, splits Division I football--the so-called football elite--into two subsets--Division I-A and I-AA. The results of this restructing plan, which Bob Murphy, the Ivy League and numerous other NCAA members opposed, had, on the surface, little impact. The old Division I was composed of 144 members. Its new equivalent, Division I-A, has 139. Because they could not meet the criteria established for eligibility in Division I-A, five schools dropped into I-AA. In addition, 28 Division II schools moved up to I-AA to form...
Opponents of the restructuring plan, like Jim Litvak, executive director of the Ivy Group Council, express a cautious satisfaction in the restructuring plan's limited effects thus far. In contrast, proponents of the plan, like Ed Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame, are openly disappointed that the NCAA membership has not been able to break apart Division I football more drastically, providing what he says would be "a very realistic approach" to national legislation of collegiate football...
Critics of the restructuring plan have charged that a new division which consisted of the top 40 or 50 football powers in the nation might do away with the 30-95 rule, opening a financial Pandora's Box which could lead to a type of professionalization of the collegiate football ranks...
...surface, the plan seems to have trivial implications. Litvak admits that there's a great deal of ego involved--a team's pride in being a part of the top college football division. Yet he calls the restructuring plan "stupid and offensive," explaining it implies that a commitment to college football means you have a big stadium and high attendance. "The plan does not ask for a measurement of commitment, it asks, does the market accept your product?" he explains...