Remember when we heard that Jere Morehead and Greg McGarity would like to see the SEC set a standard as far as cost of attendance stipends go?
The campaign for that doesn’t sound like it’s gotten off to a promising start.
The hotly-debated issue of cost of attendance was discussed during executive session of the Southeastern Conference Athletic Directors’ meeting here at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel on Wednesday. But according to those who were there, it lasted all of “about three minutes.”
That sounds like just enough time for Jay Jacobs to laugh and say, “you gotta be kidding, right?”
Get The Picture 
Our guys limped in to the poker pot with a weak raise holding nothing. When Jacobs pushed “all in” we folded quickly.
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What they should do is promise that UGA will always pay 1k more than the every other team. Only alabama could keep up with UGA, then the other guys would get into line.
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I think Auburn would probably bankrupt themselves happily if that’s what it took to keep up with Bama.
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We don’t want those executives to sweat through the hard stuff do we?
So with the court rulings, where are we with this? Are they just sitting on their hands until someone comes along and makes them change?
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Auburn- “do you really expect anybody to come to this shit hole for any reason other than cold hard cash? Our entire history is based upon this principle. We will ALWAYS pay more money. It’s that or die.”
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Truer words have ne’er been spoken.
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+1
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What a peer group we have..,
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I see corruption galore with this….cheaters gonna cheat.
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I do not understand the problem here. The COA is published for every school every year. If some school suddenly shoots up 5+% then they are paying players as that is not their COA.
Funny thing is this will also create an opportunity for the regular student to get an even larger loan and go into even greater debt.
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Exactly. What Jacobs really is proposing is not an actual coa stipend. He is proposing a cash supplement to the scholarship benefits. I am okay with that as long as the ADs call it that rather than either lie to the Department of Education or to its players and fellow conference members.
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I’m surprised no one has called out this “executive session” bullshit. Under what interpretation would that have been covered under executive session rules in Georgia or any state? This is not “personnel” – this is them speaking generally about remuneration of a broad class of “employee.”
Unless this is under the “litigation” exception. Aaaah, figured it out as I was typing …
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