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New NCAA rules on exhibition games

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yoda

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In May, NCAA changed the rules for DI exhibition games.

Now, any DI can schedule any other DI, DII or other for an exhibition game, and they can hold it openly and not need a waiver, as before.
And, get this, now any DI school can schedule up to THREE preseason exhibition games and charge admission.
WILL BRADLEY take advantage? I see no reason not to if you can charge admission and make it a revenue generating event.
Especially if you can host any school, even DI's... Maybe Green Bay, SIUE, WIU, or some nearby non-DI's.

And they are allowed to take a foreign preseason tour and play exhibition games EACH YEAR, instead of every four years.

One more change- as many as SIX different coaching staff members can do off-campus recruiting, and as many as four at any one time,
and they now allow high school freshmen to take campus visits.
www.ncaa.org

DI Basketball Oversight Committees proposes deregulation package - NCAA.org

The Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Oversight Committees on Friday proposed a legislative package to deregulate preseason exhibitions, foreign tours, coaching
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I would certainly take advantage of this and get 3 exhibitions scheduled . Playing these at the RC and charging 10 dollars a ticket would add revenue . Forget about renting Carver for Exb. games simply because too many season ticket holders could care less about games that do not count.
 
No reason not to do it, and if a pre-season foreign tour is viable in the athletic budget, those should be utilized every year as well. Especially with essentially brand new roster construction every year, the players need time and experience to get to know each other and bond.
 
Illinois vs Bradley at the civic center 50 dollars a ticket. I am sure people would go. Why not use something like that as a fundraiser for the NIL. If that’s possible.
 
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No reason not to do it, and if a pre-season foreign tour is viable in the athletic budget, those should be utilized every year as well. Especially with essentially brand new roster construction every year, the players need time and experience to get to know each other and bond.
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Well, there obviously is one big reason NOT to do it....

There used to be several dozen DI teams taking foreign tours each summer - even DII teams did it.

Yet- here we are with NCAA now allowing teams to take a foreign tour EVERY year and yet almost NO teams among the 364
Division I teams are doing it. I can find maybe just seven teams doing it this year.... lmk if I missed anyone.

... And the only three schools I can find who are taking a true "foreign tours" & playing summer exhibition games overseas are ones that have massive budgets.... Arizona, Michigan, Clemson.

In a little twist on an exhibition tour, Indiana is playing as the US representative in a FIBA sanctioned event in Peru,
playing only a single game on July 15.

A couple of other college teams are going no further than Canada (PURDUE) or the Bahamas (VALPO, Cincinnati, Arkansas).

There is one other foreign game (actually a men's/women's doubleheader) but it is NOT an exhibition game. It is a regular season non-conference game that Villanova and Notre Dame have scheduled for November 1, 2026 in Rome- LINK

It's likely because any dime spent going to Europe or Australia for a tour could land a better player from the portal.
 
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