Big 10 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)

Big 10 SAAC,

We are looking for some IMPORTANT feedback from you all!

We have been asked to do some research on the student-athlete perspective regarding player-agents NCAA rules in the sports of BASEBALL and MEN'S ICE HOCKEY. NCAA employees Steve Duffin of Men’s Ice Hockey Committee and Rachel Newman of Baseball Committee are the ones who are seeking the information. Below are the questions they are looking to get answered:

1. Are baseball and men’s ice hockey student-athletes in favor the NCAA opening the rules to allow free representation of student-athletes by professional agents?

2. If SAs, after being drafted, were now allowed to have agents negotiate with the professional sports organization (i.e. Yankees, Angels, Blackhawks, Bruins) without sacrificing their NCAA eligibility, would that be beneficial? Would the SAs be appreciative of that? Would there be a negative effect?

3. If a hockey player is drafted by team X, would they like the ability to have a representing agent negotiate with team X throughout the college career?

4. How serious is the problem of SAs being taken advantage of by advisors/agents or getting mad information from the advisors/agents currently?

Thanks everyone! Please respond to Lauren Cochlin by March 20th (sorry that is a quick turn around-- we were just notified of this). Thank you in advance for all your hard work!

What are YOUR thoughts about the new addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten Conference?

How will this affect your sport? The level of competition? Time spent traveling? What are your thoughts?

Sources: Maryland, Rutgers to join Big Ten The University of Maryland's Board of Regents on Monday voted unanimously to accept an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference and leave the Atlantic Coast Conference, a source told ESPN on Monday.

Welcome to the NEW Big 10 SAAC page!

This page will have THREE major functions:

(1) To get relevant Big 10 and NCAA issues/information to all of you Big 10 student-athletes
(2) To RECEIVE FEEDBACK and be an open forum for discussion of NCAA and Big 10 legislation and hot topics/ issues directly affecting your experience in the Big 10
(3) To share and spread ideas to make YOUR campus SAAC better; talk to other student-athletes from other Big 10 schools, network, share and spread ideas to improve your campus SAAC and the overall student-athlete experience!

Great meeting today! Excellent discussion of future conference wide community service initiatives, nutrition education and other student-athlete well-being issues, as well as campus SAAC updates to hear what's going on around all of the Big 10 SAACs!