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New scholarship rules for wealthier conferences on the horizon? :

A seven-member steering committee with the NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors is working to provide wealthier conferences with “a range” of autonomy — namely the freedom to provide athletes the full cost of scholarships — and hopes to have a new structure in place by August, said the board’s chair, Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch.

Rutgers is paying an $11.5 million exit fee to leave the ACC and join the Big Ten.

The winter storm moving through the South this week has caused schedule changes.