Utah football: Pac-12 commissioner Scott talks NCAA reform

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott talks to the media during the NCAA college football Pac-12 Media Day on Friday, July 26, 2013, in Culver City, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

College football ? Scott believes $2,000 stipend should be part of upgraded scholarship rules.

Culver City, Calif. ? Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott sided with other major conference commissioners in acknowledging changes must be made in how business is conducted in college football, but he stopped short of saying the "Big Five" conferences should totally divorce themselves from the NCAA?s current system.

"At the end of the day, a lot of people thought realignment would be the end of the world and then the music stopped and it didn?t look that much different," he said. "I think this is going to be one of those deals."

Scott?s remarks came during the Pac-12 media day at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, Calif.

The scenario in which the Pac-12, SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten could break away and form their own super league outside of the governing hands of the NCAA sounds like a made-for-the-movies drama, but Scott believes a solution can be made without deconstructing the NCAA.

The sticking point for the big five leagues is a desire to give athletes a $2,000 stipend to help cover the cost of college attendance.

Schools in the smaller conferences have shot down the idea because they say they can?t afford it. However, Scott said he doesn?t like the idea of the smaller schools dictating what the bigger conferences do.

"Conferences like ours, with the amount of money we have coming in, we ought to update and revise how we do things," he said. "I don?t think student-athletes should be paid, but the scholarship rules haven?t changed since the 1970s and that is wrong. There has been a lot of change to college football since then and we have the means to take care of the student-athletes. It is the right thing to do."

Some fear the widening gap between the bigger conferences and the Mountain West, American Athletic Conference, Sun Belt, Mid-American and Conference USA could eventually lead to a time when the Big Five play each other exclusively.

While Scott acknowledged there likely will be fewer games against teams from the Football Championship Subdivision as the strength of schedule becomes more important in the future, he doesn?t think there will be as much of an "us versus them" scenario as some imagine.

"I don?t see any scenario in the next few years where we are only playing amongst the five," he said. "I don?t think that would be healthy. I do think we need more autonomy and more control over the structure of how decisions are made."

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Ignacio Mieres says he is looking forward to getting the season under way with new club Worcester.

The Argentine recently joined the club from Exeter and is expected to be Dean Ryan's first-choice fly-half following the departures of Andy Goode and Joe Carlisle.
Worcester have had a difficult time of it in the last few years and only narrowly avoided relegation last term, finishing just ahead of London Welsh.
However, with a number of new arrivals at the club, Mieres is confident they will turn a corner in the upcoming season and is already enjoying his change of scenery.
"You can feel the good vibes around the squad," the Argentine international told the Worcester News. "The club is, in a certain way, rebuilding itself because of so many new coaches and new players.
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Japan to mull pre-emptive strike ability in defense update

By Linda Sieg

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is likely to start considering acquiring the ability to launch pre-emptive military strikes in a planned update of its basic defense policies, the latest step away from the constraints of its pacifist constitution.

The expected proposal, which could sound alarm bells in China, is part of a review of Japan's defense policies undertaken by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, an interim report on which could come as early as Friday. The final conclusions of the review are due out by the end of the year.

The hawkish Abe took office in December for a rare second term, pledging to bolster the military to cope with what Japan sees as an increasingly threatening security environment including an assertive China and unpredictable North Korea.

Article 9 of Japan's constitution, drafted by U.S. occupation forces after its defeat in World War Two, renounces the right to wage war and, if taken literally, rules out the very notion of a standing army. In reality, Japan's Self-Defense Forces are one of Asia's strongest militaries.

The Defence Ministry will call in the interim report for a study of how to "strengthen the ability to deter and respond to ballistic missiles", the Yomiuri newspaper and other media said on Thursday.

But in a sign of the sensitivity, the report will stop short of specifically mentioning the ability to hit enemy bases when the threat of attack is imminent, the Yomiuri newspaper said.

The ministry will also consider buying unmanned surveillance drones and creating a Marines force to protect remote islands, such as those at the core of a dispute with China, media said.

"The acquisition of offensive capability would be a fundamental change in our defense policy, a kind of philosophical change," said Marushige Michishita, a professor at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies.

Obtaining that capability, however, would take time, money and training, meaning any shift may be more rhetorical than real. "It's easier said than done," Michishita added.

The updated guidelines could also touch on Abe's moves toward lifting a self-imposed ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense, or helping an ally under attack, such as if North Korea launched an attack on the United States.

The defense review may also urge replacing with new guidelines a self-imposed ban on arms exports that has already been eased to let Japanese contractors take part in international projects.

Clear guidelines for companies as to what and to whom they can sell could help Japanese defense contractors such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd seek business overseas.

Some experts stressed that the changes were evolutionary rather than a sudden transformation in Japan's defense posture.

QUESTIONS OVER HARDWARE, COST

"It's all part of a process of Japan edging away from the most restrictive interpretation of Article 9," said Richard Samuels, director of the MIT-Japan program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Still, given Japan's strained ties with China over disputed isles and how to frame the narrative of Japan's wartime history, China is likely to react strongly to the proposals, which come after Abe cemented his grip on power with a big win in a weekend election for parliament's upper house.

"No matter how Japan explains things, China will attack it pretty harshly," said Michael Green of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Although China has been a nuclear power for decades and North Korea is developing nuclear arms, Japan says it has no intention of doing so.

Support has grown in Japan for a more robust military because of concern about China, but opposition also remains.

Japan last updated its National Defence Programme Guidelines in 2010 when the Democratic Party of Japan was in power.

Those changes shifted Japan away from defending areas to its north, a Cold War legacy, to a defense capability that could respond with more flexibility to incursions to the south, the site of the row with China over tiny, uninhabited islands.

Japan has for decades been stretching the limits of Article 9 and has long said it has the right to attack enemy bases overseas when the enemy's intention to attack Japan is evident, the threat is imminent and there are no other defense options.

But while previous administrations shied away from acquiring the hardware to do so, Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in June urged the government to consider acquiring that capability.

Just what hardware might come under consideration is as yet unclear. And with a huge public debt, Japan may be in no position to afford the bill.

Japan already has a very limited attack capability with its F-2 and F-15 fighter jets, mid-air refueling aircraft and Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kit. Tokyo also plans to buy 42 Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighters, with the first four due for delivery by March 2017.

Acquiring the ability to hit mobile missile launchers in North Korea - the most likely target - would require many more attack aircraft as well as intelligence capability for which Japan would most likely have to rely on the United States, Michishita said. Cruise missiles might also be considered.

Obtaining the ability to strike missile bases in mainland China would be an even bigger stretch, experts said, requiring for example intercontinental missiles. "It would cost lots of money, and take time, training and education to acquire a robust and meaningful capability," Michishita said.

(Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Robert Birsel)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-likely-mull-pre-emptive-strike-ability-defence-004122290.html

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