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Sources: New college athlete compensation model may cost power schools $300M each over 10 years

The college sports industry is moving closer an athlete compensation system. At this point, it seems inevitable.
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Sources: NCAA could pay $2.7B in antitrust suits

The NCAA's national office might be footing the bill for a settlement expected to be more than $2.7 billion in the landmark House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit in hopes of reshaping and stabilizing the college sports industry, sources told ESPN.
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Found this little tidbit interesting:

(3) as much as $10 million in additional scholarship costs related to an expansion of sport-specific roster sizes — a concept previously unpublicized.
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Does that mean power conferences will be afforded larger roster sizes? In smaller counter sports, that will be a massive competitive advantage unless mid-majors follow along. It essentially will end being able to compete in Olympic sports. Baseball, for example, is 11.7 scholarships for a 40-man limit roster. If the power conferences now can give all players scholarships, talent will consolidate because who won't take the full ride versus a partial elsewhere?

So far, it also does not appear there will be any sort of divisional change as the Super League idea is still not getting traction so the chasm will simply be monetary differences. This will further the need for us to make a long term decision on football. Do we want to keep football and not compete in anything?

Do you think the Martins will be able to compete in T&F with unlimited scholarship roster sizes (no D1 limit for roster size) with their 12.6 and 18 scholarships respectively? Likewise, do you think Hannahs will be able to compete with his 11.7 scholarships versus 40 for the Vandy's and Indiana's of the world?
 
Here is the autonomy thread from back in 2014. Just went back for the laughs.

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treeman said:
@Jason Svoboda explain this to me like I'm 5
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The crux is the power conferences negotiated a settlement on behalf of the NCAA and all D1 conferences but they're ultimately letting us (non power conferences) eat a much larger portion than we should be. Even the MVC will be footing the bill for power conference athletes, essentially.

NCAA is paying 40% and then the other 60% is coming from a reduction in school distributions -- ie the NCAA tournament units. Remember, the NCAA essentially only makes money from the NCAA tournament and the media rights/licensing surrounding that. So essentially, power conference fuckfaces are having their cake and eating it too. Remember, the football playoffs is not owned by the NCAA so that entire pool of money, and where the LIONSHARE of the infringed athletes sat, will not get touched.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
The crux is the power conferences negotiated a settlement on behalf of the NCAA and all D1 conferences but they're ultimately letting us (non power conferences) eat a much larger portion than we should be. Even the MVC will be footing the bill for power conference athletes, essentially.

NCAA is paying 40% and then the other 60% is coming from a reduction in school distributions -- ie the NCAA tournament units. Remember, the NCAA essentially only makes money from the NCAA tournament and the media rights/licensing surrounding that. So essentially, power conference fuckfaces are having their cake and eating it too. Remember, the football playoffs is not owned by the NCAA so that entire pool of money, and where the LIONSHARE of the infringed athletes sat, will not get touched.
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So i know the CFP are not ran by the NCAA. But sense this is essentially back-paying athletes NIL wouldn't things like ESPNs "College Gameday" have a pretty big influence on an athletes name-image-likeness? From there i would like to see the % of P5 schools on such programs compared to G5 or FCS. The P5 are singlehandedly ruining college athletics.

I did see that the P5 is trying to reduce the number of scholarships given to football. I'd imagine it's because they are starting to feel the crunch of financing all of this and maybe they can reduce a female team or 2 and still be Title IX compliant.
 
treeman said:
So i know the CFP are not ran by the NCAA. But sense this is essentially back-paying athletes NIL wouldn't things like ESPNs "College Gameday" have a pretty big influence on an athletes name-image-likeness? From there i would like to see the % of P5 schools on such programs compared to G5 or FCS. The P5 are singlehandedly ruining college athletics.

I did see that the P5 is trying to reduce the number of scholarships given to football. I'd imagine it's because they are starting to feel the crunch of financing all of this and maybe they can reduce a female team or 2 and still be Title IX compliant.
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No doubt ESPN has been a massive catalyst in creating college sports stars. My big problem here is football is the head honcho so how the fuck is the CFP not putting money into this settlement pool? Who owns the CFP? The power conferences. So by it being siloed away from the NCAA, they are essentially privatizing the winnings and socializing the losses.

As to your second point, bingo... but they are wanting to limit the number of ships for quite a few sports because all of this shit is quickly compounding on them. It's also why you've seen some schools start shedding administrative staff because even many of the power conference schools aren't rolling in the cash like the media and influencers make it sound.
 
Added another source in a CCA22 league: "This is incredibly unfair and has a dramatic impact. I'm losing about 10% of my operating budget. Do I cut two staff members in order for money to go to Zion Williamson? Ninety percent of the money in the suit projects to go to Power 5 football and men's basketball players. The 40% payment for the power conference isn't proportionate."

90% of the money going towards P5 football and basketball players. I hope the Big East, G5, and every FCS or lower conference bans together and gives a big FU to the P5
 

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The ongoing discussions between college sports leaders and the NCAA to resolve the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) antitrust case signify a pivotal moment in the intersection of athletics and legalities. As the debate intensifies, reaching a settlement could significantly reshape the landscape of collegiate sports, potentially paving the way for fairer compensation and rights for student-athletes. The outcome holds immense implications for the future of NCAA regulations and athlete empowerment.
 
It has been logical that the Big Money power conferences wanted the total freedom to define their own rules free of NCAA intrusion.

If they bolted the NCAA, they would be widely accused of destroying the organization that facilitated their growth and success.

But if they jointly with the NCAA engineer a "settlement" which forces all of the other schools to leave the NCAA, the objective is achieved while retaining the NCAA name and market value.

It really is a well thought out strategy. And if this is not checkmate, there will be another in a series of moves coming soon to achieve the objective.

The NAIA probably loves this or perhaps some new coalition will evolve.
 
DyedBlue said:
It has been logical that the Big Money power conferences wanted the total freedom to define their own rules free of NCAA intrusion.

If they bolted the NCAA, they would be widely accused of destroying the organization that facilitated their growth and success.

But if they jointly with the NCAA engineer a "settlement" which forces all of the other schools to leave the NCAA, the objective is achieved while retaining the NCAA name and market value.

It really is a well thought out strategy. And if this is not checkmate, there will be another in a series of moves coming soon to achieve the objective.

The NAIA probably loves this or perhaps some new coalition will evolve.
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No doubt about it.

The fact the power schools were able to get football money siloed off is a genius move in itself.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
No doubt about it.

The fact the power schools were able to get football money siloed off is a genius move in itself.
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genius move...

as genius as when Don Vito Corleone and Luca Brasi met with Johnny Fontane's original manager...
 
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