Men House v NCAA/Title lX news

[OnoNoKomachi]

I'm starting a mega thread of House v NCAA news. I will try to keep it updated. Everyone feel free to discuss and add your own information.

Will Alabama cut sports?

“That’s men and women. If you look at the numbers for us at the University of Alabama, with our 19 sports outside of football and men’s basketball, we lost collectively almost $40 million. We funded that through our revenue from a football and men’s basketball standpoint.



“So potentially, which one specifically, if I’m just saying this in general: if I’m a swimming student-athlete. If I’m a tennis, I’m a track, any of those sports– those are really important to our universities– we want to compete in them. I can’t stress that enough. But there also will have to be decisions made because there’s not an unlimited supply of money like some believe."



Still, later in 2024, speaking to reporters at that year’s SEC spring meetings, Byrne made clear that while the Olympic sports were costly, Alabama wanted to keep all of them, if possible.



“Obviously, you don’t want to do (cut sports) ,” Byrne said. “You’ve seen Loyola Marymount, you’ve seen a couple of other schools since COVID who had reduced sports, but obviously that would be the last thing we want to do.”

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

How Oklahoma is preparing for House

They laid off a bunch of people in the athletic department for starters.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

Penn State to share money with all athletes

Men's gymnastics actually isn't getting the least! That's men's tennis.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

There has never been a better time to be a lawyer with an interest in college sports

Winner: Billable hours​

As the saying goes, billable hours are undefeated. That's certainly true with the House settlement. The class action counsel, led by Jeffrey Kessler and Steve Berman, are expected to receive a whopping $484 million for their work in bringing the class-action lawsuit to completion. Considerable money has been spent by the NCAA and House defendants on attorneys, too. And, of course, there will likely be more lawsuits to come -- especially from a Title IX angle -- once the schools begin officially paying athletes. There's never been a better time to be a lawyer with an interest in college sports.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

Golden Age for Title lX lawsuits

Law firm lining up to sue because 90 % of the NIL $ will go to football players.

 

[GEMINAM]

is there anywhere that people can see how the money will be divided amongst the sports in each school? Does each school decide how to split up the money?

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

is there anywhere that people can see how the money will be divided amongst the sports in each school? Does each school decide how to split up the money?

Each school is deciding how they will divvy up the money. The Penn State article goes into a little detail.

Most schools will give 90 % or more to football and men's basketball.

Title lX does NOT apply to NIL money at this stage. There will likely be lawsuits over that, but to start with it doesn't.

 

[cuuf]

I am really waiting to see if NIL will now be enforced.

 

[GEMINAM]

Each school is deciding how they will divvy up the money. The Penn State article goes into a little detail.

Most schools will give 90 % or more to football and men's basketball.

Title lX does NOT apply to NIL money at this stage. There will likely be lawsuits over that, but to start with it doesn't.

Hopefully I don't sound dumb when asking this: Just trying to understand some talk I have heard. With this money that is allocated to each sport, is this money to be used how the coaches see fit? Or is it just to be used to pay the athletes directly? I guess what I am confused about is, now that ( going to use gymnastics since this is a gymnastics group ) they can give up to 20 scholarships out now, but if their budget stays the same how does it help? Or does it? Or if the money each team gets from the % allocated to them is now what can be used to fund more scholarships? Hopefully this makes sense.

 

[cuuf]

Scholarship money and revenue money are different. Revenue money is more akin to NIL than scholarship. It is money that gets paid directly to the athlete. Now the athlete could turn around and use it to pay tuition but it is not considered a scholarship that is funded by the athletic department. So if a program says they are going to fund 20 scholarships, that is independent of revenue money. Of course I can also see an athletic department saying we are only going to fund 12 scholarships but will give you a little more revenue share. Now I am not sure if coaches will be able to allocate revenue money how they see fit, but I imagine it will depend on the university. I can see where if coaches were responsible, they would say of the revenue money I get, I am going to give most to the star athlete and less if any to the gymnasts that don't compete. Or athletic departments might take a top-down approach and say this is the formula we are using to allocate revenue money, and everyone gets an equal share. I don't really envy athletic directors right now, trying to figure out all this and maintain the beast of football and basketball. If that makes sense.

Its also why I could see many athletic departments to take a "lets see how this year plays out" approach before we start making any adjustments. I believe UCLA AD just said that.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

Most of the money will go to football and men's basketball.
At this point the revenue money is not subject to Title lX.

The Penn State article had the planned breakdown for Penn State:

Per NIL-NCAA, it’s been estimated that Penn State will spend 91% of that $20.5 million on football and men’s basketball. Men’s hockey comes in third with an estimated $394,839 available to pay its athletes, then wrestling with $310,241.

Women’s hockey and women’s volleyball are expected to receive $83,794 and $79,371 respectively, while women’s basketball is estimated to have $63,218 to pay its athletes. Men’s tennis is set to receive the least amount with just $15,064, an average of $1,674 per player.

Women’s soccer will receive $61,440 with the men getting $39,825. Baseball has $53,323 to use, while softball is estimated to have $47,991. In short, each sport at Penn State is getting some sum of money to share among its athletes.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

Coaches association urges legislation to protect non revenue sports in the House era

 

[RedBirdie]

Most of the money will go to football and men's basketball.
At this point the revenue money is not subject to Title lX.

The Penn State article had the planned breakdown for Penn State:

Per NIL-NCAA, it’s been estimated that Penn State will spend 91% of that $20.5 million on football and men’s basketball. Men’s hockey comes in third with an estimated $394,839 available to pay its athletes, then wrestling with $310,241.

Women’s hockey and women’s volleyball are expected to receive $83,794 and $79,371 respectively, while women’s basketball is estimated to have $63,218 to pay its athletes. Men’s tennis is set to receive the least amount with just $15,064, an average of $1,674 per player.

Women’s soccer will receive $61,440 with the men getting $39,825. Baseball has $53,323 to use, while softball is estimated to have $47,991. In short, each sport at Penn State is getting some sum of money to share among its athletes.

After football and men's basketball, wrestling, both hockey teams, and women's volleyball are their most successful sports. Not sure how the rest of the sports shake out.

Men's basketball isn't particularly successful, but revenue sports operate in a different world