NCAA NCAA settlement a historic day for paying college athletes. What comes next?

[GEMINAM]

What do you guys think about what was proposed today for the roster limits? What keeps a school from saying 4 girls were in jeopardy of losing their spots so they don't count against our roster...

 

[cuuf]

Im not sure I fully understand what the proposal was regarding those athletes. Im waiting to read more press to get a better understanding. In general I think there is plenty opportunity for the handful of large programs (UF, LSU, OU, UCLA, etc) to optimize their rosters because they have the resources to do it. For the lion share of other programs there is a natural limitation for things like that to happen.

 

[RedBirdie]

Looks like, if the judges accepts this revisions, schools can grandfather in current athletes if they want to, but don't have to. Athletes cut because of roster limits will take their grandfather status with them. But as with anything related to NCAA generally and the House settlement in particular, who the heck knows how it will actually all shake out.

According to a filing made Wednesday in the House settlement case, schools will be permitted to grandfather-in a range of athletes: (1) those currently on a roster; (2) those athletes who have already been cut this year; and (3) those high school recruits who enrolled at a school after committing to a roster position only to see it eliminated. As Yahoo Sports reported last week, the revision is not mandatory but is at each school’s discretion — a move that is seen as a compromise from the power leagues to the judge’s wishes.

The grandfathered-in athletes are exempt from roster limits at any school in which they participate. For instance, if their current school chooses against retaining them, those athletes who qualify to be grandfathered-in can transfer and remain exempt from their new school’s roster limits.

NCAA's House settlement revised in hopes of placating judge; her decision could shake up college sports forever

The NCAA and power conferences are revising rules around roster limits in hopes of appeasing the judge in the critical college sports case.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[cuuf]

Gator Nation Football Podcast

Pretty interesting podcast where they interviewed the Gators Athletic Director. Roughly the first hour of the podcast is all about the settlement and how UF and broader collegiate landscape is handling it. A couple of things that I heard:

• If I heard it correctly, this only applies to the SEC, but the first $2 million of extra scholarships have to come from the $20 mill revenue share. Plus the first $2 million of Austin payments also has to come from the revenue share amount. This is before revenue payments to athletes.
• The SEC expects lawsuits around Title IX, but they do not believe they will be successful and are distributing revenue funds without Title IX considerations
• UF is not following the revenue split model that is in the settlement for back-pay (75% football, 15% Basketball, 5% Womens Bball, 5% other sports). Instead they are basing it around the revenue that the sports have generated in each sport for UF. (This is good news for Gator Gymnastics). But they will not share their revenue split publicly because they consider it a trade secret or potential competitive advantage.
• The settlement is good for 10 years, every year there will be a 4% increase in the revenue allocation and every 3 years they will do analysis to determine if adjustments need to be made.
• The AD believes that the settlement will only work if the new sports commission has teeth and does police NIL deals as intended. So no more "come to LSU without a scholarship because we will pay you NIL" But he did point out that schools including UF were signing transfers before the end of the month so they could front load NIL deals and avoid scrutiny that is supposed to occur starting July 1
• While UF hasnt figured it out completely, all Universities have to figure out now how to cover a $20 million dollar expense. UF is apparently very low on charging student fees which sounds like one of the avenues that schools will use to subsidize the $20 million shortfall. Along with increasing fees that fans pay.