The Worm Continues to Turn - NCAA Settlement

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This article just came out which discusses the new administration and its impact on the upcoming NCAA settlement:

Trump Has a Funny Way of Protecting Women’s Sports

Its behind a paywall, but the TLDR version is the Trump administration under the claim of protecting womens' sports from trans athletes has now removed any Title IX restrictions on distributing the new athlete revenue payments from the settlement. This means that womens sports will likely receive little to no revenue further exacerbating the support gap between men's and women's sports. This also reinforces the market that women's sports are not as relevant as male sports which in theory Title IX was intended to help mitigate.

Some interesting tidbits from the article:

• Of the over 510,000 student-athletes, fewer than 10 were identified as trans. In comparison, 42% of the 510,000 are female athletes that will be impacted by this rule change.
• Georgia plans to pay football players 75% of the $22million, 15% to mens basketball, 5% to womens basketball, and 5% to the rest of the sports.
• Over 100 female athletes in B10 and SEC sent letters to the respective commissioners mainly expressing concern about the disparity in NIL money between male and female athletes requesting a meeting. The letters to date have been ignored.
• Women's sports currently receive about 15% of sports media coverage but it is a growing upward trend

Idk this is one of those macro events that can really impact women's gymnastics in the long term. It could exacerbate existing inequalities between different programs. It might not do anything? I am particularly worried about schools in the ACC especially Cal who still is fighting for program support.