My take:
Eventually…eligibility isn’t going to be a thing anymore. Students can take classes as long as they’d like, so why can’t guys play in college as long as they’d like?
Congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines for winning the last real national championship there will ever be in college football. The whole sport has gone to absolute shit.
College sports has always been a shit show, now, it is taking it to a whole new level of a shit show.
So what’s next. A collective bargaining agreement, a CFBPA, a salary cap to try to keep some sort of competitive balance?
Very legit questions.
I know a lot of people aren’t going to like it, but this is the right thing. They beat the shit out of their bodies to make tons of money for other people. They deserve to be paid.
The most corrupt sport in the nation is going to get even more so.
So, how does this get spread around?
How much money does the power 5 schools get, does Toledo, W Mi and those conferences get the same?
Does this bypass the Title IX requirements?
Money spread across all sports?
It’s an important step but it is only the first and brings a lot more questions.
I agree.
The NCAA brought this upon themselves. They refused for years to get ahead of this. It will be chaos for a while until the conferences figure it out for themselves.
It’s eventually going to
NCAA Football will become its on league. Or at least most of D1.
Say the top 64 schools separate from the ncaa.
Form the own league.
So it will be “The Michigan Wolverines Sponsored by the University of Michigan”
They will be a minor league professional league with a set cap and contracts and payroll separate from the NCAA.
Because those ~64 schools or so are the only ones that make money from football.
The settlement is basically the Power 5 running a train on the other conferences. That settlement amount paid is paid moreso by the little conferences than the Big 5. Total garbage.
Here are the numbers: The NCAA’s payment of back damages in lost NIL revenue is expected to be $2.7 billion over a decade, with $1.6 billion of that coming in reduction of NCAA revenue distribution to member schools. Of that $1.6 billion, roughly 60% is proposed to come out of the pockets of programs in those 22 non-FBS leagues, with 40% coming from the power conferences. Those 22 leagues, (the “CCA22”) would like to see those percentages pretty much flipped: 58% of the reductions coming from the Power 5 leagues and 42% from the rest of Division I.
According to documents from that group obtained by Sports Illustrated, the percentage of revenue loss under the current NCAA model calls for a revenue reduction of 0.61% for autonomy-five schools; 0.95% for Group of 5 schools (the American, Mountain West, Sun Belt, Mid-American and Conference USA); 1.32% for FCS schools; and 1.68% for “I-AAA,” or non-scholarship football schools on the FCS level.
The CCA22 proposal calls for an even percentage of reduction among all those Division I subgroups at 0.88%. Under that plan, the cost to autonomy-five schools would increase about $435,000 per school per year over what the NCAA proposes. The other subgroups would see an average decrease from the proposed reduction of about $106,000 per school per year.
You don’t need to see the balance sheets to know that an additional $435,000 hit at Texas is far less impactful than a $106,000 gain at Morehead State. Those percentages matter to the schools that aren’t privy to the geyser of football revenue—and don’t have athletes on campus who are worth millions in NIL money.
I read this elsewhere, and was absolutely baffled. How on earth can this possibly be justified? Really, what is the argument for having power five conferences pay a lower percentage? I think this is the beginning of the end for alot of smaller football programs.
Not surprised… i said awhile ago that college football needs to stop pretending and just admit that it is the nfl farm system already… get ahead of it and embrace being the minor leagues at this point
This is not going to work out.
Cant wait not watch college sports again . Every year kids can leave unless they sign a contract. Seems like big mess waiting to just crack a little more
This is why we’re not far off from the NFL getting involved. Colleges are starting to screw with the product. They won’t be able to stop it - the schools are far too rich and powerful for that - but they’ll come to some sort of understanding. Actually it’s probably worse for the UFL, since instead of playing in that league guys like that might choose to stay in school.