$2.7 Billion Break for Power Five Schools

[@KNIGHT-T1ME]

Thanks Kurtz

[@johnnyhutchinson5394]

I'm just starting not to care anymore. I'm getting squeezed out of the market and am not interested in NFL/NBA 2.0 when collegiate sports morph officially.

[@MisterDigDug]

An important fact in my mind is the largest conferences and biggest brands should be on the hook for a larger share of back pay. They had the “top” athletes with the greatest visibility.

[@MisterDigDug]

@@pwho405 sure I do. Do you think the athletes from Arizona St would get the same pay deals as those from Ohio St or Georgia? Those schools get more revenue, more media exposure, more 4 & 5 star players, so they should pay more of the back pay.

[@jerrywille2176]

I understand that the settlement would amount to about $200 per player..... just wonder how much the lawyers get or do they get any money in this settlement.

[@MichaelSmith-xb5cp]

And the average NIL is $350 per player, so all this destruction of College football, conferences, bowls, and tradition for less than $1000 per pawn....Mission accomplished

[@SvdSinner]

What bizarre math are you using? $2.7B divided by roughly 60 teams with 45 players per team is $1M/football player. If it also includes every Varsity sport for men and women, let's assume that is 40 times the people to share with. That is still $25K/player. Where do you get $200?

[@heartbreak25]

Lawyers usually get 30%.

[@ThatGuyz82]

@@SvdSinnerthey did this little thing called "calculating previous players that qualify as well."

[@dacokc]

@@SvdSinner now go back like 50 years or whatever they are trying to do..

[@FrankDunlevy]

This guy seems unaware that the NCAA has no “Money of its Own” , and therefore any settlement money paid by the NCAA will result in equal amounts being deducted from future distributions to the Member Schools?? Also when you talk about “compensating” all the DIV 1,2,3 Athletes over the last 50-60 Years that will result in minuscule payouts as there were approximately 3 Million Athletes Playing all the Sports at over 400 Schools , so a $2.7 Billion Settlement is less than $900 apiece??

[@timmyotool71]

Great show.

[@happynotredamefan3736]

NCAA will probably expand playoffs and have that money cover it

[@Mr.Ed_Wayner]

If NCAA has to pay, that money has to come from somewhere. In this case it’s from the NCAA Tournament which means less per unit payouts.

[@edcummings9511]

The athletes are going to get a quarter of a million dollars a year for 4 years. $20 million at divided by 85 is roughly a quarter of a million dollars. There's no way

[@jamesbusald7097]

Imagine if they had started letting players get sponsors in the 70s or 80s. There were a lot of infractions (everybody in the SWC) that would never have been punished. Players at OSU could have gotten sponsorships from Eskimo Joe's or some other local sport supporters. The dam is going to break now; we basically now have a semipro minor league feeder to the NFL and CFL.

[@garyalabama]

The schools pay dues to NCAA. The schools may just leave the NCAA and let the NCAA go bankrupt. They may never get any money

[@phays10]

There are now only two power conferences. It is only a matter of time before everyone but those two are left. The CST proposal is the only thing that would save college sports but that won't happen.

[@joshgrothues7871]

How is it great ? Just because a small percentage of schools can pay a small percentage of players? It creates a wider gap and could eliminate many of the g5 . 20 million revenue sharing is too much .

[@xmositoxc147]

What did you think was going to happen when the B10 and SEC generated revenues that are 2x the Big12 and ACC. That they would pocket the profit? The money results in either, better facilities, 2x pay for FB and BB coaches, or 2x pay for players.... or any combination of the above. If Big12 schools want to reaming competitive they will need to funnel all their funds into 1 sport.. BB makes sense since it requires less money.... but it will be a decision each Big12 and ACC school will need to make.

[@dentonyoung4314]

The whole "amateurism" model should have been chucked 100 years ago. It's a shame it took a bunch of lawsuits to shatter it. That being said, my concern is how this will affect the Olympic sports. I don't want to see swimming and water polo and softball disappear because all the money is going to pay football players.

[@MichaelSmith-xb5cp]

It was chucked 125 years ago, it started out at athletic club level and morphed into various pro leagues that eventually conglomerated into today's NFL and lesser pro leagues. Amateur scholastic based teams were far more popular to spectators until well after WW2, although college football was almost banned several times in the eatly 1900s. The athletic clubs were formed by young men could not qualify for collegiate life, or aged out. It's students that started football, not the Universities, it took many decades to be accepted by the administrative level.

[@michaelbee2165]

Yep, I'm hopeful this will resolve this mess so that CFB can concentrate on figuring out its governance and calendar and all the NIL a transfer portal conundrum. No one likes the NCAA, but we need this situation stabilized, and the universities/college left in good financial position, so the game we love can continue. But I am still looking for some indication that all those non revenue generating sports will be able to continue. We want colleges to have those sports available, and yes, those programs form the foundation and training for our national Olympic programs. So again, I'm hoping our colkeges and universities are left in a financial position such that they are still able to fund those programs. I can't imagine any university administration and AD who wouldn't want to.

[@scotttaranto7870]

Title 9 will keep olympic sports alive.

[@amac701]

It may keep some alive, but some will perish.

[@charlesling7919]

They shouldn't get anything but a scholarship and a stipen. I just don't get this love for paying amateur athletes any money when it's the universities that are left to up grade facilities and invest into programs to allow athletes to show case their attributes.

[@deathsavearcade3951]

How does any of this fall on the schools at all? To me it has to all fall in the ncas for not allowing NIL deals. Furthermore, NIL has been touted as Not pay to play, funds that don’t come directly from the school as they aren’t employees. So HOW IS IT IN THE SCHOOLS for NIL they missed out on. Moving forward. 20 million? Who the fuck picked that number. This will clearly kill the acc and big 12. The number should be like 5 million MAX. Also if the school is paying now, then does NIL go away? Why are the schools paying if they get NIL not from the school? If they get it from the 20 mil then I guess the NIL banks just give the money to school to pay them directly. This seems like a good reason for all school to leave the NCAA and make the super league with 80 teams and then let the ncaa pay it all back or claim bankruptcy

[@SAS_Fullertubes]

Wow

[@richardtaylor2361]

the ncaa should just close its doors and let the different conferences run their sports as they choose. If the sec- big conferences can be semi pro then fine. smaller conferences would be based on Finacial needs only and be able to enforce academic standards. If donors wanted to pay some players for actual nil, they could.

[@richardoneal1055]

The House case isn't going anywhere for the same reason I can't go back and sue a former employer because they replaced me with a person they pay more money to. The House case, even if they win before an ignorant jury, won't stand up on appeal.

[@michaelbee2165]

Check out the video. It's about settling the case before it goes to trial, and it sounds likely a settlement will actually be reached. If the parties agree to the details of the settlement and the judge approves, there is no trial. Nobody wins, and nobody loses. There is, therefore, no appeal.