Interesting article, but again no details whatsoever.
by VaDblDmr (2024-04-19 13:12:33)
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For example, "Figures are murky and are steadily evolving, but many administrators believe that any settlement agreement comes with an annual per-school revenue-sharing figure of $15-20 million."

Great! Now who does it go to? Just football players? Football and basketball players? All athletes? And do schools get to deduct the value of scholarships from that figure?

"For the ones with the money, there is plenty of money to compensate the athletes and share it with the women’s sports."

Okay, so if the money is shared with women's sports and scholarships are deducted, what truly is left?

And here comes the cat out of the bag -- Kessler also questions why football players should miss out on compensation because they hold the responsibility of funding the department with the revenue in which they generate. “They should not receive anything so that the money can go to the golf and tennis team?” Kessler asked. “Think of the composition of those teams and think of the composition of the teams that are giving up the money. What is that about? Why is it their responsibility to do that?”

IOW, men's olympic sports can pound sand, but we'll still fund women's olympic sports because Title IX requires it. Got it.

Presumably, the counterpoint is that if coaches and staffs just cut their salaries in half, then schools could fund men's olympic sports also. And that might be true, but I'd like to see some notional figures to lay all of this out.




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