What Happens to College Sports After the House Case is Settled

The thread on BCS expansion is now in its fourteenth year, I think this thread will last at least 10 years until the term of the initial settlement lapses and will exceed 747 pages.

 

To answer the question in the thread, I don't know. But my interest in them will probably decline.

 

I guess that Microville Tech can take some of the money left from the Pac-12 (-10) and make a 20 million dollar payroll for a couple years but does the school have any idea what how to do that? How much will the school get from the new television contract?

 

If athletes become employees, how is eligibility determined? Or is that even a thing anymore? I’m actually kinda OK with an athlete not taking up a seat in a class that could be filled by someone who actually wants to be there. It will just be interesting to see if college sports just become a forever minor league, with kids who are too small or too slow for the next level still able to keep finding a place to play for Clemson Tigers Football Club LLC or whatever. Or does college sports just become a very lucrative 22U league?

 

As with golf, too much change has me and others disinterested.

 

My interest in college sports is already down to just the NCAA Division I basketball tournaments, which I can’t quit because they’re so much fun.

Other than that, I’m out.

 

I think the 22U league is probably where we are headed. For years, college administrators have said sports success helps boost enrollment. But if the only connection to the school is the traditional name of the team, will that still apply?

 

Hopefully to its demise.

 

Bill Farley goes into published budgets to try to figure out what will happen next.

Finding a foothold: First pass at how schools could deal with the House settlement proposal

TLDR - Non-revenue sports are in trouble.

 

I thought schools could not participate in NIL. Maybe that will change with the settlement. Financials for the new TV contract have not been released, as far as I know. And OSU needs that $20 million for operations, not NIL, which (to me) is money wasted with no return on the investment.

There is no way OSU can play football at what will be the new highest level, 40 or 50 teams. It would be financial and competitive suicide. But as long as postseason access remains in all other sports, I'm fine with that.

 

I have been out of athletics for 10 years now and I really don't miss crap like this.

Slowly but surely, everything that was good about college athletics is being morphed into something awful.

Natural conference rivalries are being thrown out for television market share.

I can't imagine anyone thought that the NIL thing would turn into the travesty that it is.

The transfer portal is simply open free agency. The era of a fifth-year senior staying at one school is over.

It use to be the Haves and the Have Nots in college athletics. Now it is the Haves, Have Little and Have More.

I spoke with coaches from my old school -- a mid-major -- and they said its budget had shrunk by 15% over the last three years and the scholarship totals for the Olympic sports had dropped significantly. They were trying to keep up with less resources. Administrative staff was bailing for lesser jobs at bigger schools and mid-major staffing (except in athletic training) was bare bones. One coach lost his best tennis player -- a freshman -- to another small school for $500 in NIL money.

Pretty soon, I envision schools eliminating athletics all together because the arms race isn't worth it. Once the first school makes that decision. . . and gets hammered for it. . . many schools could follow.

 

That could happen, but schools could also attempt to form conferences based on mutual disarmament pacts, imitation Ivy Leagues if you will.