What Happens to College Sports After the House Case is Settled

[swingline]

All the way with a red-hot poker.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[Neutral Corner]

Vexed by House v. NCAA's huge settlement, AAC officials shift to survival mode in college athletics' new world

"Frustration and disappointment are probably the couple of words you hear from a lot of us outside of the Power Four," North Texas athletic director Jared Mosley told CBS Sports on Thursday. "Just because a lot of this was kind of sprung on us ... the fact we're going to now have to take a significant chunk of this [back pay] to what we've been told is going to be 90% Power Five football and basketball players, it's just hard to reconcile how we're taking current opportunities and services away from our students for a problem we didn't necessarily create."


Aresco noted that some adjustments to how settlement payments would get calculated could ease the burden on the AAC. A memo obtained by Yahoo Sports set the AAC's potential cost at more than $8 million per year, or more than $500,000 per member, over the next 10 years. This as the Group of Five is also set to receive a smaller piece of the new ESPN contract signed with the College Football Playoff, despite far more revenue overall. "To go backwards at a time that the contract more than doubled is kind of absurd," Tulsa athletic director Rick Dickson said. "So you have that double impact of ... a reduction in the growth of revenues, and we're given a disproportionate share of the bill."

 

[micropolitan guy]

P4 to G5: "Pay me now or pay me later. Wait, pay me now, AND pay me later."

 

[Neutral Corner]

P4 to G5: "Pay my bills, benches."

I hope the smaller schools who are worth a damn double the price of body bag games. Or more.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The moment I became completely cynical about college sports was in the late 80's. Colorado State brought in a basketball coach named Tiny Grant, who was extremely good at his job, He won two conference championships at CSU. After his first year, coming off a 20 win season, he pulled the scholarship on an engineering major who rising junior because the kid was not quick on defense and had his minutes sharply reduced the previous season.

How many schools were going to take a kid with only a year of eligibility left after he sat out a year? It is also hard to transfer all your credits after three years into a new program. The kid was also from outside Colorado. I don't know the financial situation of the family and what financial sacrifices they would have to make to keep him at CSU.

I've always found the online argument of "if you pay players and make them employees, that means they can be fired if they don't play well," to be one of the more ridiculous arguments.

I always responded with, "what do you think cutting a player from the team or running them off is? A firing."

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Yeah, this isn't going to be over once the settlement goes through. There's going to be Title IX lawsuits and other lawsuits.

At least the way the system is now, schools can plausibly deny they're treating athletes unequally by just blaming the collectives for pay disparities.

 

[Big Circus]

The Big 12 is about to get Red Lobstered:

 

[Neutral Corner]

What could possibly go wrong?

In other news, I find it amusing that the Big Ten has done away with the two division format. The two highest ranked teams will meet in the conference game. Given the expansion, this means that a team is going to come in 18th in the B1G. Hearing the wails of the 15th through 18th teams should be fun.

 

[dixiehack]

What could possibly go wrong?

In other news, I find it amusing that the Big Ten has done away with the two division format. The two highest ranked teams will meet in the conference game. Given the expansion, this means that a team is going to come in 18th in the B1G. Hearing the wails of the 15th through 18th teams should be fun.

As fed up as I am with all the conference bloat and carnage, a promotion-relegation scheme could suck me right back in. Good luck in the MAC Purdue!

 

[tapintoamerica]

The Big 12 is about to get Red Lobstered:

I know nothing about finance for the ultra rich. Explain this one for me. If a private equity firm gets a 20% stake in the conference and is the only outside investor, would it by definition have enough clout to order the dismissal of financially underperforming members?

 

[ChrisLong]

Before I realized they were investing in "conferences," not individual schools, I was wondering if Alden Global, for example, could sell the stadium, farm out the games to a local high school facility, and slash the number of scholarships. You know, just like it does with newspapers.