MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — The good news for college football coaches, athletics directors and university presidents, among others? The topic of scheduling − whether to play eight or nine conference games each year − has finally taken a backseat at SEC spring meetings.
The bad news? A new and perhaps even more polarizing issue has arisen.
The NCAA, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC and Pac-12 all recently voted in favor of a settlement in the House v. NCAA case. In abbreviated terms, the settlement is set to result in the NCAA paying former athletes about $2.8 billion in back damages, according to the USA TODAY Network. It also sets the groundwork for schools to directly pay athletes moving forward as a term of the settlement stipulates that schools will share with them in revenue.
“I think that’s what we’re here for, right? To try to figure that out,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said Tuesday at the first day of the 2024 SEC Spring Meetings. “There’s a lot of speculation and a lot of narratives out there that are loose, that may not be true. We’re here to figure that out.”
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Added Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer: “I think it’s just getting all the information. We hear things, you read things. I know that it’s still in process right now, so trying to understand where it’s really at and having that communication where we’re all in a room together and really hearing the facts. Trying to separate what is real and what isn’t real, I think that’s where it starts.”
With athletes set to get a slice of the revenue − at least $20 million to start, per the USA TODAY Network − athletic departments are expected to take cost-cutting measurements to afford the new expense. An idea…
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Publish date : 2024-05-29 09:14:34
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