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It’s time for the breakoff.
It’s coming sooner or later, this tectonic shift in college athletics that will formally sever the Power Four — the SEC, Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 — into its own NCAA football division. That is, if the NCAA is even involved. It’s certainly not needed. The Power Four can just as easily buy an office building, set up a few departments, fill it with administrators, and govern itself. Long-term, that could be where all this is headed, too.
But for the moment, let’s just consider college football’s competitive landscape in the wake of this week’s massive settlement in the House vs NCAA antitrust lawsuit, which isn’t quite finalized but was approved Wednesday by the NCAA’s Board of Governors. Former NCAA athletes are set to receive a whopping $2.8 billion in damages over a 10-year payment structure. Going forward, a large chunk of athletic department revenues at Power Four schools — perhaps $20 million a year or more — will go to current athletes. Albeit with some serious belt-tightening, they’ll survive both those hits. Small-school athletics can’t be so sure.
The revenue sharing model would be an opt-in for schools, but big ones wouldn’t be able to compete in recruiting without participating, and small ones, by and large, won’t have a dime do to so. Which is why a breakoff in football makes more sense than ever.
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In decrying the ramifications of revenue sharing with athletes, Power Four athletic directors have warned they might have to cut some of the sports that lose money. Meanwhile, the AD’s at schools such as Creighton and Seton Hall in the Big East don’t want to hear the whining. Those schools don’t even have a football program, but they’re getting saddled with House vs. NCAA settlement damages, too. If, in…
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2024-05-23 13:57:51
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