Agree with both points.
Unsustainable. College athletics cannot support paying coaches what they pay them nor can it sustain paying players 2 million a year.
Yeah, except the NCAA is really and enforcement agency, kinda like the police. The cops don't make the laws, they just enforce them.
TV contracts are paying these schools big money. Only a matter of time before players get a piece of that pie.
I don't like to imagine that because he would have hit the portal to the highest bidder.
Im sure Freeman is aware as well. If he continues to improve, he won't finish his NCAA career at Iowa.
He had plenty of teams trying to lure him into the portal, including Kansas. Kid loves Iowa. Enjoy him the next few years because kids like him are pretty rare.
He gets 2MM dangled in his face he is gone. He would be an idiot if he wasn't.
He already gotten 7 figure offers that he's told no thanks to. The big man market is crazy right now.
I agree, somehow there will have to be unionization involved to make certain salary cap type rules legal.
If you don't have a good coach you end up having a rec league team. Good coaches mean something and it's more than just X's and O's.
I think the argument that is going to be made is that Title 9 is about equal opportunity and says nothing about equal funding/pay. That's why when the football locker rooms get a huge upgrade they don't need to upgrade a women's sport's locker room with the same upgrades legally. They just need to have the same amount of athletic scholarships available for women's sports as there are men's sports.
As they should, the fans shouldn’t be the ones forking out the money to pay these players. Pay $100 plus for single game tickets to watch players you already bought makes no sense.
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I hope his prediction is accurate. Otherwise you'll probably just see a bunch of women's sports go away.I have posted this before in another thread but TV revenue sharing is coming (probably next year). It looks like, because of Title IX, that a lot of male & female athletes would get a cut of the $15M-$22M in revenue sharing but the vast majority of the revenue sharing would be directed towards football and men's basketball.
When it comes to female sports, here are some excerpts from the linked article:
But how does Title IX apply in a revenue-sharing model?
That question remains unclear and there is ongoing litigation in Oregon that could, eventually, provide the answer.
In an interview in January, Baker said he believed that Title IX terminology is more “about equal participation” and not “so much about equal amounts.” That would open the door for a school to share more total revenue with men athletes as long as the school offers revenue to an equal number of women athletes.
In his appearance in Washington D.C., Kessler noted that he “hopes” Title IX is applied in any future athlete compensation model.
What would House v. NCAA settlement mean? A revenue-sharing model to end college amateurism
After months of negotiations in the House antitrust case, the next evolution of athlete compensation is on the horizon.
I'm not aware of a list of restrictions that they have tried.
