Amateur College Football Officially Dead: Judge OK's $2.8B settlement, paving way for colleges to pay athletes

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Hopefully the U takes into account that nearly all of it's media revenue is football derived, even if it is derived from the OSUs, PSUs, etc, and pays football players accordingly.

But this is the U so women's crew participants will be getting $500k per year.
 

hopefully this eventually kills off the bullshit collectives. Schools can pay. No need to grift off fans.
 

swede2 said:
Hopefully the U takes into account that nearly all of it's media revenue is football derived, even if it is derived from the OSUs, PSUs, etc, and pays football players accordingly.

But this is the U so women's crew participants will be getting $500k per year.
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We’re gonna have a larger than proportional amount for hockey which will impact football.
 



I'd be very curious to hear a statement from Dinkytown Athletes, as to how they are going to structure their NIL deals to Gopher athletes to ensure they pass muster with the new NIL Go clearinghouse.

hint hint @GopherLady a chance to get the scoop before local/national media figure out how big a deal this aspect of the settlement is
 

MilosRevenge said:
The U is paying football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball and men's hockey players.
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And I believe the percentages have been known well in advance, something like: football 70%, MBB 10%, WBB 10%, Mens Hockey 5%, Womens Volleyball 5%.

That's of the total allowable $20.5M, which is the starting "cap" for the 2025-26 season. That "cap" will grow each year from there.
 




GopherGrit said:
I'd be very curious to hear a statement from Dinkytown Athletes, as to how they are going to structure their NIL deals to Gopher athletes to ensure they pass muster with the new NIL Go clearinghouse.
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I have been wondering the same thing.

A while back I heard a lawyer working with an athletic department say it is expected the clearinghouse will be highly automated, but there was great uncertainty on what parameters would be used.

Also, is the clearinghouse actually expected to validate the deals before they are official or any payments are made?

It seems many are skeptical the clearinghouse will hold up under legal challenges anyway, so it will be interesting to see how/if this works in the next year or two.
 


This is the end of college sports as we know it. I am happy for the kids. That said, as a fan I have now gone from paying for recruiting sites, buying all the extras, watching all the talk shows, etc. to being a fan still but at a much more "I still cheer and care but outside of Saturdays, I just won't give it much more of my time fan."
 

Bring back the Axe said:
Any attempt to artificially limit how much a player can earn via NIL will be doomed
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What do you mean by artificially?

Many very successful sports leagues have a cap on total player salary.


I have read that Congress is considering federal legislation that will limit the NCAA from further antitrust lawsuits.
 



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