Scoggins: Mark Coyle could frustrate some Gophers coaches with revenue-sharing plan

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Per Chip:

Coyle intends to spend to the cap and says he explained his strategy to head coaches of his 22 programs with honesty and transparency.

In an interview, Coyle confirmed publicly for the first time five teams that will receive revenue-sharing payments: football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball and men’s hockey.

Additionally, Coyle revealed he is adding 11 new scholarships — six for women’s programs and five for football. The costs of those scholarships will be deducted from the $20.5 million cap under House settlement rules.

P.J. Fleck’s football roster will grow to 90 scholarship players. The women’s programs that will receive at least one additional scholarship are volleyball (two), hockey (one), gymnastics (one), softball (one) and soccer (one).

www.startribune.com

Mark Coyle could frustrate some Gophers coaches with revenue-sharing plan

The Gophers AD has been transparent with his coaches about the difficult choices being made.
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Go Gophers!!
 

Haven't read the full story but glad to hear they aren't planning to spread the revenue sharing super thin. I know a lot of us were concerned that the U would feel obligated to share revenue with non-revenue sports.
 

Most schools are doing 5 sports with Hockey Schools doing hockey and non-hockey schools doing baseball. If things continue, I don't see the U fielding a baseball team to far into the future, unless they are ok being noncompetitive.
 

I am totally good with this. I do wish Men's hockey got a little more of the pie, but that's down to personal bias on my part.
Football should get the lion's share. Our basketball program is utterly diseased, but has no hope of getting back to quasi-relevance without some cash flow.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Most schools are doing 5 sports with Hockey Schools doing hockey and non-hockey schools doing baseball. If things continue, I don't see the U fielding a baseball team to far into the future, unless they are ok being noncompetitive.
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Would suck to see baseball go away but it is tough to compete in this climate where you are forced to spend a big chunk of the year practicing indoors in a sport that really needs to be outside.

Hopefully the U finds a way to continue to field a program, would be unfortunate to go the way of Wisconsin which is the only Big Ten team that doesn't have a baseball program.
 


BleedGopher said:
Per Chip:

Coyle intends to spend to the cap and says he explained his strategy to head coaches of his 22 programs with honesty and transparency.

In an interview, Coyle confirmed publicly for the first time five teams that will receive revenue-sharing payments: football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball and men’s hockey.
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That part cracks me up.
 



I personally would like to see nearly all of the money spent on FB - it is, afterall, what creates the financial windfall for the department. I think I saw that Iowa is spending 76 or 78% on FB but is being coy with the number of scholarships that will be funded for FB.

I don't care one iota for any non-revenue or women's sports. MBB used to be my favorite team, any league, sport or level but along with the program being in the doldrums forever and the game of basketball turning into a competition to see who can jack up the most threes the quickest, I don't watch and don't care. Frankly, in the new world of college sports, there ought to be football, and maybe men's buckets that are paid, and everything else ought to turn into non-scholarship, pay to play (the student athlete pays to play).
 



swede2 said:
I personally would like to see nearly all of the money spent on FB - it is, afterall, what creates the financial windfall for the department. I think I saw that Iowa is spending 76 or 78% on FB but is being coy with the number of scholarships that will be funded for FB.

I don't care one iota for any non-revenue or women's sports. MBB used to be my favorite team, any league, sport or level but along with the program being in the doldrums forever and the game of basketball turning into a competition to see who can jack up the most threes the quickest, I don't watch and don't care. Frankly, in the new world of college sports, there ought to be football, and maybe men's buckets that are paid, and everything else ought to turn into non-scholarship, pay to play (the student athlete pays to play).
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Federal laws need to be repealed.
 

swede2 said:
I personally would like to see nearly all of the money spent on FB - it is, afterall, what creates the financial windfall for the department. I think I saw that Iowa is spending 76 or 78% on FB but is being coy with the number of scholarships that will be funded for FB.

I don't care one iota for any non-revenue or women's sports. MBB used to be my favorite team, any league, sport or level but along with the program being in the doldrums forever and the game of basketball turning into a competition to see who can jack up the most threes the quickest, I don't watch and don't care. Frankly, in the new world of college sports, there ought to be football, and maybe men's buckets that are paid, and everything else ought to turn into non-scholarship, pay to play (the student athlete pays to play).
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Get me another Gopher mens hockey natty before I die, please Coyle.
 

swede2 said:
I personally would like to see nearly all of the money spent on FB - it is, afterall, what creates the financial windfall for the department. I think I saw that Iowa is spending 76 or 78% on FB but is being coy with the number of scholarships that will be funded for FB.

I don't care one iota for any non-revenue or women's sports. MBB used to be my favorite team, any league, sport or level but along with the program being in the doldrums forever and the game of basketball turning into a competition to see who can jack up the most threes the quickest, I don't watch and don't care. Frankly, in the new world of college sports, there ought to be football, and maybe men's buckets that are paid, and everything else ought to turn into non-scholarship, pay to play (the student athlete pays to play).
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The latest published U athletic dept financial report is for the 2023-24 school/fiscal year and found here: https://gophersports.com/documents/2025/1/14/Minnesota_FY24_NCAA_Online_Report_-_FINAL_01.14.25.pdf

(Published on Jan 2025)

Page 39 has the total by sport summary for revenues. Football revenues at $90.67M is
- about 75% of the total rev for all male and female allocated revenues combined
- about 60% of the overall total rev (including those not allocated by sport/gender)

Page 29 has the by sport summary for "media rights" revenues, which is by far the largest rev line item at $50.88M. Football accounting for $45.79M is about 90% of that.


And I only expect those numbers to become more and more skewed towards football, as the media rights line I expect to be closer to $80M (?) for 2024-25 and quickly growing to nine figures.
 

BleedGopher said:
Per Chip:

Coyle intends to spend to the cap and says he explained his strategy to head coaches of his 22 programs with honesty and transparency.

In an interview, Coyle confirmed publicly for the first time five teams that will receive revenue-sharing payments: football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball and men’s hockey.

Additionally, Coyle revealed he is adding 11 new scholarships — six for women’s programs and five for football. The costs of those scholarships will be deducted from the $20.5 million cap under House settlement rules.

P.J. Fleck’s football roster will grow to 90 scholarship players. The women’s programs that will receive at least one additional scholarship are volleyball (two), hockey (one), gymnastics (one), softball (one) and soccer (one).

www.startribune.com

Mark Coyle could frustrate some Gophers coaches with revenue-sharing plan

The Gophers AD has been transparent with his coaches about the difficult choices being made.
www.startribune.com www.startribune.com

Go Gophers!!
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I have never read the bolded part anywhere else.

I think Scoggins got this wrong or whomever in the U athletic department told him that wrong. Or they incorrectly think that.

Everything I've read about the House settlement says that scholarships have nothing to do with the dollar cap for revenue sharing.

In other words, you can choose any number between 0 and the total maximum roster limit over all sports you sponsor for how many scholarships to give, assuming you meet any minimum requirements by the NCAA for being DI/FBS or conference minimums, and then you can spend up to $20.5M this coming school year in revenue sharing, as you please.

(And that cap will increase around 4% each year.)
 



GopherGrit said:
I have never read the bolded part anywhere else.

I think Scoggins got this wrong or whomever in the U athletic department told him that wrong. Or they incorrectly think that.

Everything I've read about the House settlement says that scholarships have nothing to do with the dollar cap for revenue sharing.

In other words, you can choose any number between 0 and the total maximum roster limit over all sports you sponsor for how many scholarships to give, assuming you meet any minimum requirements by the NCAA for being DI/FBS or conference minimums, and then you can spend up to $20.5M this coming school year in revenue sharing, as you please.

(And that cap will increase around 4% each year.)
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Could be wrong but I read the same sort of analysis from an Iowa sports writer.
 

Word said:
Get me another Gopher mens hockey natty before I die, please Coyle.
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Anything accomplished on the field will be done by the players and coaches. During Coyles tenure he has at best been a non-factor, at worst mishandling all public communication and creating more friction and strife than anything else. The best things that can be said about his tenure, is he hasn't sexually harrassed any employees, so an upgrade from MegaTongue...the lesser known transformer, and he doesn't actually seem to be a plant from the Univeristy of Wisconsin actively worked to destroy the department, so an upgrade from MACturi. "The Bar" at the U is very low.
 


swede2 said:
Could be wrong but I read the same sort of analysis from an Iowa sports writer.
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OK, tried a little bit harder and found it. Lot of articles reporting that up to $2.5M of any new scholarships (above the old limits) counts against the cap.

Also, previously schools were allowed to contribute almost $6k per year to student-athletes as so-called "Alston awards". For any athletes where they keep doing that, those also count. The below quote also makes it seems like the total hit against the cap has a ceiling of $2.5M.

frontofficesports.com

Revenue Sharing Is Here, but Most Sports Won’t Get a Cut

Even though most Olympic sports teams aren’t expected to earn rev-share dollars, they'll get more scholarship spots.
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Though scholarships are considered a different form of compensation than revenue-sharing, up to $2.5 million of new scholarships count against the $20.5 million revenue-sharing cap. (So do the $2.5 million of “Alston payments,” or the cash benefits of up to $5,980 per student per year allowed through the NCAA v. Alston Supreme Court case).
 

Word said:
Get me another Gopher mens hockey natty before I die, please Coyle.
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How does this revenue sharing and cap thing work for schools like Quinnipiac or Denver or North Dakota? Can they just go all-in on hockey and make the Big Ten hockey programs that share an athletic department with many revenue sports obsolete?
 

fmlizard said:
How does this revenue sharing and cap thing work for schools like Quinnipiac or Denver or North Dakota? Can they just go all-in on hockey and make the Big Ten hockey programs that share an athletic department with many revenue sports obsolete?
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As far as I know, any DI school can "opt in" to the settlement, meaning that they can share up to $20.5M.

I am not aware of any restrictions about having to share it over a minimum number or sports, or for that matter any balancing required between genders.


I would hope that schools (ie. especially smaller schools that largely don't actually have revenue sources like Big Ten schools do) are not allowed to increase student fees in order to pay for rev sharing.
 

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