College athletes set to be paid directly by schools

[R1Letterman]

Lookie who has a big red dot in title ix

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/ne...content=static

[cjr3888]

I read a tweet where it said the settlement totaled to 2.7 billion and that the athletes eligible to participate goes back to the year 2016 and up through this year. I wonder what the criteria will be for past and current student-athletes to obtain a portion of these funds? The tweet also said that the settlement still needs to be approved by the judge so it appears it is not a done deal just yet.

I saw some of the ideas that include playing time & star rating out of high school. Major hurdle is that the smaller conferences (D2 & D3) are fighting to make P4 pay 90% which would actually make every conference pay the same percentage of their budgets.

[R1Letterman]

Why don't they apply DEI to athletics? Wouldn't that be interesting?

Found out that in 2012 that 5 pct of student athletes were black female.... in 2021 that number ballooned to a whopping 5 pct, oh wait...err was still just 5 pct.

[CajunVic]

They arent following title 9 now: (and took 50 years to claim they care by starting softball allegedly for that reason)

Generally, Divisions II and III have more equitable spending on men's and women's athletics programs than Division I. Compared with the 23% difference in total expenses between programs in Division I, Divisions II and III both have an 8% spending difference. Over the past five years, this gap has increased by 3 percentage points in Division I and 1 percentage point in Division II, while remaining the same in Division III.

this looks like you made it all up

[Turbine]

A goal now is to find a way to institute spending caps.

[R1Letterman]

this looks like you made it all up

An alleged increased focus on title 9 led to a greater disparity, just like a concerted pro vaxx campaign led to more infections, geaux figure.

[Duckster]

In this new environment its a large concern ticket prices will be raised to offset these inflationary expenses. Other offsets should include study of swapping out some current expensive sports for less expensive sports to meet Title IX compliance. Read where Missouri St. will be adding acrobatics, stunts, and tumbling to offset adding more football scholarships. Not saying we need those instead of what we already have in place. But what's less expensive to operate? Universities are forced to spend a fortune on travel and support of all these extra sports teams. Just does nothing to advance football, basketball, softball, baseball, track & field. This entire new professional college sports structure is changing this into a more hardcore business environment. Unattractive choices lie ahead.

[R1Letterman]

Women's Crew has the most scholarships at 20.
Not sure the expenses if you have to bring your own boats to meets but likely no minimum amount of events you have to be in as no conference

[R1Letterman]

Also good exercise, not sure why softball "walkons" couldnt be on crew scholarships and work out with crew in offseason

[HoustonCajun]

In this new environment its a large concern ticket prices will be raised to offset these inflationary expenses. Other offsets should include study of swapping out some current expensive sports for less expensive sports to meet Title IX compliance. Read where Missouri St. will be adding acrobatics, stunts, and tumbling to offset adding more football scholarships. Not saying we need those instead of what we already have in place. But what's less expensive to operate? Universities are forced to spend a fortune on travel and support of all these extra sports teams. Just does nothing to advance football, basketball, softball, baseball, track & field. This entire new professional college sports structure is changing this into a more hardcore business environment. Unattractive choices lie ahead.

If athletes are going to be paid by the university, they should not be exempt from taxes. In fact, all benefits should then be taxed as income, salary + scholarship, ie tuition, room & board, travel, etc. Athletes want to be paid and act as professionals, then treat them as professionals. They get all the perks, now time to pay up like the rest of us.