NCAA president seeks federal help for ‘national standard’ on Title IX as questions mount with House settlement

ATLANTA – NCAA president Charlie Baker is looking to the federal government for help in solving one of the most pressing questions surrounding the landmark $2.8 billion House antitrust settlement.

How Title IX fits into the House settlement, which will pave the way for a new collegiate revenue-share model if approved, has loomed over college athletics since agreed to in May. Title IX requires universities to provide equal opportunities for male and female athletes, which has typically been reflected in the number of scholarships offered to each. 

With schools opting into a revenue-share model expected to cost approximately $22 million annually, how that number will be split up amongst the athletes has prompted great debate. In speaking to college athletes at the NIL Summit at the College Football Hall of Fame, Baker preferred a federal solution – likely from the Department of Education – rather than the NCAA telling its member institutions what to do.

“This is a really hard question for schools to answer on their own for a whole bunch of reasons. The biggest one most schools have said to us is … the rules around equity when it comes to Title IX and around men’s and women’s sports ought to be relatively consistent from school to school and conference to conference,” Baker said. “That’s going to require a national standard. If we create a national standard at the NCAA, the problem with that would be if anybody doesn’t like it one way or the other … it would be challengeable in court. 

“What we really need on this one, in particular,” Baker continued, “is the feds to give us guidance that says this is what a national standard with respect to Title IX and rev share should look like.”

To this point, the Department of Education has…

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Author : John Talty

Publish date : 2024-06-24 17:47:10

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