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Last June, a month after the landmark House settlement was agreed to, NCAA president Charlie Baker told a group of athletes and administrators assembled in Atlanta that he’d like to see guidance on a national standard for how Title IX fits into revenue sharing.
“What we really need on this one, in particular,” Baker said, “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.”
Be careful what you wish for, Charlie.
The Department of Education finally delivered upon that request on Thursday, though the guidance isn’t what many within college athletics were expecting.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which oversees Title IX enforcement, said in its guidance that revenue share payments would be considered “athletic financial assistance” and thus should be divided “proportionally” between male and female athletes. This is significant because many athletic departments were not planning on divvying up that $20.5 million revenue share sum proportionally but instead giving the lion’s share to the revenue-generating sports football and men’s basketball.
To get you up to speed on what it all means and the potential ramifications, here are the key takeaways.
How could this impact your favorite school?
The easy answer is if your favorite school follows the guidance, it will have less money available to directly pay football and men’s basketball players than it may have been anticipating if the House settlement is approved and goes into effect in July.
For instance, if your school was planning on using 80 percent of the $20.5 million sum on football, that’s $16.4 million. If that football number dropped to say 50 percent to be proportional, it…
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Author : John Talty
Publish date : 2025-01-17 18:18:00
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