PULLMAN – As the athletics ecosystem department at Washington State changes, most notably cutting field events from its track and field program three weeks ago, more clarity is also beginning to surface about the impact of the House v. NCAA settlement at WSU.
In a Thursday news conference on Zoom, most of which she spent discussing the track and field cuts, WSU Athletics Director Anne McCoy confirmed that in the wake of House settlement, which paves the way for universities to begin directly paying athletes and went into effect on Tuesday, the Cougars are allotting $4.5 million this year for the football program.
That includes scholarships, stipends and NIL, she said. McCoy did not provide a number for WSU’s basketball programs, saying she didn’t know it off hand, but offered to let media know later on.
That means that while WSU’s football program may be getting what McCoy called a $4.5 million “benefits pool,” only some of that will be dedicated to institutional NIL payments – and she declined to detail those numbers, citing competitive advantage reasons. It’s unclear how the figure stacks up nationally, but it figures to be competitive in the new Pac-12.
Other nuggets from McCoy’s roughly 30-minute news conference are as follows:
• WSU’s apparel contract with Nike, worth about $2.3M annually, expired last week. Asked whether it stands to get renewed, McCoy said, “Stay tuned on that. I think there will be official news shortly.”
• On a similar Zoom news conference in April, McCoy said the school was about two to three weeks away from announcing new lodging availabilities in Pullman, potentially alleviating the issue of pricey hotels for football game weekends. But on Thursday, McCoy said she still wasn’t ready to provide more details, saying, “I think we’re close…
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