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NCAA is shutting down now so big deal. U Kentucky will be for profits soon. UCLA, USC, Colorado, Az St, Stanford, Texas will split into 5-10 private local teams per school.

Like the old timer's statement goes:

"Be careful what you wish for!"

Both sides here are at fault.

And the result will be good for some but bad for a lot lot more.

At this point, I would not be surprised if this whole thing falls a part. So the revised filing says colleges will have the "option" to grandfather athletes. Not sure that goes far enough to save this thing. I guess we will see.

the bottom line here is if a school opts in (and most will), the money for revenue share has to come from somewhere. so if schools don't cut rosters, they will take the money from elsewhere in the budget. either way, someone is going to get the short stick.

it's pretty straight forward really.

Jeez, we really need to get sports out of the schools. This is such WOKE nonsense. Sports should all be private enterprises and not tied to schooling.

You are talking about something cultural. When have sports NOT been a part of schools? It's not happening in my most humble and respectful opinion. Many schools have museums dedicated to their sports. There are sports in middle school, high school, and college. What does "woke" have to do with anything? Sports in schools have been around before that term in it's current sense existed.

Many kids are willing to pay to play and that is on top of their tuition. Some schools now have sports fees that they charge the whole student body.

If the two sides stray from Judge Wilken's orders (go back to the drawing table and find a way to reduce the harm to athletes currently on rosters), this mess could wind up before SCOTUS as another NCAA Sherman Act case. One of the sides might have to get creative to generate that result. For now, Wilken has notably left the antitrust path open for argument:

...the Court finds that, because merely setting roster limits is not a per se violation of the Sherman Act but rather is subject to review under the rule of reason, and because Defendants have proffered procompetitive justifications for them, it is not clear that setting roster limits violates the Sherman Act.

lay of the land

penntoday.upenn.edu

What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA | Penn Today

Karen Weaver of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, an expert on college sports and higher education, discusses the NCAA settlement agreement and the effect it will have on student-athletes and college sports overall.

Link:penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-recent-a...

Defund thw NCAA. No communism!

He's trying to make a mockery of MAGA but in turn makes himself to look like a complete fool.

Update from Ross Dellenger:

sports.yahoo.com

NCAA's House settlement revised in hopes of placating judge; her decision could shake up college sports forever

@YahooSports

The NCAA and power conferences are revising rules around roster limits in hopes of appeasing the judge in the critical college sports case.

Link:sports.yahoo.com/college-football/brea...

Hey, 👋 there’s Valby in that photo.

The faster non-revenue sports leave the NCAA, the better off they'll be. I'd say "Track & field should lead," but T&F hardly ever leads, and when it does, nothing good follows. So swimming and, idk, golf should lead!

jamesgmartin.center

Niche Sports Should Leave Colleges — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

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The May 2024 settlement in House v. NCAA was the most recent significant step towards an employee model for collegiate athletes. Reactions to the settlement varied widely across sports and…

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First of all, ALAB!!!

Secondly, the only real answer is to remove so much of the money from college sports. They should all go to the D3 model.

This year’s NCAA basketball season/tournament was terrible. Kids moving from team to team, coaches moving around. Stupid. I guess the Boomers had to ruin one more institution before they rode off into the sunset.

So a 1:55 male 800 runner (and 3:52 1500 was cut from a SEC school? He also has no range either above or below- 16:02 5k XC, 10:01 steeple. Who cares?

Who cares??? It's a dumb system that needs complete implosion.

For the record, it's not just the stars that are getting paid. $2.8 billion is a lot to go around - I'm on track to receive a few thousand despite having never qualified for NCAAs and not competing at a P5. I don't think the allocation has been unfair, if that's what you were getting at rojo.

That said, I was also firmly in the bucket of a potential cut in college (scholarship athlete, a couple all-conference finishes, but no wins and no NCAA qualification), and I would be pretty upset if this was going through when I was competing.

Ultimately, it comes down to the transactional nature of higher education in general right now. Students don't go to college to learn, they go to college to upskill to land a good job, because nowadays you need a bachelor's to do anything besides manual labor. Institutions don't work to provide an education for students, they work to provide them with skills - even liberal arts degrees these days are glorified job training programs.

Throw on the amount of money being exchanged (one student represents $300k+ of revenue for a large private university, while a college degree represents millions of career earnings to a student) and the relative importance of something like a revenue drain sport drastically goes down.

Colleges offered those programs because students cared about enrichment, and vice versa - replace that with soulless career development and the only sports (and athletes) that matter are those that can make money - and in cross country and track the list of athletes that can actually make money is pretty short.

I'm not sure what the solution is, because it's not like colleges are really acting against their students' wishes. It's easy to blame it on "evil, money hungry administrators" but the truth is that the student body as a whole WANTS institutions to focus all of their resources on providing them with skills and career opportunities, because of the desperate need for a college degree in almost every desirable field. Cross country and track are essentially the equivalent of doing a minor in dance or medieval studies - enriching, educating, and valuable for personal growth, but NOT valuable from a career perspective.

A suit like this is just the final result of years and years of undervaluing personal development in favor of human capital in higher education (which itself is the result of years and years of undervaluing the same things in society as a whole).

So, capitalism then?

Pot calling kettle black here. For most of the human time sports were not a part school. There was physical exercise classes, but they were very different from the WOKE sports of your humble opinion. Also I don’t follow your logic: there are lots of things in middle schools, high schools, and colleges. School shootings happen in all these places as well, does that mean it’s right: post hoc does not equal causation. Sports are WOKE because they are just a way to subvert meritocracy in schools. Instead of a student getting in because they have the best grades, they get in because of their “skills” running around a track fast or spiking a ball. How are these skills relevant to being a better factory worker in the coming American Manufacturing Empire??? Look, if sports or so important, let the free market decide: stop propping them up with our public schools that my TAXES pay for!!!