I knew there were other cuts beyond dropping some sports
NCAA & Power Conferences Lobbying Juggernaut
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Silly Donovan
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My fear is that many schools will now have to raise tuition and reduce scholarships, be they academic or other for worthy students to compensate former athletes. Many are misinformed that the money that schools make from their sports programs go into someone’s pocket when in fact they go to support scholarship, research and other programs that keep colleges afloat and help actual students in need.
Schools will do whatever they need to to keep making money.
Lower birth rates in the U.S will start impacting colleges and universities soon. This may not impact the most selective private universities and flagship state colleges as much but will have an impact on many less selective private and state schools. Not sure what the impact on high level athletic budgets will be but it is something that schools will have to be prepared for.
Redenbacher
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Parents and non-athlete students alike will revolt against this. Parents aren’t going to pay extra tuition so the Kadary Richmond’s of the world can buy a new Mercedes.
The elite academic schools will just get out of D1 sports altogether. Schools who can profitably run their basketball and football programs as standalone businesses will stay in. Everyone else- good luck.
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There is nothing stopping the same NIL donors from contributing directly back to university, if they chose to continue to support NIL. Many are/were likely donating to schools athletic dept before anyway.
Some will, but it won't matter as academics & D1 athletics are inter connected. Many won't care as long as their US News rankings go up.
There is nothing stopping the same NIL donors from contributing directly back to university, if they chose to continue to support NIL. Many are/were likely donating to schools athletic dept before anyway.
Roster caps, revenue sharing, collectives: What's on agenda for SEC meetings?
The state of college athletics, present and future, will be the main topic in Florida.
www.nytimes.com
Here is a part of the article.
Roster caps
This sets up to be a major topic. The settlement calls for the end of scholarship limits, such as 85 for football, 13 for men’s basketball and 11.7 for baseball. In their place will be roster caps — but nothing has been confirmed about what those will be for which sport and whether the caps will be NCAA-wide or conference-wide.Football coaches have been concerned for some time their roster cap will be 85. Right now, many programs have 120 or more players, liberally using walk-ons for depth and practice players. NFL teams, meanwhile, operate with 53-man rosters during the season.
But as one SEC coach pointed out recently to The Athletic, NFL teams can sign free agents during the season to replace injured (or ineffective) players. College teams need their players enrolled when the fall semester starts and can’t bring in new players. So football coaches will push for the roster limit to be higher or for something akin to practice squads.
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College football's next big change: Could walk-ons be eliminated?
Basketball coaches wouldn’t seem to be as affected, as long as the roster caps stay around 13 for men’s teams and 15 for women’s teams. It’s not likely a team can keep more players on the team in the transfer portal era anyway.
But the other sports, especially baseball, might be a free-for-all. If the roster cap stays at the current 35, programs that care enough to spend for more players — LSU, Vanderbiltand Mississippi State come to mind — would seem to have a huge advantage.
The counter is that if schools care enough about a sport to spend more on it, they should have that advantage. A school could choose to spend its resources on certain sports but scale back on others.
The idea behind it is more scholarship money going to more players but athletic departments still being able to cut costs by not having as many (or any) walk-ons. It’s just one of the big changes wrought by all this and just in time for the SEC power brokers to convene and start figuring out what it all means.
College football's next big change: Could walk-ons be eliminated?
What could be next for scholarship limits in college sports? We should know more soon.
www.nytimes.com
Things may have gotten a little better, butc ts been long knoen D1 football walk-ons generally get treated like second class citizens...beat up in practice against bigger players, more likely not to report injuries, and don't get much coaching recognition.
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Regardless of the additional cost of athletics, colleges are facing a reckoning. Costs have gotten so ridiculously high — even at state schools— that a large percentage of the public are now wondering if it’s worth it. Even now, many kids and families are saying no. Or are looking to community colleges as a way to delay the high cost and give time for kids to decide what they really want. Do you really need a college degree to work at most non- descript white collar jobs? Maybe a business or a well-paying job formally considered blue collar are better bets. I see this in my own family. My daughter chose community college to begin a career in health services. My nephew dropped out of a traditional college to go to culinary school. Unlike my generation, a four year degree is no longer a no-brainer.
Add lower birth rates to this issue and you see the quandary schools are beginning to face. High athletic budgets are just one — and I would argue a small — part of the equation. It will definitely mean cutbacks everywhere. I don’t think we can point to athletics as the key factor of the enormous change that’s coming in higher education.
Add lower birth rates to this issue and you see the quandary schools are beginning to face. High athletic budgets are just one — and I would argue a small — part of the equation. It will definitely mean cutbacks everywhere. I don’t think we can point to athletics as the key factor of the enormous change that’s coming in higher education.
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