Wow I could imagine that won't make many football players that transferred to Purdue happy. That could cut their profit share income in half. A women's track athlete
In order to balance the $ amounts certainly would seem so. How else do you take 104 scholarship players earning shares and provide equal sharing to the womens programs.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. If they can control allocation within women's sports, they will share more with the most profitable womens sports. In Utah, that would be womens basketball, gymnastics and maybe volleyball. Women with basketball profit shares in college may earn as much or more than the pros. This could also create situations where some P4 programs will chose to not use all 104 football scholarships, due to Title X pressures and also pressures from players wishing to earn more and not dilute their profit shares.
Correct me if I'm wrong, its not just the individual sports revenue, its the departments revenue as a whole that is shared capped at 20 million? So 10 million has to go to the women's sports?
I do not know the answer to your questions and I don't have time to research this. Someone that knows please share your thoughts . I was raising possibilities that could lead to unexpected side effects that will dramatically change certain directions for all of college sports. An earthquake. I just imagine some schools not increasing or even reducing the number of men's football scholarships after this plays out and/or killing off variety of nonprofitable men's sports teams outside of football and basketball.
Simple fact is that 95% of athletic programs lose a lot of money, how can they talk revenue sharing when the revenue doesn't even come close to covering the scholarship expense let alone any profit.
Thought I read that department of education is saying even if the money comes from a collective, title IX will still apply. Schools are still responsible for this money going to players.
That is the point. They lose money and now they are going to be spending the revenue that pays for the scholarships and cost of athletics as income for the athletes, thus leaving athletic departments further in debt. It isn't sustainable!
