Pokes Report Projects the Revenue Sharing Cost of Cowboy Football for 2025

Fictional scenarios about funds are all well and good until Title IX jumps up and tears models like that all to pieces.

Title IX implications were NOT addressed by the House Case, and that case has not even been approved. Title IX will be implemented (it ALWAYS IS - historically, look it up), and it has little to do with which sport generates the revenue. Title IX is about access and opportunities, not revenues. The source of the revenue is moot in the University decisions that I've seen over the past 25 years. The Government does not consider where the University funds come from (the State, Tuition, Endowments, Donations), they only evaluate equal opportunity.

I don't blame the ADs preparing for the most obvious scenarios, but those plans better consider Title IX

You can bet your last dollar that the $22M revenue sharing NIL money will be subject to Title IX. Any other outside NIL deals that players make ARE NOT subject to Title IX.

This whole mess is far from over.

Meh. None of this matters until transfers are abolished or very, very limited. We will get significantly "out-spent" just like we are now.

GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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Meh. None of this matters until transfers are abolished or very, very limited. We will get significantly "out-spent" just like we are now.

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well most current employment laws do not allow you to make somebody work for you (not transfer), isn't employment/compensation the crux of this whole ruling/settlement?

RodeoPoke said:

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GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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Meh. None of this matters until transfers are abolished or very, very limited. We will get significantly "out-spent" just like we are now.

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well most current employment laws do not allow you to make somebody work for you (not transfer), isn't employment/compensation the crux of this whole ruling/settlement?

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Sure, compensation is the issue. But that's not THE issue. Programs with (booster) money (outside of the schools direct control) will always be able to buy a roster thru the transfer portal - until there is no transfer portal.

GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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RodeoPoke said:

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GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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Meh. None of this matters until transfers are abolished or very, very limited. We will get significantly "out-spent" just like we are now.

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well most current employment laws do not allow you to make somebody work for you (not transfer), isn't employment/compensation the crux of this whole ruling/settlement?

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Sure, compensation is the issue. But that's not THE issue. Programs with (booster) money (outside of the schools direct control) will always be able to buy a roster thru the transfer portal - until there is no transfer portal.

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And thus transfers will still be an every day occurrence with the highest bidder retaining the services of those athletes seeking the highest available compensation. No different than today. It's just that the compensation pool for every P4 program was just increased by $20mm(ish).

GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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RodeoPoke said:

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GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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Meh. None of this matters until transfers are abolished or very, very limited. We will get significantly "out-spent" just like we are now.

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well most current employment laws do not allow you to make somebody work for you (not transfer), isn't employment/compensation the crux of this whole ruling/settlement?

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Sure, compensation is the issue. But that's not THE issue. Programs with (booster) money (outside of the schools direct control) will always be able to buy a roster thru the transfer portal - until there is no transfer portal.

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And thus transfers will still be an every day occurrence with the highest bidder retaining the services of those athletes seeking the highest available compensation. No different than today. It's just that the compensation pool for every P4 program was just increased by $20mm(ish).

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Well, it has been already been litigated that employers can't prevent others from seeking other employment opportunities, so transfers (in any capacity) will always exist.

Regardless of whether the portal is or is not the problem, it won't be litigated or legislated away.

So now what?

Exactly, now what?

Transferring will always be available, and
NIL$$ (outside of revenue sharing) will always be available.

So, revenue sharing accomplishes nothing to solve the competitive issues in college sports. The athletes just get richer, the product gets worse and the cost to be entertained goes up.

Total disaster.

GumbyFromPokeyLand said:

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Exactly, now what?

Transferring will always be available, and
NIL$$ (outside of revenue sharing) will always be available.

So, revenue sharing accomplishes nothing to solve the competitive issues in college sports. The athletes just get richer, the product gets worse and the cost to be entertained goes up.

Total disaster.

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I agree completely.


The only thing that come to my mind is a total reset. Lower everything.

Lower coaches salaries, lower AD expenses, lower ticket prices and required donations, negotiate lower TV deals (ESPN is going broke anyway) - lower all expenses and all revenues. Total Reset.

Dangit, lower the professor salaries, the administration salaries, and tuition - it all costs way more than is required.

I mean, if your revenues are lower, then revenue sharing is also lower (right?). That does not resolve the NIL influence, but can probably be regulated out by making there nothing to market. I.e., if you market yourself individually then you forfeit eligibility. Go represent yourself, but not in the NCAA.

The schools will make mostly nothing in profits, the coaches are not ridiculously overpaid, and the fans don't get stiffed by the student-athletes.

I dunno, something very radical will happen, I believe it will be a total fiscal collapse of most D!-A programs.