I think most schools have prioritized WBB as their 3rd sport. The rev sharing template model most schools start out with is 75% FB, 15% MBB, 5% WBB and 5% everything else. Rev share is just over 20 mil so every 5% is about a million bucks. I know our MBB has to be well over 3 mil and I know this Spring before House is implemented is being treated as a double dipping opportunity, so that explains that, but I wonder if Odom will be limited to 3 mil in 26-27.
But anyway, every non-rev sport is going to be a money loser. Apparently the only net income non-rev program in the entire country is Nebraska volleyball. ESPN attributes the TV money as 75% football, 25% MBB, 0% for all other sports. As long as thatâs the case and every non-rev is dependent on ticket sales and donations for all revenue, theyâll all be money losers. Maybe the NCAA separates out the WBB rights so thatâll get an itemized value and the NCAA says itâll start paying out units for WBB tournament performance, so those might put more revenue into the income lines of WBB programs.
Me too. But Iâm also very curious where different schools, especially us, are getting that 20 mil from. In the 23-24 school year we had 154 mil revenue, 39 from donors, 33 from media, 17 from tix, 17 from student fees, 8 in bowl money, 5 from the NCAA, 7 from the school and we were up 8 mil.
The 7 from the school is surprising. Thatâs a huge jump from the 1-2 mil I see in prior years and is basically our entire profit. Every other year is within a mil or 2 of break even.
Would think this only applies to public schools? I believe a few hockey programs were positive in the 2010âs. Not sure howâs thatâs changed with all the craziness of Covid and NIL
I heard it on an ESPN Daily podcast a couple years ago. I tried to track it down and found it embedded in the story below, but I listened again and didnât hear that statement. Either way, I didnât independently confirm. Maybe it was womenâs programs. I dunno. The article did say that Nebraska VB turned a profit even before factoring in donations and this was the season prior to them selling out the football stadium for a game.
DeSorbo has the best class in the country coming in and the world is definitely watching to see how the men do.
Add Anna Moesch and Tess Howley to the LA28 watch list now, too.
Moesch likely just made her first World Champs team, and Howley dropped a great 200 Fly for 3rd at Trials.
I have no further comment on Carla - donât know enough, but the college sports world is crazy, and survival is the #1 priority.
Ironically, Grant House swam in National Trials tonight. The crowd was silent when he was introduced because they know how he helped set off a chain reaction in college sports that many donât like.
Ah, heâs the House in the House settlement? I knew it was a person, but had never looked into the details of the case. I think a lot of people mistakenly think the House in the settlement is referring to Congress.
Yeah, he swam at Arizona State and sued the NCAA for conference media rights revenue-sharing, payments to former athletes, and direct payments from schools to athletes. I think there was a womenâs basketball player, too.
Aside from the overall impact, a lot of people in swimming view it as a threat to the sport in college for the same reason weâre having this baseball discussion.
It all started with the OâBannon brothers suit against the NCAA and EA Sports for recovery of usage of their name, image, and likeness.
They arenât getting any grief. Itâs â or, specifically, the vitriol is â reserved for House because his suit (taken together with so many others) led to swimming and other nonrev sports losing roster spots and, in some cases, elimination of the programs altogether.
Houseâs named co-plaintiff is Sedona Prince who is also known for sharing the video of the sparse womenâs weight room at the Covid NCAA basketball tournament. The obvious disparity between that and the menâs weight room shamed the NCAA into equipping the womenâs weight room immediately.
I have visions of NCAA employees in Indianapolis going to every sporting goods store in town buying whatever they could take with them and driving to the womenâs hotel, but Iâm sure someone just made a call for same day delivery. I wonder what they did with all the equipment afterwards.
Kind of academic since the settlement had previously been announced, but the FSU/Clemson/ACC lawsuits have been dismissed.
Of note in here is that it will only cost $75 million to leave the conference in 2030, which is when the other tv contracts are expiring. So the race for Carla and company to raise $75 million is on.
I assume this can be structured as a loan against the future earnings you would expect from getting into the new conference. If you donât expect higher earnings, not sure what the point is.
Even if the new conference doesnât help with the financing, the school should be able to finance it with a third party or finance it with its own endowment. I donât know all the legal restrictions, but if the new conference share is even 25 mil more than the ACCâs, thatâs only 3 years. If we start with a half share for 10 years, we might need to be a little more creative with the financing. In no world should 75 mil deter us from a conference move.