Dep of Education mandates Title IX for payments to athletes

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Any payment or NIL a university gives to athletes must be proportionate to the male/female ratio to comply under Title IX. This would drive up costs substantially and probably drive schools out of D1 athletics or athletics altogether.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... s-athletes

[MissouriValleyUnite]

This means Linda McMahon becomes the most powerful person in college athletics when she takes over the Department of Education next week. The fate of D1 athletics for many schools could rest in her hands over wether she decides to uphold this mandate.

Linda McMahon was the former CEO of WWF who was the brains behind the WWF defeating Billionaire Ted Turner's WCW and turning WWF into a global empire. When she ran for Senate in Connecticut, this scene of her slapping Stephanie McMahon became one of the most played political ads of that election.
https://youtu.be/WutKGeQZDPI?si=SY5q6i5KP5gwETli

[PretzelDawg]

Any payment or NIL a university gives to athletes must be proportionate to the male/female ratio to comply under Title IX. This would drive up costs substantially and probably drive schools out of D1 athletics or athletics altogether.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... s-athletes

I don't believe this was a mandate. I believe it is a suggestion. This could be the straw that helps kill NILs too. When schools determine they can't pay everyone, the NILs could go away or become more in the ballpark of having $20,000-$40,000 instead of the exorbitant amounts some are making.

[IllinoisState]

Any payment or NIL a university gives to athletes must be proportionate to the male/female ratio to comply under Title IX. This would drive up costs substantially and probably drive schools out of D1 athletics or athletics altogether.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... s-athletes

I don't believe this was a mandate. I believe it is a suggestion. This could be the straw that helps kill NILs too. When schools determine they can't pay everyone, the NILs could go away or become more in the ballpark of having $20,000-$40,000 instead of the exorbitant amounts some are making.

I would say this probably is a mandate and it will only hurt school-run NIL collectives and move most in house payments to private entities to not need to follow this.

[BCPanther]

Any payment or NIL a university gives to athletes must be proportionate to the male/female ratio to comply under Title IX. This would drive up costs substantially and probably drive schools out of D1 athletics or athletics altogether.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... s-athletes

I don't believe this was a mandate. I believe it is a suggestion. This could be the straw that helps kill NILs too. When schools determine they can't pay everyone, the NILs could go away or become more in the ballpark of having $20,000-$40,000 instead of the exorbitant amounts some are making.

It's going to make it worse.

There is literally no regulation of outside boosters and companies paying kids. It's deeply, deeply unconstitutional and that's why the NCAA stopped fighting. If somebody wants to give Arch Manning $10M to play next year, there is no legal reason why he shouldn't be able to make that. You can't regulate a market that doesn't follow any traditional market principles.

I also expect this gets overruled on appeal so fast that it'll make your head spin. You can't justify female athletes getting 50-60% of revenue when they produce less than 3% of the revenue. Sanity is going to win out here and football is going to get 75%, MBB 15%, WWB 5% and the last 5% is for everybody else.

I read a quote from an AD that said, 'we're going to get sued no matter what we do, so we might as well have a good football team while we're at it.'