📡 A chart from the NCAA delivered to member schools today outlining what it means to opt into the House settlement.

 

[OldPlayer]

It’s official. College sports are ruined.

 

[TerryP]

It’s official. College sports are ruined.

This is part of what I was alluding to the other day. The number they have put out is 22 percent for the rev cap share bit...I thought it was going to be around 17.

 

[TerryP]

Tide Pride wouldn't be part of "revenue" on football.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

The following excerpts from a column by retired North Carolina academician Art Padilla seem relevant, not to mention radical. What do you think?

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The absurdly gargantuan athletic conferences have amassed the most power. Their headquarters negotiate television contracts and run tournaments, and they are knowledgeable about legislation and litigation. They have lavishly paid commissioners and staffs replete with lawyers and former coaches. The SEC and the Big Ten conferences are in the best position to drive the process, to the extent it is drivable.

The other conferences, as well as the NCAA and befuddled university presidents and trustees, are trying to hang on to the tiger’s tail without being devoured. In the absence of university leaders capable of managing intercollegiate athletics, college sports will be increasingly defined outside the universities.

The best option for universities may be to watch the show from a distance. Sports should be divorced from universities and the athletic enterprises should be charged for the use of university names. This is, after all, the current situation, except athletic programs aren’t paying the institutions that enable their fortunes.

 

[TerryP]

The following excerpts from a column by retired North Carolina academician Art Padilla seem relevant, not to mention radical. What do you think?

An academician commenting on sports programs is ...

Is he one of those "attack the system" kind of guys?

(Interesting note: author served on the transition teams between Carter and Reagan.)

Art Padilla: Big-time college sports - Public Ed Works

Separating college athletic programs from the colleges they represent has been considered a capitulation, a surrender, like legalizing drugs because they can’t be controlled. But this may be the only option left. WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (February 10, 2025) – There are four verities in big-time...

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Art Padilla: Universities and DEI, Part 1 - Public Ed Works

RALEIGH (February 17, 2023) – More than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties have lost population since 2010. Those who live in fast growing metropolitan areas like Raleigh, Charlotte, or Wilmington seldom grasp the poverty and lack of opportunity that exist just a few miles from their homes...

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[Sid Youngleman]

An academician commenting on sports programs is ...

Is he one of those "attack the system" kind of guys?

(Interesting note: author served on the transition teams between Carter and Reagan.

I'd guess he was on the Carter side of the transition. This column appeared in Higher Ed Works, an online journal about education in NC which is emphatically leftward, at least as I reckon such things. Padilla may also suffer from a touch of ACC penis envy, at least as far as football is concerned.