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MEGA Conference Realignment and lawsuits Megathread: Stories, Tales, Lies, and Exaggerations

Couple of points.

1. I expect courts to decide how the school money is split up. Long way to go there and the dept of ed is largely irrelevant. The reversal looks correct to me though.

2. I believe the deal with Notre Dame, UM, FSU and Clemson is additional money provided by ESPN and split among the four. Conference of 4 in some ways. Not clear how much it is, but those are big games if the teams are good.
 
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jed2410 said:
There actually was a good point made by them.

If a Collegiate Tennis player is good enough to play in the US Open and win some prize money, the NCAA shouldn't be able to stop them from cashing out on the grounds of maintaining amateurism. They should see it as a gift that the kid wants to play in college at all to be quite frank.

This is the outdated **** that is killing the NCAA.
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Agree, but that's only part of what the Intercollegiate Tennis Association is pushing for in this matter.

The ITA is also campaigning for athletes in non-revenue sports to receive their "fair share" of the schools' revenue distributions — both from days gone by and those in the future — which would come at the expense of football and men's basketball players.

But are those payouts deserved when sports like tennis, golf, swimming, rowing, cross country, etc, etc generate little to no revenue and are primarily funded through funds from TV and ticket sales for football and men's basketball?
 
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Hold My Beer said:
Agree, but that's only part of what the Intercollegiate Tennis Association is pushing for in this matter.

The ITA is also campaigning for athletes in non-revenue sports to receive their "fair share" of the schools' revenue distributions — both from days gone by and those in the future — which would come at the expense of football and men's basketball players.

But are those payouts deserved when sports like tennis, golf, swimming, rowing, cross country, etc, etc generate little to no revenue and are primarily funded through funds from TV and ticket sales for football and men's basketball?
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Honestly NCAA should get out of all revenue generating sports... they are nothing but hustlers grabbing their cut..
 
3FW said:
Couple of points.

1. I expect courts to decide how the school money is split up. Long way to go there and the dept of ed is largely irrelevant. The reversal looks correct to me though.

2. I believe the deal with Notre Dame, UM, FSU and Clemson is additional money provided by ESPN and split among the four. Conference of 4 in some ways. Not clear how much it is, but those are big games if the teams are good.
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ESPN simply OPTED IN to the EXISTING ACC MEDIA AGREEMENT .... the agreement to play more high profile games with the "big brands" ( FSU, Miami, Clemson) and ND is AN ACC AGREEMENT that will then benefit those teams in MORE EXPOSURE ... and the ACC is simply re-destributing the ESPN payout, making some adjustments to reward brands that bring more eyeballs to the conference. Any modification of the amount being paid by ESPN would in fact make it a "new media agreement" and require a new GOR approved by the members. We haven't had any notification of that having transpired.
 
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USNAVYCANE said:
www.nytimes.com

Documents reveal UNC’s conference realignment approach: A code name, ACC ‘in financial decline’

UNC’s behind-closed-doors exploration of conference realignment and its future in the ACC was known by only a code name.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Only 600k? So basically they just doing some basic reviewing of the landscape and taking some notes.
They aren’t actively plotting if that’s all they have spent.

Though the ND deal might push them further down the payout rungs even though they are the home team when it comes to the ACC.

Now if UNC gets serious about leaving, that would be THE domino that would trigger the eventual death of the ACC.
 
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