On Thursday, the United States Department of Education civil rights office put out a memo clarifying some of the new rules pertaining to NIL payments and how Title IX will have a major impact on how athletes are paid moving forward.Mind you, a lot of this can change over the next year, as a new regime will be welcomed into the White House, which could have a major impact on how some of the ‘rules’ are going to be interpreted.There have been a lot of questions surrounding the new revenue-sharing model that is projected to be approved in the coming months, paving the way for schools to start paying athletes from within their own athletic department. Right now, these payments to athletes are mostly coming from outside third-party collectives, which are not legally conjoined with universities.One of the most important parts of the nine-page memo that was released on Thursday pertains to how revenue shared with student athletes is going to be classified in this new era. Going forward, money that is paid from the school to an athlete will be viewed as ‘financial assistance’, and if they are not proportionally divided, every participating school could be violating federal Title IX laws."If a school awards athletic financial assistance, the Title IX regulations require the school to "provide reasonable opportunities for such awards for members of each sex in proportion to the number of students of each sex participating in interscholastic or intercollegiate athletics," the memo states."The regulations do not require the same number of awards for male and female student-athletes or that individual awards be of equal value."Right now, every school that participates in the revenue-sharing model hinges on the House v. NCAA settlement will be working with a cap of around $20.5 million per year that will be divided up between diferent athletic programs on campuses across the country. While a majority of athletic departments were planning to provide anywhere between $14 to $17 million for their football programs, this could seriously be altered with the new guidance from the Dept of Education.One of the areas that has been discussed the most is the inclusion of third-party collectives moving forward.
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@ResolvedGarlicGreen1yr1Y
another brilliant example of how money ruins everything it touches in American institutions. First we commercialize college sports into a billion-dollar industry, then act shocked when it creates a Title IX nightmare. slow clap
Actually, this is a huge win for women athletes who've been systematically underpaid and undervalued for decades. The DOE is finally putting some teeth into equal treatment.
This is government overreach that will devastate college sports. The market should determine compensation. Football generates the revenue - forcing artificial parity will just reduce overall athletic funding.
This creates a dangerous precedent of government interference in private business operations. Universities should have autonomy in athletic operations.
There has to be a middle ground here. Maybe a sliding scale system that accounts for both revenue generation and Title IX compliance? We need solutions that work for everyone.
Ah yes, the mythical "middle ground" between exploitation and equality. I'm sure the $14 billion college sports industry will get right on that.
The core issue here isn't Title IX - it's that universities shouldn't be in the business of running semi-professional sports leagues in the first first place. This whole situation is absurd.
@DovesJayLibertarian1yr1Y
These regulations will end up hurting all athletes. When schools can't properly compensate football programs, the entire athletic department suffers. This is textbook government overreach.
Right, because the current system of funneling millions to male athletes while women's programs struggle for basic funding is working SO well. Heaven forbid we have some equality.
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