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Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
They pulled off huge March Madness upsets. Now they're opting out of revenue sharing
FILE - The national office of the NCAA in Indianapolis is shown on March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) Saint Peter's, Fairleigh Dickinson and Maryland-Baltimore County — three schools that have taken March Madness by storm at various points in the past decade — have declined to opt in to college sports' new revenue sharing model. The newly formed College Sports Commission, which oversees revenue sharing following the House settlement, posted a list of schools that have opted into revenue sharing. All members of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference are participating, and other Division I schools had to opt in or out by June 30. Advertisement Saint Peter's, which reached the men's Elite Eight as a No. 15 seed in 2022, did not opt in. Iona and Manhattan, who play with Saint Peter's in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, didn't either. UMBC and Fairleigh Dickinson, the only two teams to pull off a 16-over-1 upset in the men's basketball tournament, opted out as well. Fairleigh Dickinson is part of the Northeast Conference, which had just one school — Long Island University — opt in. 'It's expensive to opt in,' Idaho athletic director Terry Gawlik told the Lewiston Tribune. 'We don't have that kind of money to pay for that." Idaho is one of several Big Sky schools opting out. Advertisement In addition to the costs of sharing revenue directly with athletes, Title IX concerns and scholarship limitations are among the reasons a school might opt out. 'Revenue sharing and scholarship limits are really one piece, but the big thing for us is the roster limitation,' Central Arkansas athletic director Matt Whiting told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette while explaining his school's decision to opt out. Military rules prevent Navy, Air Force, and Army from compensating athletes through name, image and likeness deals, but aside from them, the Football Bowl Subdivision leagues have full participation in the settlement. Other conferences with all full members opting in included the Atlantic 10, Big East, Coastal Athletic, Horizon, Missouri Valley, Southwestern Athletic, Western Athletic and West Coast. The Big West had everyone opt in except Cal Poly and UC Davis, which play football in the Big Sky. Advertisement Nebraska-Omaha is the lone full member of the Summit League to opt out, and Tennessee State is the only full Ohio Valley member to do so. The Ivy League said in January that its eight schools — which do not award athletic scholarships — would not participate. The Patriot League didn't have any full members opt in either, although Fordham, Georgetown and Richmond — associate members who play football in that conference — did. Of the 68 schools that made the NCAA men's basketball tournament last year, only American, Nebraska-Omaha, Saint Francis and Yale have opted out of revenue sharing. Five schools that made the women's tournament opted out: Columbia, Fairleigh Dickinson, Harvard, Lehigh and Princeton. Commissioners of historically Black conferences have expressed concern that the push to make athletes school employees could potentially destroy athletic programs — but the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Southwestern Athletic Conference had everyone opt in except North Carolina Central. Advertisement Some schools that don't play Division I football or basketball opted in — such as Johns Hopkins with its storied lacrosse program. Augusta University, which is located in the same town as the Masters and perhaps unsurprisingly competes in Division I in golf, was on the list of teams opting in. ___ AP sports:
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Devin Carter sinks the shot at the buzzer
Why Money Doesn't Trickle Down to Players in the W The No Offseason crew gets deep on how money works when it comes to the WNBA -- and why players are not seeing the boom in interest in women's basketball reflected in their paychecks. How does revenue sharing work in the W? How does the W's relationship with the NBA impact the money available to players and teams? And what changes are players looking for in the new CBA being negotiated this year? 10:51 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Charles Bassey with the last basket of the period
Why Money Doesn't Trickle Down to Players in the W The No Offseason crew gets deep on how money works when it comes to the WNBA -- and why players are not seeing the boom in interest in women's basketball reflected in their paychecks. How does revenue sharing work in the W? How does the W's relationship with the NBA impact the money available to players and teams? And what changes are players looking for in the new CBA being negotiated this year? 10:51 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
The Guardian
09-07-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
How ‘oppressive' FSU revenue-sharing deals show continued exploitation of college football players
Revenue sharing is now a feature of college athletics. Thanks to the house settelement signed in May, schools are permitted to spend $20.5m annually across sports, including through expanded scholarships and direct payments (of which it appears football will generally receive approximately 75%). This would seem to mitigate the longstanding problem of exploitation in college football. However, in a sport still defined by extreme injury, recently disclosed provisions in the new Florida State University (FSU) revenue-sharing contract show that schools appear to simply be finding new ways to extract value from players, as ever at startling personal cost. Per a CBS Sports report, the new FSU contract being distributed to football players reads, in part, 'the following circumstances create a breach of contract by Student-Athlete: Student-Athlete experiences any illness or injury which is serious enough to affect the value of the rights granted to [school] under this Agreement.' In other words: If a player gets injured, the school has leverage to cancel the deal. Darren Heitner, adjunct law professor at the University of Florida and University of Miami, and an expert on college sports' name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, was stunned by what he found upon reading the contracts. 'I take no issue with the drafter of a contract creating a document that leans in favor of the drafting party. In fact, that's expected,' he told us. 'However, there is a problem with a contract when it is so unfair, one-sided, and oppressive that it shocks the conscience. 'Reviewing the terms and considering that sometimes 17-year-olds with no legal counsel will be asked to sign on the dotted line, my takeaway is that this rises to the level of unconscionability unless thoroughly negotiated. I have reviewed dozens of revenue-sharing agreements and none compare.' In a statement given to CBS Sports, FSU said in part that 'Each individual situation will be unique and the hypotheticals are impossible to predict. However, we are committed to continuing to provide an elite experience for our student-athletes in all aspects of their collegiate career.' Injury, of course, is an inherent feature of college football. In our recent book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game we observe that every 2.6 years of participation in football doubles the chances of contracting the degenerative brain disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and that 91 percent of American college football players' brains examined in a pivotal Boston University study displayed neuropathology consistent with CTE. Similarly, participation in football likely increases the chances of developing Parkinson's disease by 61 percent compared to athletes in other organized sports (and that risk is 2.93 times greater at the college/pro level). In the book, we interviewed twenty-five former big-time college football players about their experiences in the sport. Many of those players suffered extremely debilitating injuries that caused them to lose seasons or even end careers, including knee reconstructions, torn AC joints, neck surgeries, torn achilles tendons, and countless concussions. One player told us, 'Before I got to college, never had an injury. By the time I left college, I had a medical record book of over six hundred pages. From rehab notes, surgery notes, to MRIs. I had over twelve MRIs total, five knee surgeries. This was while I was playing. . . . Later I found out that I had four torn labrum[s]. So I have a torn labrum on both shoulders, torn labrum on both hips.' Thus, the question of players being relieved of their contractually agreed upon compensation as a consequence of injury is hardly academic. It will happen, and to many. 'I think the recently revealed contract details from Florida State exemplifies the current attitude of university officials who have completely lost sight of their jobs as educators,' former UCLA and NFL player Chris Kluwe told us. 'They view college athletes (and students) as a product to be bought and sold and not human beings, which runs contrary to everything the education system should be. 'In a sport like football where athletes are predominately black and in a state like Florida where the current government seems intent on returning to the Antebellum Era, the fact school officials feel the need to include severe language curtailing players' rights to the product of their labor is intensely concerning, and highlights the need for a college players union to protect athletes from would-be modern day plantation owners.' The situation is compounded by the fact that universities don't provide long-term health insurance to the players, leaving them to bear all the associated costs of their physical hardship. One player we spoke to for the book actually told us that 'Long term, just strictly financially … it will have [ended up], like I paid money to play college football.' Until such time as there are genuine occupational health and safety protections befitting a profession with such profound inherent dangers, it's clear that the sport is not actually entering a more humane era. The House Settlement has ushered in little more than a new modality for the same old exploitation and harm. Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick and co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. He is co-host of The End of Sport podcast. Derek Silva is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King's University College at Western University and co-author of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. He is co-host of The End of Sport podcast.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
How ‘oppressive' FSU revenue-sharing deals show continued exploitation of college football players
Revenue sharing is now a feature of college athletics. Thanks to the house settelement signed in May, schools are permitted to spend $20.5m annually across sports, including through expanded scholarships and direct payments (of which it appears football will generally receive approximately 75%). This would seem to mitigate the longstanding problem of exploitation in college football. However, in a sport still defined by extreme injury, recently disclosed provisions in the new Florida State University (FSU) revenue-sharing contract show that schools appear to simply be finding new ways to extract value from players, as ever at startling personal cost. Advertisement Per a CBS Sports report, the new FSU contract being distributed to football players reads, in part, 'the following circumstances create a breach of contract by Student-Athlete: Student-Athlete experiences any illness or injury which is serious enough to affect the value of the rights granted to [school] under this Agreement.' In other words: If a player gets injured, the school has leverage to cancel the deal. Related: Why female athletes are challenging the NCAA's $2.8bn settlement Darren Heitner, adjunct law professor at the University of Florida and University of Miami, and an expert on college sports' name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, was stunned by what he found upon reading the contracts. Advertisement 'I take no issue with the drafter of a contract creating a document that leans in favor of the drafting party. In fact, that's expected,' he told us. 'However, there is a problem with a contract when it is so unfair, one-sided, and oppressive that it shocks the conscience. 'Reviewing the terms and considering that sometimes 17-year-olds with no legal counsel will be asked to sign on the dotted line, my takeaway is that this rises to the level of unconscionability unless thoroughly negotiated. I have reviewed dozens of revenue-sharing agreements and none compare.' In a statement given to CBS Sports, FSU said in part that 'Each individual situation will be unique and the hypotheticals are impossible to predict. However, we are committed to continuing to provide an elite experience for our student-athletes in all aspects of their collegiate career.' Injury, of course, is an inherent feature of college football. In our recent book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game we observe that every 2.6 years of participation in football doubles the chances of contracting the degenerative brain disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and that 91 percent of American college football players' brains examined in a pivotal Boston University study displayed neuropathology consistent with CTE. Similarly, participation in football likely increases the chances of developing Parkinson's disease by 61 percent compared to athletes in other organized sports (and that risk is 2.93 times greater at the college/pro level). Advertisement In the book, we interviewed twenty-five former big-time college football players about their experiences in the sport. Many of those players suffered extremely debilitating injuries that caused them to lose seasons or even end careers, including knee reconstructions, torn AC joints, neck surgeries, torn achilles tendons, and countless concussions. Related: 'We were powerless': inside the devastating Ohio State sexual abuse scandal One player told us, 'Before I got to college, never had an injury. By the time I left college, I had a medical record book of over six hundred pages. From rehab notes, surgery notes, to MRIs. I had over twelve MRIs total, five knee surgeries. This was while I was playing. . . . Later I found out that I had four torn labrum[s]. So I have a torn labrum on both shoulders, torn labrum on both hips.' Thus, the question of players being relieved of their contractually agreed upon compensation as a consequence of injury is hardly academic. It will happen, and to many. Advertisement 'I think the recently revealed contract details from Florida State exemplifies the current attitude of university officials who have completely lost sight of their jobs as educators,' former UCLA and NFL player Chris Kluwe told us. 'They view college athletes (and students) as a product to be bought and sold and not human beings, which runs contrary to everything the education system should be. 'In a sport like football where athletes are predominately black and in a state like Florida where the current government seems intent on returning to the Antebellum Era, the fact school officials feel the need to include severe language curtailing players' rights to the product of their labor is intensely concerning, and highlights the need for a college players union to protect athletes from would-be modern day plantation owners.' The situation is compounded by the fact that universities don't provide long-term health insurance to the players, leaving them to bear all the associated costs of their physical hardship. One player we spoke to for the book actually told us that 'Long term, just strictly financially … it will have [ended up], like I paid money to play college football.' Until such time as there are genuine occupational health and safety protections befitting a profession with such profound inherent dangers, it's clear that the sport is not actually entering a more humane era. The House Settlement has ushered in little more than a new modality for the same old exploitation and harm. Advertisement
