NCAA NIL Estimated Revenue and scholarships 2025

I suppose that would be one method, but it seems like this settlement is trying to neuter the collectives, and thinly disguised booster payments to athletes that they call NIL.

 

They'll work around that. There's already some agencies setting up shop to run collectives for multiple schools. Their deals wouldn't be from a booster or school sponsored collective. The court system isn't going to let the ncaa completely block the money from getting to the athletes. If the fanbases want to pay the players, I don't see any way the ncaa will be able to keep them from doing so. The courts have already outright said they won't allow it.

 

That would decrease the incentive to fund those agencies. Boosters pay money to collective to buy players for their school. They aren't making real deals for actual NIL. If their ability to funnel money directly to players that they want on their team is no longer available the funds would probably dry up or go back under the table where it used to be.

 

They can figure out how to get the money where you want it to go. Not one big pot divided up evenly between multiple schools, several small pots. You send your money to the pot you want to. Or they just go back to bags, but the money being tossed around nowadays is really too big for that. The schools that want to keep paying these guys hundreds of thousands and millions will continue to do it and they’ll figure out how.

 

I do think they will figure it out because they always have. I do think there will be some Title IX challenges because from what it sounds like some of these AD's are proposing that they will funnel up to 90% of the revenue share to Football and Men's Basketball. If that happens, I can't imagine that not triggering a Title IX challenge considering I expect gobs of lawyers lining up to get their pound of flesh in this whole ridiculous mess.