So obviously the new COA expenses, and the ever growing cost of collegiate athletics in general has put a greater strain on the bottom line of schools than ever before. While calls to either increase compensation for student athletes, or limit their utilization or commitments continues unabated.
The schools obviously are not sinless in this, but in many ways they are just reacting to market forces and what they think the fans want.
Well the NCAA is obviously interested in staying together and keeping a product going they are taking a not unreasonable step.
Conferences already have a lot of revenue sharing, and specific sports involve it too, like the Basketball Tourney.
But this is the first time I have seen the NCAA just do it wholesale for the purpose of enhancing the student athlete experience.
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There are 347 Division 1 schools. This amounts to about $600k per school.
It'll help... but not that much
Since it is going to be based on # of athletes at each school, Tech stands to get more than VMI or VCU which is fair.
But even 600k is more than half of our COA expense each year, and the rumors seem to be that this could be an ongoing thing so long as NCAA revenue keeps up.
I haven't actually compared the numbers, but I know VMI has a reputation for having an extremely high number of varsity athletes as a percentage of the student body. They may actually get more than us.
doubtful since they also only sponsor 16 sports vs VT's 19(according to wiki at least), and FCS football has a smaller roster than FBS.
Some will get less some will get more.
Edit: Its really hard to find firm numbers of scholarship athletes at schools.
Yeah I can't even find a good estimate on the # of D1 athletes there are. I found there are 460,000 NCAA student-athletes, but that includes all 3 divisions.
So non scholarship, partial and full. Weird that information is not out there.
Weird? I don't see it weird at all. Not for an organization that is doing whatever they can to make it look like they're being as helpful as possible while still raking in the $$$$.
But you would think VT would have it somewhere where Google could reach it same with other colleges.
Nah. It's a floating number.
With the politicization of everything, it makes no difference what that number would be, someone would find fault with it.
If it differed somehow with the number reported in its title IX filing, which it would, there is the possibility of lawsuit.
In the current climate, don't disclose anything except in the most vague number possible.
I think it is mostly that it is assumed that schools will use the full allotment that the NCAA allows for each sport, so if a school sponsors a sport, which is easy to find they are using the total allowed scholarship values, but yeah I think it would then get hard to pin down how many ways the divisible ones are going.
That's not really a valid assumption. Just look at the articles about CJFs time at Memphis. Multiple accounts of him stating that they did not have a full compliment of scholarship players when he arrived. Granted, it a small sample size but it does counter your assumption
So is this yearly or one time thing?
If its yearly, id like to see where the 200million went last year and the hundreds of millions from years prior