Report - Michigan Offers 5 million to QB Bryce Underwood to leave LSU for Michigan next year

[Purple Pile Driver]

Men's sports have always funded the women's sports. It was like that before NIL, too. Whether or not I think Title IX is fair or good doesn't matter. The intention of the law is that schools don't provide opportunities to men at the exclusion of women. Scholarship, compensation, whatever. These are schools. Why are they even in the sports business if they aren't providing opportunities to students?

I’m not following where you are taking this. Schools are providing opportunities and always have been. Equal opportunity doesn’t mean equal outcome. If the women generate most of the revenue they should keep most of the income.

 

[FeralFelidae]

I’m not following where you are taking this. Schools are providing opportunities and always have been. Equal opportunity doesn’t mean equal outcome. If the women generate most of the revenue they should keep most of the income.

Schools already have to provide equal scholarship opportunities because of Title IX. I'm telling you that's already the law of the land, whether you like it or not. As to whether Title IX applies to compensation paid directly by the schools to their students, that will surely have to be sorted out in the courts due to the inevitable lawsuits, but cattul provided a quote above that states that the government's position is that Title IX does apply to compensation, too. The details just have not been worked out.

I'm a hard-right conservative. Ask the other Rant Board posters. "Equality of outcomes" isn't my thing. I'm just calling it how I see it.

 

[WaveJumper]

Reading all of the comments after my "are you happy" post, I've got to laugh. Please refrain from whining when Michigan can come up with $5 mil for one player, and NU can't come up with $5 mil for an entire team.

My point was, the field ain't level my friends, (never really was, but it was never tilted as badly as now - remember the $100 handshakes?). Perhaps it isn't ALL your fault, but you wholeheartedly supported it, and you got what you got. Perfect example of a plan with unintended consequences and lacking an exit strategy.

Since I never endorsed it, I feel entitled to be critical. It was promoted on the basis of being "fair" to the athlete (who I admit works his ass off for old alma mater, and only gets a fully paid tuition, room and board, and incidentals scholarship). And even better, it fully endorses capitalism in college sports, (oh wait not ALL college sports). If you liked it then, when nobody looked at any reasonable process to control it, you should like it now.

Hooray for Michigan. I hope they land the kid. Tough luck, LSU. Go feel good about yourselves, and shine up that participation trophy.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

I will work on my Roman numerals.

Nothing I am going to say will change your opinion, but where is the money the school gets come from? Serious question. Does it make any sense to you to split the money evenly between genders when two sports (both men sports) generate all the revenue. I am not trying to diss Women’s sports or non-revenue sports but they lose money for the Universities. The move to university distribution was proposed to put some guardrails around a process. IMO, It actually would result in women’s athletes actually getting some NIL. How on earth does distributing money generated by a Network football contract to the Woman’s soccer team violate Title IX ( got it right this time)?

The arguments you’re making may or may not be valid, but they are irrelevant. This is purely a legal question of how title IX applies to these new revenue distributions. This is PROBABLY unsettled law that will be further litigated and may also be subject to changing policies as the dept of ed changed enforcements and interpretations. There are already plenty of other areas of significance where who is in charge of the Department has a substantial impact on the stated interpretation of the same statute.


I wonder if schools will start to allocate revenue to programs off of some kind of revenue funding formula. Ie, each program gets the percent of the overall revenue pie it generates. Football generates 80% and gets $16 million, basketball generates 15% and gets $3 million, women’s track and field generates >.1% and gets $60 and a BO gift card. Other schools may try to allocate based on direct involvements from TV contracts, set themselves up as nothing but a passthrough entity. Very interesting…