DAG

Surprised something like this isn’t already on rivals. Seen threads for far less and more relevant to Auburn moved to the rivals thread.

as football is the major sport, which college athletics seems to be shaped upon based on revenue, that is where the resources will be mostly allocated to. It has never just been about competing for championships. Clemson and FSU are big dogs in the ACC and they are trying to get out of there. Same reason why it wasn’t good enough for Texas and OU to be the pillar of the big 12.

This could be very ground breaking

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40071715/ncaa-pay-more-27b-settle-nil-antitrust-suit-sources-say The NCAA's national office might be footing the bill for a settlement expected to be more than $2.7 billion in the landmark House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit in hopes of reshaping and stabilizing the college sports industry, according to multiple sources. Sources told ESPN this week that parties have proposed the NCAA's national office -- rather than its individual member schools or conferences -- would pay for the settlement of past damages over a period of 10 years. The NCAA payments would be paid to former college athletes who say they were illegally prevented from making money by selling the rights to their name, image and likeness. The settlement would come with a corresponding commitment from conferences and schools to share revenue with athletes moving forward, per sources. The settlement would establish a framework for power conferences to share revenue with their athletes in the future. Sources have told ESPN that schools are anticipating a ceiling of nearly $20 million per year for athlete revenue share moving forward. (That nearly $20 million number is a permissive cap derived from a formula based on each school's revenue, and schools could choose how much they want to spend.)

I think the latter would be easier. Basically what the NBA does by ownership and the league.

I suppose not much can be done about it unless it is written in the contract to say otherwise.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40065306/some-bowl-leaders-hope-cba-help-lower-number-opt-outs "If you sign a contract and receive compensation, you're obligated to perform certain duties -- in this case, play 12 regular-season games and a bowl game or a bowl game and the playoff," he said. "That's logical to expect. It's the way the rest of us working folks operate."

Yep, If they would’ve given up a little bit of the pie I do NOT think things would’ve turned out this way.

Way too subjective. Partially unfair because some of us weren’t even born during some of these coaches tenure.

Good questions all around. So much grey area. I am also wondering where they are getting that estimate figure of 20 million.

Things are moving steadily. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40053021/college-sports-leaders-deep-talks-settle-nil-antitrust-case-vs-ncaa The leaders of college sports are involved in "deep discussions" to reach a legal settlement that would likely lay out the framework for sharing revenue with athletes in a future NCAA business model, sources told ESPN. Sources indicated the top-end revenue share number per school -- once it's determined -- would be in the neighborhood of $20 million annually, although that's yet to be settled.

I agree, it certainly does not seem sustainable. I honestly wish when Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields bought this up years ago it would’ve been some sort of pathway for shared revenue . But it didn’t happen, now we got this.

I just wonder how this all will play out between revenue sharing (if this picks up steam), NIL. Hopefully they got the right people leading this charge. Being in the SEC, I imagine we would be in the haves group.

True. It was only a matter of time though before the players started seeking revenue sharing.

UAB was first. When does Auburn join? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40024327/uab-becomes-1st-d-football-team-join-players-association