A new world of college sports is likely coming, and soon, with the planned adoption of the terms of the settlement in the House lawsuit against the NCAA ushering in an era of revenue sharing, among other big changes. It is a world that trains, State of Pennsylvania football coach James Franklin Including, I still don’t see it completely clear.
How Penn State, as an athletic department and football program, will proceed may not be resolved, Franklin said. But the topic of how college athletic departments will transform to adapt to the new landscape has been omnipresent.
“So, as you can imagine, there is still a lot to figure out and figure out,” Franklin said. “That was a big part of the discussions at the Big Ten meetings in California, with the commissioner, with the ADs, with all the head football coaches. “While we have a pretty good idea of where this is going, the big picture is how it’s going to play out across all of these different campuses, it’s going to be very different.”
As things currently stand, schools are expected to allocate about $22 million annually in the budget to directly pay athletes in various sports. At a school like Penn State, football would presumably take the lion’s share of disposable income, consistent with being the primary producer of said revenue, while other programs would be content with the rest.
But Penn State, Franklin said, is one of the schools in a position to direct more than $20 million in annual payments to athletes. Other athletic departments won’t be in such a fortunate position, which might be Franklin’s clearest conclusion yet: Not all schools will be able to financially support the model the House deal is meant to introduce, at least with current expenses. maintaining its current course.
And that’s just one of several potential issues or changes that haven’t really been fixed yet. And that leaves Franklin, like most others in charge of college sports, not entirely sure what’s on the horizon.
“Some schools will not be able to meet the threshold,” Franklin said. “They won’t have the income to be able to do it. I think we will be a program that does that. But you also have Title X that also influences that. So there’s a lot that goes into it. “I don’t have enough information right now, Mike, to answer your question intelligently and specifically because the details haven’t been worked out yet.”
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