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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5317187, member: 3850"] I think many are discounting the changes that we may see because of recent happenings re football, payment for athletes court case, etc. Institutional/state support costs will rise...and this will variably impact schools based on their resources and availability of state tax payer support of sports. Schools may see bumps in funding to be borne by the institution/state tax payer. [I]The news was not all good, however. The amount of institutional support received by UConn Athletics in fiscal 2024 was $31.7 million, an increase of $1.5 million, or about 5%, from the previous year. [/I] While this amount is down from previous highs, it will probably increase over time, [B]Ohio State University [/B]president Ted Carter portended a bleak future for non-revenue sports at his university and likely across the country in a recent interview with The Columbus Dispatch. “We’ll still have scholarships, we’ll still have programs,” Carter said. “Some of those sports may start to look and act a little bit more like a club sport, but yet compete at the Division I level and still travel and still compete.” We are already down the rabbit hole and only federal intervention can slow the progress of the pull of the black hole. Not to get political..but the WH factoids supporting the recent collegiate sports Exec Order say... [LIST] [*][I][I]Given these enormous, escalating demands on resources to compete in the revenue-generating sports, there are serious concerns regarding the future of non-revenue sports, women’s sports, and Olympic sports, as private-donor money is increasingly concentrated in these third-party, pay-for-play deals. This dynamic also reduces competition and parity by creating an oligarchy of teams that can buy the best players—including the best players from less-wealthy programs at the end of each season, given the lack of restrictions on transferring teams each year.[/I][/I] [/LIST] The Executive Order directs... [LIST] [*]The Order directs the Secretary of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to clarify the status of student-athletes in order to preserve non-revenue sports and the irreplaceable educational and developmental opportunities that college sports provide. [*]The Order provides that any revenue-sharing permitted between universities and collegiate athletes should be implemented in a manner that protects women’s and non-revenue sports. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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