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Message: [QUOTE="YoDore, post: 5293855, member: 12010"] I just wonder how many non-P4 teams will be able to fork out $20.5 million per year to pay athletes. No doubt UConn will be on par with P4 schools in compensating basketball players of both genders, and maybe the university will find a way to do the full $20.5 million. UConn will not let this new system derail its athletic programs. But, what of the rest of the Big East? How many of them can afford it? I suspect many, if not all, will participate in revenue sharing but at a reduced level. However, this doesn't necessarily spell disaster for those programs. To be honest, they mostly can't compete in recruiting with the P4s and UConn under the present system, so not much will change there. They'll pretty much be competing for the same players they've always competed for against the same schools. To state the obvious, the big advantage P4 schools have is ESPN and Fox money. However, if football schools adopt a financial split that allocates something like 5 percent to WBB, as some are suggesting will happen, that goes a long way toward leveling the playing field for women's programs in non-P4 schools. FIve percent would mean slightly more than a million dollars for P4 women's program to split among players. Even if some non-P4 schools can't quite reach that threshold, they can likely get close enough that they won't get totally blown out of the water in terms of spending. In that scenario, not much will change in terms of recruiting. Of course, there will still be NIL to contend with, and while there apparently will be some effort at regulation by running larger NIL deals through a clearing house to avoid purely pay-for-play deals, I'm sure coaches across the country are already trying to figure out ways to game the system. [/QUOTE]

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