It will be very interesting to see next January, when schools report to the NCAA their direct revenue sharing payments to players, by sport, just how much UCLA and other WBB programs spent in institutional NIL revenue sharing funds for fiscal year 2026. 5% for WBB programs has been mentioned as the default allocation for WBB, but there will no doubt be variation, perhaps wide variation.
I have reviewed the fiscal year ‘25 financial reports submitted to the NCAA by 15 of the public (exc. Indiana) BIG schools. 14 are silent on NIL, but Penn State reported that WBB had $110,000 (< 1%) in expenses for "Institutional NIL Revenue Sharing" from a department-wide NIL expense total of $18,368,391. Apart from the pittance for WBB, I am confused why Penn State included NIL revenue sharing in its report on fiscal year 2025, which ended June 30, 2025, when institutional NIL revenue sharing did not begin until July 1, 2025. Assume this timing issue is why the recent fiscal year ‘25 reports for the other 14 BIG public schools were silent on institutional NIL revenue sharing payments.
