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NIL now ruled by Title IX

I think in some cases people may think the revenue sharing is all for the football team since many discussions involve them. But the revenue sharing is for all athletes including women. Each sport where the university shares revenues will get a percentage of the 22% or 20.5 million. Also the revenue sharing can be considered NIL money because that's what started all of this, but we're still just talking money from the university. Any player that makes a separate NIL deal with 1890 or some business is not part of any revenue sharing deal, and that money has to be split with anyone else.

At least that's my understanding of how it all works.
1890 is now affiliated with the school. From the Nebraska Athletics page:
“1890 Nebraska is the official Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Collective of Nebraska Athletics. Beginning in 2024, the Huskers Athletic Fund will acknowledge donor contributions to 1890 Nebraska by awarding Huskers Athletic Fund priority points and establishing combined memberships “
Many schools have closed the collectives and have the university handle it. Hard to say a court won’t find Title IX to apply.
 
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1890 is now affiliated with the school. From the Nebraska Athletics page:
“1890 Nebraska is the official Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Collective of Nebraska Athletics. Beginning in 2024, the Huskers Athletic Fund will acknowledge donor contributions to 1890 Nebraska by awarding Huskers Athletic Fund priority points and establishing combined memberships “
Many schools have closed the collectives and have the university handle it. Hard to say a court won’t find Title IX to apply.
But what happens when a donor is willing to fork over 2 million dollars in a private deal for a QB? Seems that is his deal and should have no connection to profit sharing through the university.

We have football and volleyball players doing ads for First National Bank, I assume that is their money and not subject to any university agreements as to profit sharing or 1890 collective money.
 
Purely at face value - if schools have to spend equal NIL money on males and females, this bodes well for Nebraska compared to other B1G schools.

I read recently that Nebraska Women's Volleyball was the ONLY FEMALE COLLEGIATE SPORT in the nation to turn a financial profit.

We can easily drop money into our VB team and let John Cook cook.

A lot of other schools have female sports as an afterthought. At least NU has an existing, successful female sport to funnel that money into.
 
I think in some cases people may think the revenue sharing is all for the football team since many discussions involve them. But the revenue sharing is for all athletes including women. Each sport where the university shares revenues will get a percentage of the 22% or 20.5 million. Also the revenue sharing can be considered NIL money because that's what started all of this, but we're still just talking money from the university. Any player that makes a separate NIL deal with 1890 or some business is not part of any revenue sharing deal, and that money has to be split with anyone else.

At least that's my understanding of how it all works.
Calling it revenue sharing would go against this opinion. With the schools distributing these $, it really comes down to, is it payment for participation in a sport or is it payment for a revenue share of broadcast rights?

Ultimately, I think it just plays more into the BIG/SEC super conference. The settlement already will separate those 2 conferences from everyone, there is a lot more money to be made by breaking away and forming their own playoff, and now, conferences aren't subject to Title IX. If it got pressed hard enough, the Big could just hold back $400m of the TV revenue and pay $22m directly to players of each team.
 

But what happens when a donor is willing to fork over 2 million dollars in a private deal for a QB? Seems that is his deal and should have no connection to profit sharing through the university.

We have football and volleyball players doing ads for First National Bank, I assume that is their money and not subject to any university agreements as to profit sharing or 1890 collective money.
The plan is to create a clearinghouse for additional NIL beyond the settlement $. They would determine a valuation for a player and would deem if the deal was legit NIL or just a pay-for-play scheme.

That's why you are seeing these huge deals this year. The clearinghouse isn't in place yet and teams are getting guys signed without restriction before it is.
 
I just don't see how this could be legal since it seems to fly in the face of the whole point of NIL, which is that student athletes are free to earn money off their name, image, and likeness.
It's the DoE, it doesn't have to make sense.

This will be challenged and IMO, lost by the DoE. The DoE isn't even going to be around by the end of 2025 and with all the deference gone from administrator's opinions/creating law, don't expect this to hold up. There's a reason they issued it before Monday.
 
Purely at face value - if schools have to spend equal NIL money on males and females, this bodes well for Nebraska compared to other B1G schools.

I read recently that Nebraska Women's Volleyball was the ONLY FEMALE COLLEGIATE SPORT in the nation to turn a financial profit.

We can easily drop money into our VB team and let John Cook cook.

A lot of other schools have female sports as an afterthought. At least NU has an existing, successful female sport to funnel that money into.
Will LSU football players get more $ to get them on par with Olivia Dunn?

The equal pay will never happen.

The schools are to get a fixed cap and they can distribute it how they want though. For example, someone may do $18M to football and $4M everywhere else. Or a basketball school may just toss in the towel on football and fund more to BB.

In the case of Volleyball, NU would have an advantage because there is true NIL value beyond this cap. A player could come here and do commercials where they would not have that opportunity at another school where nobody would know who they are. Or the school could decide to committ more direct pay, but that would lower what went to FB.
 


The athletes who perform at a higher level and bring revenue at a higher level will expect higher compensation, and all the whining in the world about gender equity isn't going to change that.
Have you followed what happened vis a vis the equal agreement for the men’s and women’s U.S. National soccer teams?
 
This is why we can't have nice things.

;)

If someone has something, everyone wants a piece of it.

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Fantastic...when Title VII and Title IX collide. In one corner, NIL must be shared proportionally, even if the 'contribution' is unequal. In the other corner, one must not discriminate against a person or populace because of 'sex', and artificially devaluing or inflating the NIL value of a person/group because of sex (rather than contribution) would seem to be doing exactly that.
 

Fantastic...when Title VII and Title IX collide. In one corner, NIL must be shared proportionally, even if the 'contribution' is unequal. In the other corner, one must not discriminate against a person or populace because of 'sex', and artificially devaluing or inflating the NIL value of a person/group because of sex (rather than contribution) would seem to be doing exactly that.
It's just a fact sheet, it carries zero weight. Clearly written by people that can't think past the end of their nose.
 

But what happens when a donor is willing to fork over 2 million dollars in a private deal for a QB? Seems that is his deal and should have no connection to profit sharing through the university.

We have football and volleyball players doing ads for First National Bank, I assume that is their money and not subject to any university agreements as to profit sharing or 1890 collective money.
Yes, under this thinking, they are just raising the tide and doing very little for themselves.
This wont fly.
 

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