E60: Paid To Play
E60’s Jeremy Schaap unpacks the seismic shift that has transformed college athletics from an amateur ideal into a high-stakes marketplace.
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USA Today: Congress pulls major college sports bill after bipartisan backlash: ‘Not ready for prime time’
“The SCORE Act (college sports) is well-intended but falls short and is not ready for prime time. I will vote no,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).
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Sport Venture Group Launches nation.enterprises inc.
Sport Venture Group Launches nation.enterprises inc., Unifying Youth to Collegiate Olympic Sport Pathways.
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Bloomberg Law: NCAA Settlement Forcing Cuts to College Teams in Olympic Sports
Roughly 41 Olympic sports programs have been cut across NCAA Division I, affecting at least 1,000 student-athletes after the settlement was announced by the NCAA in May 2024, said Sam Seemes, CEO of the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
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Sports Business Journal: Collateral damage: The NCAA settlement puts Olympic and non-revenue sports on the brink
Olympic and non-revenue sports are facing an uncertain — and in many cases, grim — future.
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Front Office Sports: Dozens of Olympic Sports Have Been Cut in Wake of House v. NCAA Settlement
“We are concerned that the new financial obligations placed on schools will force administrators to divert their attention and resources away from non-football and non-basketball sports – the programs where the majority of NCAA student-athletes participate,” the coaching associations for volleyball, wrestling, track and field, and swimming and diving wrote in a joint statement after the settlement was approved. “This is no hypothetical. Budget cuts and program eliminations have already taken place in anticipation of today’s outcome, and more are likely to follow.”
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Sports Business Journal: SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey sounds off on changing college sports landscape
“Not that anyone listens to my football media days speeches, but in 2019, the line was, ‘When you change the economics of college sports, you alter the Olympic development program in this country,’” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey
