The NCAA and Power Five conferences filed their formal response Monday to House v. NCAA class counsel’s motion to enforce the settlement, arguing the plaintiffs are effectively trying to “rewrite” the agreement to preempt the first scheduled arbitration over a ruling by the College Sports Commission.
This week should be an exciting one for athletes on Marshall’s women’s swimming and dive team, who are competing at the American Athletic Conference championships in Greensboro, N.C., through Saturday. Instead it has become, in the words of a parent of one of the swimmers, a “whirlwind of emotions” following the news that the university has decided to cut the team at the end of the season. That means as many 30 scholarship athletes will need to decide whether to transfer or end their college careers when the conference tournament is over.
Gardner-Webb University announced a strategic restructuring of its athletics sponsorship offerings designed to strengthen Gardner-Webb’s position in the evolving Division I landscape by aligning resources with long-term priorities and expanding opportunities for student-athletes. The restructuring will add women’s flag football and women’s acrobatics and tumbling while discontinuing the men’s and women’s tennis programs. Both tennis programs will conclude competition following the 2026 season.
“There’s no mood for consolidating more money in Power Two conferences at the expense of all the other conferences and small to mid-size schools because that’s just going to accelerate the trend of cutting Olympic or women’s sports,” said Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), a former Division I volleyball player who sits on the committee of jurisdiction.
E60’s Jeremy Schaap unpacks the seismic shift that has transformed college athletics from an amateur ideal into a high-stakes marketplace.
America’s dominance in the Olympics may be impacted by a shakeup in college sports funding, with schools potentially cutting programs.
Olympic and non-revenue sports are facing an uncertain — and in many cases, grim — future.
Over the past three months, a growing number of universities have added or dropped entire sports programs on the eve of dramatic changes coming to college athletics under the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement.
“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