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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.”
Universities cutting sports, others adding ahead of $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement
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.
NCAA Defends House Settlement From Title IX, Opt-Out Appeal
The NCAA insists that while Title IX requires financial aid and athletic scholarships be gender-balanced, it does not mandate “all student-athlete benefits” be gender-balanced.
NCAA, Power Five to House Counsel: Don’t ‘End Run’ Pay-for-Play Ban
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.
Schools on Hook for $303M NCAA Volunteer Coaches Settlement
The NCAA on Thursday announced it finalized a payment structure for a $303 million settlement that resolves a class action brought on behalf of individuals who worked as “volunteer” coaches for schools’ Division I teams, except baseball, sometime between March 17, 2019, and June 30, 2023—the date when the NCAA lifted a bylaw that capped the number of coaches.
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.
