The imbalance will eventually topple the whole thing down, so the sooner the better. I hope I live long enough to see the rebuild.

Inevitable ...Call it a .... "Curt Flood"  Effect...
Once money is involved you have to treat these people like a professionals, like.(Pros)... You have to pay Professionals...it was inevitable.....We will just have to make the adjustments and compete.....Simple
Good thing that we got a Billionaire, like Labron James.... on our side. !!!!

Go Dukes !!!
 

Last edited by CalDuke (5/24/2024 1:29 pm)

A friend sent me this PG Article on how the House Law Suit Settlement could affect small schools like Duquesne and RMU. Not a good outlook.

https://pge.post-gazette.com/.pf/showstory/202405200113/3

Duquesne and all the other members of the 17 non power conferences who are losing money already
should form another alliance and leave the NCAA . Duquesne does not have the money to waste being involved with Power schools like Ohio State and  paying players 20 million dollars to play.
Duquesne has no business in professional sports  and paying players,the mission of the University should be to educate.A athletic scholarship and a reasonable stipend for economically disadvantaged athletes is all Duquesne  should be doing.
 When the big boys have their March Madness without the small schools interest will drop and kill viewership.The small schools make March Madness what it is.
Tuition to go to Duquesne is ridiculous already,hate to see any more financial burden placed on small private schools and having sports programs cut to benefit the rich and powerful schools.
 

stew wrote:

Duquesne has no chance of winning a NCAA Division 1 national championship in any sport.The Dukes lack
facilities and a large alumni fanbase to fund this nonsense.

I think I would modify this to any "revenue" sport, since revenue is the deciding factor in being able to compete or even participate.

That $21 million cap won’t last long once they start trying to dole out the money to around 85 “scholarship” football players on a P-5 roster! How much will be left for men’s and women’s basketball, wrestling, volleyball, baseball, etc.?
Title 9 was mentioned only briefly in the Trib article, but I don’t see how they can ignore splitting the money with women’s sports?  How can the counter-balance the payments to those 85-football players with equal payments to female athletes?  I don’t see how the $21-million ends up providing huge payouts to individual athletes with so many players to pay.  So, this NIL will most likely still be used for the huge sums going to the top 5-star players.

The NCAA should right now from the start establish a minimum wage for every scholarship athlete mens and women right down to chess players. Then have an over-all cap on what any collage can spend, so what ever is left is spent both meager and wisely. Then right there it's all fair. But, you know the NCAA are spineless fools and will let this go crazy first, and then, they will try but can't  reel this thing in before it's out of control. They should! But they are spineless.

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/historic-house-case-settlement-has-college-basketball-not-college-football-to-thank-for-saving-the-ncaa/

This is an enlightening article that points out the impact on mid-major conferences. Many quotes from Bernadette McGlade regarding A10 issues and impacts.

Wow. This is a tremendously aggravating article. "We don't have a say in it. We're stuck. They can just do it," Big Sky commissioner Tom Wistricill told CBS Sports. "It's devastation without representation.", WCC commissioner Stu Jackson- "It's analogous to being in a boat in the open ocean on a fairly clear day, and then all of the sudden just getting hit by one of the worst storms possible. That's what it felt like," Mcglade said "Do we have to reduce our scholarship funding in other sports to stay competitive in basketball? Every school is going to have to look in the mirror and make that decision,"

Remember back when paying college players was supposed to be about them being able to pay to get pizza and go on a date? 

Mid-Major leagues should sue the NCAA and the Power 5 leagues for anti-trust monopolies and unfai trade practices,  and make them pay up proportion to the size difference and State backed schools have unfair competition advantages on tax payers money? Since college players are now paid professionals and Power 5 programs have all along made large profits for years off the system  they should be viewed as monopolies and made to pay up.