Coach Calipari has some suggestions for the NCAA in his new book

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Among his ideas presented in "Players First: Coaching From the Inside Out," which is scheduled to be published on Tuesday, the WSJ reported that Calipari presents a 13-point plan for NCAA reform. Among them:

• Players should receive a stipend between $3,000 to $5,000;

• The NCAA should cover eligible players' insurance premiums;

• Athletes should be able to accept loans up to $50,000 against future earnings;

• If a coach leaves an institution, players should be able to transfer from that program without having to sit out a season;

• Athletes should be allowed one round-trip flight home every year.

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Players should receive a stipend between $3,000 to $5,000;

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Title IX of the Equal Opportunity Act, in pertinent part, states that “[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” While this statute was originally drafted to apply to “any education program,” most Title IX lawsuits today involve college athletics.

Past case law explains that Title IX prevents discriminatory practices by colleges in creating athletic teams and providing athletic scholarships. However, Title IX does not directly touch upon whether there is a requirement of equal financial terms for all student-athletes, above and beyond their athletic scholarships.

Courts have rarely analyzed Title IX in terms of pay — perhaps because NCAA members have historically fixed student-athlete pay at $0 despite the obvious antitrust risks of doing so.

However, in those rare instances where pay issues have emerged under Title IX, courts have typically viewed the act as coextensive with the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Thus, courts have upheld greater pay for male coaches where the male coaches’ work has been found to involve greater “skill, effort or responsibility.”

While the terms “skill, effort or responsibility” are rather opaque, the ability to generate revenue is one factor that seems to fall reasonably within this criteria. For example, in Stanley v. University of Southern California, 13 F.3d 1313 (9th Cir. 1994), the U.S. Court for Appeals for the Ninth Circuit noted that it may be permissible for the University of Southern California to offer higher pay to its men’s basketball coach because the men’s team generated far greater annual revenues.

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I agree with everything besides the $50k loan. This will get a lot of kids in trouble

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A $5000 stipend is workable within Title IX. It would take some work, but it is quite doable. And this is without a reorg, which is coming, and overestimating the number of scholarship athletes in D1.

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