Per Verge, LSU rev share has changed. Baseball and WBB to each get about 5%.

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In the first year of revenue sharing, LSU followed many departments nationwide with the 75-15-5-5 method. That meant football got a 75 percent cut. Men’s basketball got 15 percent. Women’s basketball got five percent, and the rest of the sports were allotted portions of the remaining five.

“Moving forward, we’re going to make sure that baseball, their rev share is going up,” Ausberry said. “We’re also going to have more money for them for NIL. I’ve been meeting with Jay about that. He had some concerns about where we were and some things we had to do, and we met this week on that.”

Johnson confirmed the meeting to LouisianaSports.net and expressed his confidence in LSU’s AD moving forward.

“I am very fortunate to be working with Verge,” Johnson said. “He was instrumental in hiring me at LSU, and he played a large part in our two national championships. He knows the importance of baseball at LSU. We had a great meeting this week, and I have full confidence in his leadership and commitment to help me make LSU baseball the best it can be.”

That additional baseball revenue distribution is not expected to come at the expense of football or either basketball program. Ausberry said the department plans to fund those big four along with softball and gymnastics in the next school year. International or Olympic sports like track and swimming, among others, could be allotted more scholarship money to add additional players.

“Coming into next year, women’s basketball and baseball are probably going to be about the same number, about five percent,” Ausberry said. “I’ve only been on the job for four months. It wasn’t done that way before, but we’re going to do that. At the same time, we really helped baseball what we call “front loading” some money. We did that for them, and we raised a lot of money for baseball. So, we caught them up.

“We’re going to do everything in our power here, myself, President Rousse and the rest of our team, to make sure Jay Johnson gets what it takes to win in college baseball.”

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