re: How will LSU adapt to new scholarship limits? Brian Kelly's still trying to sort it out.

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But to remain compliant with Title IX, each school must offer an equal number of scholarships to its male and female athletes. If an athletic department decides to allow, say, its football program to award an extra 20 scholarships, then it must also spread 20 more scholarships across the women’s sports programs it offers.

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If the "student athlete" identifies as a woman does that count?

To hell with the NCAA and title IX. It is a outdated toothless rule and organization. NCAA can't do anything, they cease to exist shortly anyway.

This could get ugly if the players aren't locked in. Why fill a full 105 when the NFL gets by with 50 something plus practice squad? Make it known the we will have 80 players and recruit from the transfer portal every year? If 2022 freshman were willing to take a scholarship just to transfer the next year, why bother paying them in year one going forward? They asked for this

I think 95 would have been a better number.

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Wonder if this ever leads to the revival of JV / freshman leagues.

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it will never happen but i'd LOVE this

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Why does it matter? LSU has plenty of $

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not as much as you think they do.

new roster/scholarship limits across all sports add 242 new athletic scholarships at LSU.

that’s additional expense of over $8mil per year.
Football will reportedly begin paying players directly (not NIL, actual payments) with a cap of around $15 mil per year.

that’s $23 mil more in expenses per year for a department that turned a $1.3 mil profit last year.

and there is NO WAY were just paying football players and not other sports.
or also adding NIL funds for all those additional scholarship player.

so LSU will be well over $20 mil in the negative unless they also find a way to bring in that much more than they already do.

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Thanks for posting this. I didn’t realize how much the limits were changing for the women’s sports.

It actually seems manageable from a Title IX standpoint. If we assume that the men’s revenue sports (football, basketball, baseball) go up to the max, that’s 44.3 additional scholarships that need to be matched on the women’s side. That seems doable. I think what we’re going to see is that the men’s non-revenue sports simply won’t all be able to get up to the scholarship limit.

One interesting aspect about all of this is how the AD has to manage the numbers for each sport. Like.. if LSU football doesn’t get up to 105 in year one, then what? Do they add scholarships in any other men’s sports, or keep them reserved for football? Do they reduce the number of scholarships they add in the women’s sports?

I don’t know the intricacies of how Title IX works, either - does it mean there have to be an equal or greater number of women’s scholarships every year or is there some kind of rolling average?

More room to develop players. The portal still offers the opportunity to patch holes or add the occasional difference maker.

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you can’t transfer them from one sport to the other.

105 is the limit in football 34 in baseball.

you can’t short one team and add them to another.

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That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about Title IX and the presumption that LSU is unlikely to add a full 55 scholarships (for example) between men’s track and swim.

ETA: To clarify, if LSU were to increase scholarships to the full roster limits in every sport, that would mean nearly doubling the amount of athletic scholarships. This is happening alongside revenue sharing. While the cost of scholarships apparently counts towards the revenue sharing cap (meaning they don’t increase the financial impact), every scholarship you offer in a non-revenue sport reduces the amount of money you have available to attract players in the revenue sports.

Of the 235 new scholarships, 44 would be in the men’s revenue sports. That means 191 of your scholarships are in non-revenue sports. I don’t know the exact value of those scholarships, but LSU’s published cost of attendance is ~$27k/year. That’s over $5 million per year in additional scholarships for non-revenue sports, which puts a significant dent in your revenue sharing money. I don’t personally think we will see every sport hit the new scholarship limits for this reason.

Title IX is a factor because presumably, if LSU were to add the full 44 new scholarships in revenue men’s sports then they would also have to add roughly the same number of scholarships in non-revenue women’s sports. This is something the entire athletic department has to manage, but Kelly’s decisions on scholarships for the football program might have a major impact. Hence my question about how the AD manages things if football doesn’t use the full 105 in the first year.