re: Texas Tech has rolled out their revenue sharing plan; expect LSU and others to do similar

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Huh? That is not my understanding. This is money the universities never got before so it is "bonus money". Isn't this money coming from the NCAA and/or conferences that makes billions of dollars off of college sports which wasn't shared with the universities as much as it should have been. If this isn't correct, where is the money coming from?

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not new money at all.
it's now schools sharing a portion of their revenue from the previous fiscal year (up to 22% of the average Power 5 school's athletic revenue).

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As part of the House v. NCAA proposed settlement, schools will be allowed to share athletic department revenues with their varsity athletes beginning in the 2025-26 academic year. While not finalized, under the proposed revenue sharing model, NCAA I schools will be allowed to distribute revenue to their athletes up to 22% of the average Power 5 School annual athletic revenue, subject to a tentative revenue sharing cap of $ 20.5 million per school for the 2025-26 year

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NCAA REVENUE SHARING & NIL ESTIMATES 2025




they take the average of all Power 5 schools revenues to arrive at a "salary cap"
schools can then choose whether or not to participate in revenue sharing (all the big ones will, obviously).

it's then up to the schools to operate their own budgets accordingly.

scholarship limits are also going up next year across the board.

LSU will be somewhere around:
$3 million in new scholarships.
$20.5 million in revenue sharing

in 2023, LSU Athletics showed a $1.36 million profit (before donating Money to LSU Academics).

that leaves an additional $22 million LSU needs to find.
either by increasing cost of everything, or seriously cutting spending somewhere.

that's not even taking into account the new Basketball arena that will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 million sprinkled in somewhere.

or the fact that the NCAA is withholding $2 mil from each school for the next 10 years to foot their bill in that lawsuit they lost recently.

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The new revenue-sharing model will fundamentally alter financial management within LSU's athletic department and others nationwide. Universities will now allocate up to 22% of their athletic revenue to player compensation, which, combined with other benefits, could mean nearly half of a department's revenue going to athletes, according to NCAA president Charlie Baker.

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NCAA Settlement: LSU Athletic Director’s Take



so schools will have to get creative with their budgets now.

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This will 100% be the death of title IX

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It should be. If you are going to force schools to pay players then you shouldn't force them to have players that bring in no revenue and then also have to pay those players.

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TT has 2 young BILLIONAIRES (early 40's) that are bankrolling and helping support Athletics. They have the money and want their alma mater to compete for Championships and have first class facilities to draw athletes. Several years ago, Cody Cambell wrote a $25,000,000 check to improve the football facilities. TT recently hired ULL softball coach Gerry Glascow by tripling his salary and giving him lots of money to pay his players. IIRC, 6 ULL players followed GG to TT and they each received a major increase in NIL $$$.

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Didn't they also get the pitcher from Stanford? Spent over a Million on her.

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If you are going to force schools to pay players

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schools aren't being "forced" to pay.
they're being "allowed" to pay.

Only fair way to do this is whatever % each sport contributes from tv, ticket sales, merchandise, concessions, is the percentage that your sport receives

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I’m sure there will be a lot of really thoughtful opinions about the disparity across sports

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And other divisions ( NAIA: D2, etc)

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This will 100% be the death of title IX

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Title IX died when the first dude was allowed to play on the girls team. It’s just been a protracted death.

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Shouldn’t it go off how much revenue that sport pulled in?

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yes but that is not the world we currently live in....WNBA for example.

The ONLY sports that net a profit at LSU are football and MBB. And it is the SEC media package that funds much of that profit.

The SEC media package is rising dramatically in 25-26. That new income will help fund the revenue sharing in SEC athletics.