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NCAA House settlement FAQ

AI-assisted summaryThe House vs. NCAA settlement allows direct payment to student-athletes and establishes a revenue sharing model.A College Sports Commission will oversee NIL activities and a clearinghouse called NIL Go will review deals over $600.Participating institutions, primarily Power 5 schools, must adhere to a revenue sharing cap and report NIL deals.The world of college recruiting […]

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AI-assisted summaryThe House vs. NCAA settlement allows direct payment to student-athletes and establishes a revenue sharing model.A College Sports Commission will oversee NIL activities and a clearinghouse called NIL Go will review deals over $600.Participating institutions, primarily Power 5 schools, must adhere to a revenue sharing cap and report NIL deals.The world of college recruiting with name, image, and likeness deals has seemed lawless and ungoverned since it initially became legal in 2021.

Now, power conference schools are allowed to directly pay their student-athletes following the settlement of the House vs. NCAA antitrust cases.

The settlement, which was approved on June 13 by a federal judge in California, sets the stage for a tidal wave of confusion as schools, student-athletes, and their families navigate the uber-legislated college athletics ecosystem.

With the passing of the settlement also comes the formation of the College Sports Commission, which will become the new enforcement arm of college athletics.

The NCAA, along with the defendant conferences, released a 36-page Question & Answer package to address many of the common concerns and hurdles people are experiencing following the settlement.

Here are some of the biggest questions to how college athletics will operate pertaining to NIL under the new House settlement, and how the NCAA answered them in their document, which they released shortly after the settlement was approved:

Who is affected by the House Settlement?

Florida Gators athletic director Scott Stricklin looks at the scoreboard during the second half against the Kentucky Wildcats at Steve Spurrier Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, FL on Saturday, September 10, 2022. [Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun]

The House settlement forced the NCAA to pay nearly $2.8 billion in back damages over the next decade to any student-athlete that competed from 2016 to present day.

Looking forward, the House settlement will have an influence on every Division I athletic program, its administrators and coaching staffs, current and prospective student-athletes, their families, and fans as well.

Any schools named in the settlement or intend on joining by this year’s June 30 cutoff date are referred to as “Participating Institutions.”Who are Participating Institutions?All current members of the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and ACC are part of the new revenue-sharing model.What do Participating Institutions have to do now?The NCAA makes clear the obligations schools have following the settlement, including:Ensure that any additional payments or benefits being provided comply with the benefit cap and cap-related rules, policies and procedures.Report to the cap management reporting system (CAPS):All licenses between the institution and its student-athletes for name, image andlikeness; andAny other payments or benefits provided beyond what was permitted by NCAA Division I rules as of October 7, 2024, assuming such benefits are otherwise permitted by NCAA rules.Report all additional benefits that count against the benefits cap to CAPS and complete the annual attestation by September 1 after the close of each academic year.Adhere to the established roster limits.Agree that the designated enforcement entity (i.e., College Sports Commission) has theauthority to enforce NCAA Bylaws adopted as part of the settlement (e.g., roster limits,additional payments and benefits and noninstitutional NIL).Is there a cap to how much revenue a school can share?In three seasons at Miami, Mario Cristobal has compiled a record of 22-16.Yes. Schools are permitted to distribute up to 22-percent of the average revenue between the Power-5 conferences from media rights, ticket sales, and sponsorships. This is known as the revenue sharing cap or benefits cap, and is the maximum dollar amount a school may provide to its student-athletes during an academic year.What is the revenue sharing cap under the new House Settlement?The benefits cap for 2025-26 is set for $20.5 million and is expected to rise. A 4% bump is expected every year for the first three years, with a full recalculation after year four.How is the House Settlement’s revenue sharing cap calculated?First, participating schools from the five conferences (plus Notre Dame) enter their revenue into eight categories; ticket sales, input revenue from participation in away games, media rights revenue, NCAA distributions and grants, non-media conference distributions, direct revenue from participation in bowl games (as well as conference distributions from bowl revenues), and athletics department revenues from sponsorships, royalties, licensing agreements and advertisements.The cap is then found by pulling 22% from the sum of the revenue generated by the eight defined categories.Do NIL deals count towards the revenue sharing cap?Topeka native NiJaree Canady is the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and signed a record-breaking NIL deal to play her junior year as a Texas Tech Red Raider. Canady hopes to represent Team USA in the 2028 Olympics.Yes and no. NIL deals paid from a source outside of the school, or a third-party, does not count towards the revenue sharing cap. Other funds distributed from student assistance funds or third-party grants/awards are also exempt from the benefits cap up to a certain amount.However, if a player is receiving funds directly from a school for NIL purposes, that money will be counted against the benefits cap.What money counts against the revenue sharing cap under the House SettlementAny money a player receives directly from a schools for NIL uses is applicable to the benefits cap. Any other direct payment or additional benefits a player or their family receives that is not exempted by NCAA rules is also fair game.Academic and graduation awards (like Alston Awards) also count towards the cap, but only up to $2.5 million. The same is true for athletically-related financial aid that exceeds the 2024-25 academic year limits.How will NIL deals be regulated after the House Settlement?President of the NCAA, Charlie Baker speaks during a press conference celebrating the 25 year anniversary of the NCAA moving its national office to Indianapolis on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, at the NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis.All NIL deals, from all student-athletes, that are worth more than $600 must be processed and approved by the new clearinghouse, NIL Go.

NIL Go is run by Deloitte, a major consulting firm. It’s works as an online portal that student-athletes, schools, and third-party payees will use to verify that an NIL deal meets the criteria of a true third-party deal.

All players must submit deals to NIL Go within five business days of execution of the contract. From there, Deloitte and NIL Go will determine if the deal meets “valid business purposes” for an NIL contract.

Who is enforcing the new rules under the House Settlement?

The College Sports Commission will oversee NIL Go. The CSC was created by the major conferences to act as a self-policing arm of the NIL era. The CSC, headed up by former MLB executive Bryan Seeley, will determine if schools break any rules and then determine the appropriate punishments.

Seeley answers directly only to the Power-4 commissioners that hired him to police their conferences.

How will NIL Go judge if a deal is valid?

When the player agrees to the NIL contract or payment terms, it must include the promotion or endorsement of goods or services provided to the general public for profit. Otherwise, it is not a valid third-part deal and will be rejected by the clearinghouse.

Deloitte recently shared data that 70% of past NIL payments from boosters and collectives would have been denied under the current scrutiny.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey talks with the media during SEC Media Days at Grand Bohemian Hotel on Oct. 16, 2024.

How do multiyear agreements count against the revenue sharing cap?

Additional payments promised in multiyear agreements are counted against a Participating Institution’s benefits cap in the year that the payments and/or benefits are provided.

For example, if a player signs a two-year agreement for $100,000 through 2025-27, the first $100,000 would count towards the school’s cap in 2025-26, and the second $100,000 would count against the 2026-27 cap.

If the contract includes incentives, the total amount of incentives will count against the cap of the year that they promised. If the player fails to meet the criteria for the incentive, the amount is removed from the cap at the end of the year.

Who is a third-party under the House Settlement, and who isn’t?

Because where a money originates from decides whether or not it counts towards the cap, determining true third-parties is more essential than ever.

Associated entities/individuals are anyone that is known to have promoted a school’s athletics program, created or identified NIL opportunities, assisted in recruiting, or contributed more than $50,000 over their lifetime to a school (for individuals).

Are boosters considered associated individuals under the House Settlement?

Boosters are not automatically considered associated individuals. However, any booster or “Representative of Athletic Interests” defined by NCAA Bylaw 13.02.16 would automatically become an associated individual by the definitions set forth in the House Settlement and NCAA bylaws.

How do transfers and buyouts work under the new House Settlement?

Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Nico Iamaleava (8) throws during the second half of the College Football Playoff first round game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Dec. 22, 2024. Ohio State won 42-17.

Every contract is different, but the principles will be the same throughout. If a player transfers out of a school before the end of their contract, the school is only obligated to pay the terms of the contract that are valid up to the date they enter the portal. Any money that would have been owed to the player that transferred out can be removed from the benefits cap.

Take for example, a player that signs a deal that pays $100,000 per year over the course of two years. If the player transfers out before the start of the second year of the contract, the school is off the hook for the back end of the contract because it was never owed or due.

If there is a buyout clause in a player’s contract, the school that the player is transferring into must pay the entirety of the buyout to the school that the player departed from. The buyout also counts against the paying school’s cap, but cannot be added to the receiving school’s cap.

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Argument over ‘valid business purpose’ for NIL collectives threatens college sports settlement | Sports

Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image and likeness payments to players are supposed to have. The new College Sports Commission sent a letter to athletic directors last week saying it was […]

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Less than two weeks after terms of a multibillion-dollar college sports settlement went into effect, friction erupted over the definition of a “valid business purpose” that collectives making name, image and likeness payments to players are supposed to have.

The new College Sports Commission sent a letter to athletic directors last week saying it was rejecting deals in which players were receiving money from collectives that were created solely to pay them and don’t provide goods or services to the general public for profit.

A lead attorney for the players responded by saying those instructions went against settlement terms and asking the CSC to rescind the guidance.

“This process is undermined when the CSC goes off the reservation and issues directions to the schools that are not consistent with the Settlement Agreement terms,” attorney Jeffrey Kessler wrote to NCAA outside counsel Rakesh Kilaru in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Yahoo Sports first reported details of the letter, in which Kessler threatens to take the issue to a judge assigned with resolving disputes involved in the settlement.

Kessler told the AP that his firm was not commenting on the contents of the letter, and Kilaru did not immediately respond to the AP’s request for comment.

Yahoo quoted a CSC spokesman as saying the parties are working to resolve differences and that “the guidance issued by the College Sports Commission … is entirely consistent with the House settlement and the rules that have been agreed upon with class counsel.”

When NIL payments became allowed in 2021, boosters formed so-called collectives that were closely tied to universities to work out contracts with the players, who still weren’t allowed to be paid directly by the schools.

Terms of the House settlement allow schools to make the payments now but keep the idea of outside payments from collectives, which have to be approved by the CSC if they are worth $600 or more.

The CSC, in its letter last week, explained that if a collective reaches a deal, for instance, for an athlete to appear on behalf of the collective, which charges an admission fee, that collective does not have a “valid business purpose” because the purpose of the event is to raise money to pay athletes, not to provide goods or services available to the general public for profit.

Another example of a disallowed deal was one an athlete makes to sell merchandise to raise money to pay that player because, the CSC guidance said, the purpose of “selling merchandise is to raise money to pay that student-athlete and potentially other student-athletes at a particular school or schools, which is not a valid business purpose.”

Kessler’s letter notes that the “valid business purpose” rule was designed to ensure athletes were not simply being paid to play, and did not prohibit NIL collectives from paying athletes for the type of deals described above.

To prevent those payments “would be to create a new prohibition on payments by a NIL collective that is not provided for or contemplated by the Settlement Agreement, causing injury to the class members who should be free to receive those payments,” Kessler wrote.


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Lesser-Known Sports that Get Attention at Online Sportsbooks

Last Updated on July 15, 2025 The spectacular thing about online sports betting is that it casts a much wider net than land-based bookies. The reason online sportsbooks can afford to do something like that is because they have fans from all over the world. That means there is a much larger diversity of interests […]

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The spectacular thing about online sports betting is that it casts a much wider net than land-based bookies. The reason online sportsbooks can afford to do something like that is because they have fans from all over the world. That means there is a much larger diversity of interests than land-based shops, that must cater to their local customers.

Of course, online sportsbooks do cover all of the most popular sports you can imagine. Football and basketball are staples at the Novibet online betting platform. But, for those who wish to delve just a bit deeper, there are plenty of other options to choose from. In this article, we are focusing on some lesser-known sports that get attention at online sportsbooks.

Darts

Darts is at the top of the list. Most people may not even realize that there is a worldwide darts competition. Professional darts players may have success in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. But, most of the rest of the world is unaware that professional darts even exists. Well, online sportsbooks are starting to change that.

By covering the latest darts competitions, bookmakers have elevated the popularity of the sport, almost single-handedly. Today, professional darts is more popular than it has ever been before. The sport is growing a large following in the United States, which is good because the USA has one of the largest online sports betting markets in the world.

Water Polo

Water sports are often overlooked. Most people are familiar with competitive swimming, of course. But, water polo gets a raw deal in terms of popularity. Which is a shame, because the sport can get quite exciting. It has a pretty large following in Germany, Austria, Croatia, and Serbia. But, other markets just don’t seem to have much interest in it.

Yet, water polo has popped off at online sportsbooks. The coverage that water polo gets online is pretty intense, considering its popularity outside of betting. Like with darts, the attention the sport receives at online sportsbooks helps get more people interested in the games themselves. Recently, water polo’s popularity has grown by a pretty large margin. Who knows, maybe in ten years it will rival volleyball.

eSports

It is tough to include something like eSports on this list. For one, eSports is the fastest-growing market in the world of sports betting. Not only that, but the popularity of the phenomenon is greater now than ever before. Yet, it is hard to say that the average person follows eSports, or even knows what the word may refer to. For those who don’t know, eSports is another word for competitive gaming.

The eSports betting market has exceeded all expectations at online sportsbooks. Games like League of Legends and Fortnite are especially successful. However, even lesser-known games are getting the attention of the big-name titles. It seems gamers are very invested in betting on their hobby. There are even talks of legitimizing eSports as a sport proper. Whether that happens any time soon remains to be seen. What is certain is that eSports have a long future in sports betting.



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“I wasn’t even good enough to get free stuff” – Charles Barkley recalls his underappreciated recruitment compared to today’s NIL deals.

“I wasn’t even good enough to get free stuff” – Charles Barkley recalls his underappreciated recruitment compared to today’s NIL deals. originally appeared on Basketball Network. In the recent rise of NIL deals in the new era of college sports, Charles Barkley’s recruitment story shows the difference between college athletes now and then. Advertisement When Barkley, […]

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“I wasn’t even good enough to get free stuff” – Charles Barkley recalls his underappreciated recruitment compared to today’s NIL deals. originally appeared on Basketball Network.

In the recent rise of NIL deals in the new era of college sports, Charles Barkley’s recruitment story shows the difference between college athletes now and then.

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When Barkley, one of the most iconic basketball figures of all time, entered college at Auburn, he wasn’t heavily recruited; in fact, he had only three options: UAB, Alabama and Auburn. He chose the latter because of the immediate impact he could have there, not for the money, unlike the college athletes nowadays.

“I wasn’t even good enough to get free stuff,” recalled Chuck during an interview with Graham Bensinger on YouTube.

Barkley’s experiences might shock the newer generations who have been around the latest college sports landscape. The idea was that players were viewed as athletes who were there to receive a free college education rather than making connections and gaining financial opportunities through their NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals.

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A new age of recruitment is upon us. NIL deals have transformed the recruiting process mainly for Division I college athletes. However, top prospects who are both standout players and athletes earn more money, depending on their marketability.

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High school prospect A.J. Dybantsa, the No. 1 overall high school recruit according to ESPN’s 100 rankings and No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NBA Mock Draft, has an NIL valuation north of $4 million, making him the top earner in this upcoming NCAA season. Something that old-school legends like Barkley could never have imagined while in college.

While earning that kind of money seems great, it’s a double-edged sword. Athletes nowadays have to perform on the court while also maintaining their brand to continue securing this kind of money, a pressure that players like Barkley didn’t face; their sole focus was on their education and on-court performances.

Related: “He was a son of a b—-. To put it mildly…” – Dominique Wilkins thinks Kawhi Leonard wouldn’t stand a chance guarding prime Larry Bird

The change in college sports

Although the new system clearly has benefits, fans will argue that the NCAA’s business-first mentality has resulted in a loss of purity for the game.

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When Barkley was in college, athletes weren’t even thinking about personal branding or financial opportunities; they weren’t even thinking about the NBA. Their main goal was to earn a degree and get a chance to play in the best league in the world.

“I wasn’t even thinking about the NBA, I was just thinking about going to college for free,” he emphasized about his sole purpose for college ball.

A significant shift from today’s view, where athletes with a large social media following coming out of high school often don’t even need to be exceptionally talented to have NIL deals waiting for them.

For example, Mikey Williams, who has a massive social media following and was the No. 34 overall prospect in the 2023 class, has generated a $2.3 million NIL valuation despite currently attending Sacramento State University. This money was unimaginable to the college players when Barkley played.

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Many fans find it difficult to grasp the evolution of college basketball since the days of all-time greats like Chuckster. And with NIL deals gaining traction, the transformation is still underway, shaping a future that’s bound to keep progressing.

The question is, will it affect the NBA and overseas basketball, with players declining the option to go pro and instead staying in college to cash in on their hefty deals?

Related: “Because making all this money on these kids and not educating them is a travesty” – When Charles Barkley slammed the NCAA’s $11B industry for failing student-athletes

This story was originally reported by Basketball Network on Jul 15, 2025, where it first appeared.



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They pulled off huge March Madness upsets. Now they’re opting out of revenue sharing

Associated Press Saint Peter’s, Fairleigh Dickinson and Maryland-Baltimore County — three schools that have taken March Madness by storm at various points in the past decade — have declined to opt in to college sports’ new revenue sharing model. The newly formed College Sports Commission, which oversees revenue sharing following the House settlement, posted a […]

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Saint Peter’s, Fairleigh Dickinson and Maryland-Baltimore County — three schools that have taken March Madness by storm at various points in the past decade — have declined to opt in to college sports’ new revenue sharing model.

The newly formed College Sports Commission, which oversees revenue sharing following the House settlement, posted a list of schools that have opted into revenue sharing. All members of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference are participating, and other Division I schools had to opt in or out by June 30.

Saint Peter’s, which reached the men’s Elite Eight as a No. 15 seed in 2022, did not opt in. Iona and Manhattan, who play with Saint Peter’s in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, didn’t either.

UMBC and Fairleigh Dickinson, the only two teams to pull off a 16-over-1 upset in the men’s basketball tournament, opted out as well. Fairleigh Dickinson is part of the Northeast Conference, which had just one school — Long Island University — opt in.

“It’s expensive to opt in,” Idaho athletic director Terry Gawlik told the Lewiston Tribune. “We don’t have that kind of money to pay for that.”

Idaho is one of several Big Sky schools opting out.

In addition to the costs of sharing revenue directly with athletes, Title IX concerns and scholarship limitations are among the reasons a school might opt out.

“Revenue sharing and scholarship limits are really one piece, but the big thing for us is the roster limitation,” Central Arkansas athletic director Matt Whiting told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette while explaining his school’s decision to opt out.

Military rules prevent Navy, Air Force, and Army from compensating athletes through name, image and likeness deals, but aside from them, the Football Bowl Subdivision leagues have full participation in the settlement.

Other conferences with all full members opting in included the Atlantic 10, Big East, Coastal Athletic, Horizon, Missouri Valley, Southwestern Athletic, Western Athletic and West Coast. The Big West had everyone opt in except Cal Poly and UC Davis, which play football in the Big Sky.

Nebraska-Omaha is the lone full member of the Summit League to opt out, and Tennessee State is the only full Ohio Valley member to do so.

The Ivy League said in January that its eight schools — which do not award athletic scholarships — would not participate. The Patriot League didn’t have any full members opt in either, although Fordham, Georgetown and Richmond — associate members who play football in that conference — did.

Of the 68 schools that made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament last year, only American, Nebraska-Omaha, Saint Francis and Yale have opted out of revenue sharing. Five schools that made the women’s tournament opted out: Columbia, Fairleigh Dickinson, Harvard, Lehigh and Princeton.

Commissioners of historically Black conferences have expressed concern that the push to make athletes school employees could potentially destroy athletic programs — but the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Southwestern Athletic Conference had everyone opt in except North Carolina Central.

Some schools that don’t play Division I football or basketball opted in — such as Johns Hopkins with its storied lacrosse program. Augusta University, which is located in the same town as the Masters and perhaps unsurprisingly competes in Division I in golf, was on the list of teams opting in.

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Title IX Goes Head to Head with Antitrust: NCAA NIL Settlement Challenged by Female Student-Athletes in House v. NCAA | Venable LLP

For anyone who thought an unprecedented $2.8 billion settlement agreement actually resolved one of the many murky issues of student-athlete compensation in college athletics —not so fast. On June 6, federal Judge Claudia Wilken officially approved the class action antitrust lawsuit House v. NCAA. The landmark settlement turned the amateurism model of athletics in higher […]

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For anyone who thought an unprecedented $2.8 billion settlement agreement actually resolved one of the many murky issues of student-athlete compensation in college athletics —not so fast. On June 6, federal Judge Claudia Wilken officially approved the class action antitrust lawsuit House v. NCAA. The landmark settlement turned the amateurism model of athletics in higher education on its head and is set to provide back pay to Division I student-athletes for name, image, and likeness (NIL) earnings. While it took five years of litigation to get approval of the settlement, it took just five days for a group of plaintiffs to appeal it.

NCAA NIL Settlement in House v. NCAA Faces Immediate Title IX Challenge

On June 11, a group of female student-athlete plaintiffs in House noticed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals registering their objection to the back-pay provision of the final settlement. Although no appellate briefs have been filed yet, these female student-athletes are expected to assert that the settlement’s terms for paying out back-pay damages violates the prohibition on sex discrimination under Title IX because the settlement is set to overwhelmingly pay out most of the back-pay damages to male athletes.

Allegations of Unequal NIL Compensation Based on Gender

More specifically, the settlement’s formula for paying out back-pay damages has allocated 75% of the fund to men’s football players and 15% to men’s basketball players in the five premiere athletic conferences in NCAA Division I, with only 5% of the damages fund allocated to women’s basketball players and the remaining 5% to all other student-athletes.

Proponents of this formula argue that it tracks the gross revenue averages of college sports, and accordingly football players should get the biggest piece of the pie. Opponents, including the appealing female student-athletes, argue that the back-pay damages formula in the agreement will pay male athletes 90% more than female athletes, which they assert is an unlawful disparity based on gender.

The anticipated argument is, essentially, that if the schools and/or the NCAA on behalf of schools had allocated 90% of their revenue to the male athletes during the plaintiffs’ college athletic careers, then they clearly would have violated Title IX’s requirement to provide “substantially proportionate” financial assistance to male and female student-athletes. In short, the schools would not have met their obligation to ensure equitable opportunities for both men’s and women’s sports programs.

Judge Wilken’s view in approving the settlement was that the litigation was an antitrust case, not a Title IX case, and the Title IX compliance, unionization, and collective bargaining issues are outside the scope of the House litigation. She nonetheless left the door open to a Title IX challenge on appeal, indicating that future lawsuits can be filed if the way that schools compensate athletes violates Title IX. Despite the appeal putting the brakes on the payout of back-pay damages under the settlement, the other terms of the agreement were left uninterrupted and went into effect on July 1. This includes roster limits, scholarship limits, and the rules regarding direct pay and revenue-sharing with student-athletes.

What’s Next: Ninth Circuit to Weigh Title IX and NIL Backpay

The Ninth Circuit now has an opportunity to weigh in on whether Title IX does have a bearing on these back-pay damages. It may simply decide that Judge Wilken did or did not abuse her discretion in approving the settlement. Or it could take on the larger controversial and contested issue: How does Title IX apply to NIL payments and revenue sharing with student-athletes, and does the revenue-sharing model set forth under the settlement agreement terms for future compensation for student-athletes run afoul of Title IX?

Regardless of how far-reaching the Ninth Circuit’s opinion ultimately goes in the House appeal this is not the last Title IX challenge we will see to the allocation of direct payments and revenue sharing funds to student-athletes in the near future.

The federal government’s current position on the issue of direct pay and revenue sharing with regard to Title IX does not currently provide decisive direction to courts that may grapple with this issue in the future. The U.S. Department of Education guidance under the Biden administration indicated payments to student-athletes would have been considered “athletic financial assistance,” which requires proportional allocation among male and female athletes at a given institution. The Trump administration rescinded that guidance in February, and in the current landscape, it is unclear whether compensating student-athletes will be viewed by the Office of Civil Rights—the agency division tasked with Title IX enforcement—as subject to Title IX.

Division I schools have been mulling over their options since the proposed settlement agreement was under review. However, the thorny issues of direct pay to student-athletes, equitable sports programming, and NIL deals are not reserved exclusively for D-1 schools and their athletic departments—any college or university with an athletic program should closely track the developments in federal and state law in this space.



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Vandal Soccer to Host WSU, BSU as Part of 2025 Schedule

Story Links MOSCOW, Idaho – Idaho Vandal soccer plays host to Washington State, Boise State, South Dakota, and UTEP in non-conference play while traveling to Washington, Grand Canyon, Bakersfield and making an East Coast swing to face UMass Lowell and Stonehill College.   In Big Sky play, Idaho welcomes Montana, […]

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MOSCOW, Idaho – Idaho Vandal soccer plays host to Washington State, Boise State, South Dakota, and UTEP in non-conference play while traveling to Washington, Grand Canyon, Bakersfield and making an East Coast swing to face UMass Lowell and Stonehill College.
 
In Big Sky play, Idaho welcomes Montana, Eastern Washington, Northern Colorado and Northern Arizona to the dome while traveling to Idaho State, Weber State, Sacramento State and Portland State.
 
The schedule is among the best in program history and includes some of the Northwest’s top programs.

Idaho opens the season with a pair of exhibition games in early August. The Vandals welcome in West Coast Conference team Gonzaga on Monday, Aug. 4 before traveling to Oregon to play the Big Ten member Ducks on Friday, Aug. 8.

 

The regular season opens in the dome with a contest against UC Riverside on Aug. 14 before closing out the week against Big Ten Washington on Sunday, Aug. 17 in Seattle.

 

The Vandals have a Northeast swing with games against UMass Lowell on Aug. 21 before playing Stonehill College (Mass.) on Aug. 23.

 

Idaho hosts Washington State on Aug. 28, South Dakota on Aug. 31 and UTEP on Sept. 4 before heading road to play at Grand Canyon on Sept. 11 and CSU Bakersfield on Sept. 14.

 

The Vandals host Boise State on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. to close out non-conference play.

 

Idaho hits the road for games against Idaho State (Sept. 25), Weber State (Sept. 28) and Sacramento State (Oct. 2) to open Big Sky Conference action.

 

Montana comes to the dome on Oct. 5 followed by Eastern Washington on Oct. 12.

 

The Vandals’ final road game will be at Portland State on Oct. 19 before closing the season with home games against Northern Colorado (Oct. 24) and Northern Arizona (Oct. 26).

 

Idaho has played in the Big Sky Championship match each of the last three seasons, winning the title in 2023.

 

Season tickets are on sale now at GoVandals.com/Tickets.

 



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