Roster limits, revenue sharing and new NIL rules are announced by NCAA

The NCAA makes changes to its roster limits, NIL guidelines and revenue sharing with players

On Friday night, the NCAA got news that its hearing in the House vs. NCAA suit had been resolved, with a significant amount of changes heading across college sports as On3 reports.

It detailed the biggest change was revenue sharing with the players, sharing up to $20.5 million, with football most likely getting 75% of the cut, and men’s basketball next at 15%. Women’s basketball will get around 5% and the rest will be split with the other sports.

As for program spending, each major school will have around $14 million this coming season. It will be very interesting to see how this is handled across the nation. There is some backpay that the NCAA will have to make as well, a whopping $2.776 billion over the next 10-years as the report states.

As for Name, Image and Likeness, any deal worth more than $600 has to go through the clearinghouse, and if rejected that school and athlete could face ineligibility or the university a fine. On3 mentioned that “Deloitte officials reportedly shared that 70% of past deals from NIL collectives would have been denied,” so big changes are coming with how the players get compensated.

Not only that On3 says that roster limits will be imposed, with football being allowed 105 members, basketball rosters at 15, soccer having 28, softball at 25 and volleyball at 18. Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman has prepared for this, as surely the rest of the program’s have done the same in South Bend.

It will definitely change the path of college sports, and we will see if this is the right decision.