Schools can now pay players directly | What this means for OSU, future of college sports

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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A landmark settlement on Thursday between the NCAA and three federal antitrust cases will pave the way for Ohio State and other major conference members to directly pay their players. The settlement will pay "roughly $2.7 billion in damages to past and current athletes over the next 10 years," per ESPN. But the aspect of the settlement that we will all remember is that the parties have agreed to a revenue-sharing system where schools can pay up to $20 million to their players. But how will that $20 million be divided? Will the football players get the vast majority of that money, since they are the ones generating the most revenue? And will it be equally distributed among all players? Will the star players get more? And how exactly would that be determined? Yes, we have a lot of questions about this. Another one being ... what is going to happen to a lot of the non-revenue sports? Are we going to look up 5 or 10 years from now and see far less non-revenue sports across collegiate athletics? Also: Are we headed down a path where the Big Ten and SEC break away from the NCAA? Dave Biddle and Jonah Booker discuss all of that and much more on the Friday 5ish. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The And the Good morning Buck Nutter's welcome to the Buck Nuts morning five here on Friday. May 24th, 2024. I am Dave Biddle. I am joined by Mr. Jonah Booker.
0:37.0	Programming note during our live episode today, I had major internet issues. I kept going in and out freezing. So Jaybook ended
0:45.8	up just taking the show and running with it and did a fantastic job. And of course with about a minute
0:51.0	left in the show, my internet connection came back on.
0:54.8	But today's show is all about what was a landmark day yesterday in college football.
0:59.4	We're seeing a lot of landmark days in college football over the last few years, aren't we?
1:03.0	But now schools, and it's not just college football, schools will now, not immediately,
1:08.0	but probably by 2025, will be able to pay their athletes directly.
1:12.0	How will this money be divided up? be able to pay their athletes directly.
1:12.7	How will this money be divided up?
1:15.1	Will football players get the most of it?
1:17.0	On the football team, is it going to be divided up equally
1:19.4	or will the star players get the most?
1:22.4	We're going to talk about all that on today's show. Well
1:25.4	really Jaybook's going to talk about all of that on today's show. Appreciate you
1:29.8	guys joining me and with that I'm going to turn the show over to Jaybook. Yeah I think
1:34.4	there's going to be a situation where they're going to have to split this
1:37.2	money amongst the men and the women Dave I think it's going to be you, it's not going to be a life-changing significant amount of money because you're talking about 85 football players and then all the other sports.
1:51.0	I'm sure that there's going to be some type of title nine issues to where
1:55.4	you know other sports are going to say hey where is our cut of the pie here
2:01.1	so I'm curious to see like you know how that's actually going to be divvied up there Dave but I truly think that it's great for the players because they've earned it. They just gives them the opportunity to earn some extra money is going to always be the
2:16.4	halves and the half knots when you're talking about the big ten and the SEC but with that
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