Thousands of former college athletes will be eligible for payments ranging from a few dollars to more than a million under the $2.78-billion antitrust settlement agreed to by the NCAA and five power conferences, a deal that also paves the way for schools to directly compensate athletes while attempting regulate payments from boosters. The NCAA and college sports leaders continue …
This week, the NCAA, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC voted to allow schools to pay their athletes. “If we go down the road of paying players substantial sums, all will be lost,” former CBS Sports president Neal Pilson testified during the 2014 O’Bannon v. NCAA trial. Many college athletes — not just in football and men’s basketball …
Stetson Bennett was one of the best college football stories of all time. For years, NCAA scholarship limits have been seen as a means of establish parity among schools, with all FBS football programs adhering to the 85 limit, all men’s basketball programs limited to 13 scholarships, baseball to 11.7, and so on. NCAA Division I scholarship limits Sport Men …
