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Revenue sharing
I’ve seen a couple of interesting things recently regarding revenue sharing.
1) The American Athletic Conference passed a policy that schools have to share at least $10 million with their athletes (and for scholarships) over the next 3 years. So that’s $3.3 million per year, though I would imagine most of that goes for football.
2) University of Georgia has made public its revenue sharing plan. They are basically giving $13.5 million to football, $2.7 million to men’s basketball, and $900k to women’s basketball.
So that brings me to a question of GW and the A10. I don’t know if anyone here has insight into GW’s revenue sharing plan, but it seems to me that this could be good for us and the league since we don’t have football.
The NCAA rule, as I understand it, is that schools can use up 22% of revenue for revenue sharing. Problem is, I have no idea how much that is for GW.
Reports seem to vary about what our revenues are. A hatchet article from 2022 suggests men’s and women’s basketball brought in about $6.2 million in revenue, but other reports have bb plus baseball bringing in $9 million, and other reports suggest as much $30 million in revenue (though I doubt that is even close).
But if the number is around $9 million, that would mean we’ll have about $2 million for revenue sharing. Not sure what % would go to mbb, but we should have quite a bit more than the AAC programs, and at least a decent amount (well over $1 million) for mbb. That would hopefully be enough to retain Castro, give some cash to our other returnees, and land some decent players in the portal.
I’m very curious if anyone here has and can share more info on what to expect from revenue sharing, but because our league has no football, we should have more money to spend than the non-BCS football leagues (big East excepted) and hopefully be not too far behind even the Georgias of the world. I would also think schools like Dayton and VCU that bring in much more revenue than us and don’t have football would stand to benefit immensely, maybe even having more money for basketball than schools like Georgia.
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Re: Revenue sharing
A lot of food for thought there. I still have trouble with the idea that we have to pay to play. I guess payments have always been there but now it's out in the open.
Do hope Castro returns and that we can keep other key members.
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You neglected to mention the House settlement which will cut both ways as far as the A10 is concerned. On the one hand, each school that opted-in to receive the settlement will have extra revenue which is specifically earmarked for NIL purposes. The downside is that once the settlement money is exhausted, future revenue will be taken from NCAA tournament broadcast revenue. (This aspect might even be starting right away.) There is a private formula that involves schools receiving revenue for making the dance, and then additional revenue based on how far they advance. In the A10 (and really in all conferences), this revenue is then split between the team who qualified (and advances) and the rest of the A10 member schools. The bottom line is that this "pie" will not be as big as it once was since a portion of this will be allocated to NCAA member schools for NIL. In exchange, the schools will bring the function of managing NIL in-house rather than rely exclusively on outside collectives.
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It seems like schools like GW and Mason that don't have football and otherwise wouldn't be spending as much money as they now can with revenue sharing are in a terrific spot because many other schools (maybe even some other A10 places with FCS football) will have to commit money to football. What exactly that looks like in terms of dollar amounts is unclear but I believe it will be substantially more than what the NIL budget was last year. Now it's all about spending that money wisely
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To Free Quebec: What I am hearing is that GW Men's Hoops will have more $$ than most people think and that Coach Caputo feels like he has the $$ to get the players we need. And your reference to Dayton not having football is not accurate. I grew up in Dayton and they have a strong football program in a second level conference.
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AT Hiker wrote:
To Free Quebec: What I am hearing is that GW Men's Hoops will have more $$ than most people think and that Coach Caputo feels like he has the $$ to get the players we need. And your reference to Dayton not having football is not accurate. I grew up in Dayton and they have a strong football program in a second level conference.
You’re right, of course. Forgot they were FCS. Rhode Island in the same boat.
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Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) on X
Stephen Curry is helping to create an eight-figure fund to support the Davidson men’s and women’s basketball teams, the school announced. Curry starred at Davidson from 2006 to 2009. Curry and fellow alum Matt Berman also will serve as assistant general managers for Davidson
Considering Davidson was among the lowest spenders on basketball in the league, that's major news. The Wildcats have certainly upped the ante when it comes to revenue sharing now.
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Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) on X
Stephen Curry is helping to create an eight-figure fund to support the Davidson men’s and women’s basketball teams, the school announced. Curry starred at Davidson from 2006 to 2009. Curry and fellow alum Matt Berman also will serve as assistant general managers for Davidson
Considering Davidson was among the lowest spenders on basketball in the league, that's major news. The Wildcats have certainly upped the ante when it comes to revenue sharing now.
That’s a lot of hype but I’d love to know if this “8 figure fund” means there will be $10 million deposited at once or if they are being creative and looking at it over a 5 or 10 year period (if the latter, basically any a10 school could claim an 8 figure fund).
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To Free Quebec: What I am hearing is that GW Men's Hoops will have more $$ than most people think and that Coach Caputo feels like he has the $$ to get the players we need. And your reference to Dayton not having football is not accurate. I grew up in Dayton and they have a strong football program in a second level conference.
You’re right, of course. Forgot they were FCS. Rhode Island in the same boat.
Rhode Island, Fordham, Richmond, Davidson, Duquesne, and Dayton all have football teams that compete at the FCS level.
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To Free Quebec: What I am hearing is that GW Men's Hoops will have more $$ than most people think and that Coach Caputo feels like he has the $$ to get the players we need. And your reference to Dayton not having football is not accurate. I grew up in Dayton and they have a strong football program in a second level conference.
You’re right, of course. Forgot they were FCS. Rhode Island in the same boat.
Rhode Island, Fordham, Richmond, Davidson, Duquesne, and Dayton all have football teams that compete at the FCS level.
And one could argue umASS has an FCS-quality football program, although those turncoats are attempting to play with the big boys. Good luck with that.