{"id":81533,"date":"2025-07-21T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81533\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:42:10","slug":"someone-is-going-to-get-punished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81533\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Someone is going to get punished\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The revenue-sharing era<\/a> in college sports is less than a month old, and football coaches already have mixed feelings.<\/p>\n

The $2.8 billion antitrust settlement<\/a> that paved the way for schools to pay their athletes beginning July 1 resolved three separate federal antitrust lawsuits alleging the NCAA was limiting the earning power of college athletes.<\/p>\n

Under the House vs. NCAA settlement, schools can pay athletes up to a set cap, starting at $20.5 million per school in the 2025-26 academic year, in addition to offering scholarships, NIL deals and other benefits athletes already receive. That number is expected to increase by roughly 4% each year, reaching an estimated $32.9 million by 2034-35<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said he\u2019s wary of being the first to cross the line.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSomewhere down the road, I don\u2019t know if it is tomorrow, next week, next year, someone is going to get punished for going over the cap,\u201d he said Monday at the Texas High School Coaching Association\u2019s annual convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related:How Texas colleges are handling the House settlement, preparing to pay players directly<\/a><\/p>\n

SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee said he\u2019s still trying to understand how the model will be implemented and monitored.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have 100% confidence that people will circumvent the cap and break rules, because they\u2019ve been doing it for decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"SMUSMU head coach Rhett Lashlee greets the fans during a send-off party for the football team ahead of the ACC Championship, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas. (Shafkat Anowar \/ Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n

Since 2021, athletes have been able to earn money through name, image and likeness deals with third-party companies and boosters. Donor-led collectives funneled millions into unofficial salaries \u2014 mostly for top football and basketball players \u2014 without the schools directly paying athletes. <\/p>\n

The settlement<\/a> created an organization, the College Sports Commission, to enforce the cap and regulate athlete compensation. Any third-party deal worth more than $600 must be sent to a clearinghouse called NIL Go, run by the consulting firm Deloitte, which will seek to regulate the market and prevent schools from circumventing the cap through external deals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how the commission plans to penalize rule breakers. Tech coach Joey McGuire said he believes schools should forfeit scholarships if they exceed the cap.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have faith that people are always gonna try and look for loopholes,\u201d the former Cedar Hill coach said. \u201cThe more we can close those and play on a level field when it comes to revenue sharing, the better it\u2019ll be for the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related:THSCA is pushing for legislation to protect recruits from being manipulated by agents<\/a><\/p>\n

Relying on well-funded NIL collectives allowed schools to spend as much as $40 million on their rosters, according to reports. Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M were among the top 10 spenders in college football, according to an On3 poll<\/a>, with the Longhorns topping the list.<\/p>\n

Under the settlement, schools in power conferences and others that opt in to revenue sharing could be forced into difficult decisions about how to disburse their $20.5 million. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you maximize the cap based on the percentages, you\u2019re somewhere in that 13 to 16 [million dollar] range for football,\u201d Lashlee said. \u201cYou might not be the highest, but you\u2019re in the range. That\u2019s where the strategy comes in, if everybody\u2019s buying in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some schools may adopt NFL-like salary structures, devoting larger shares of the cap to the high-priority quarterback, left tackle and pass rusher positions.<\/p>\n

Mansfield Lake Ridge offensive tackle Felix Ojo, one of McGuire\u2019s pledges at Texas Tech, signed a fully guaranteed three-year, $5.1 million deal, according to Rashad Phillips of Prestige Management. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019ve allotted however many million dollars to that room, how I use that money to one player or 10 players, that\u2019s on me,\u201d McGuire said.<\/p>\n

Staff writer Lia Assimakopoulos contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The revenue-sharing era in college sports is less than a month old, and football coaches…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1369,10857,1318,10858,1317,1315,1316,14971,62,13877,9662,8799,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-81533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-high-schools","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-smu-mustangs","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas-am-aggies","18":"tag-texas-longhorns","19":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114893169948121077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}