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Harrison also worries about the impact on athletes’ mental health, a growing concern in college athletics. A 2023 student-athlete health and wellness study conducted by the NCAA found that 67% ...
A new system for compensating college athletes would be needed to avoid similar challenges in the future; for example, anything that looks like a cap on compensation by, say, the four major ...
An estimated $1.67 billion was spent in 2024 on student-athletes, according to a report from Opendorse, an NIL tech company. Nearly all of that was for men's sports, including $1.1 billion spent ...
“There’s no one to put the brakes on them,” says Joel Maxcy, a Drexel University economist who studies college sports. “There’s no one to say, ‘No, this is not a sound investment.’” A Hail Mary. Georgia State, a commuter college located in a largely vacant stretch of downtown Atlanta, had long resisted a move into big-time ...
The money is used to fund NCAA sports and provide scholarships for college athletes. $46.7M Academic Enhancement Fund; Distributed to Division I schools to assist with academic programs and services. $42.3M Division II Allocation; Funds championships, grants, and other initiatives for Division II college athletes. $39.6M Membership Support Services
We also urge universities to post the reports they must make to the NCAA in an easy-to-find location on their websites. Very few do so. This seems to us a necessary first step toward better communicating with students and parents about the true cost of supporting intercollegiate sports. —Ben Hallman and Shane Shifflett. Methodology
College athletes are able to take advantage of free room and board, the best dorm rooms on campus, free books and classes, and first choice of classes they want. [60] A college athlete can receive up to $120,000 in total scholarships; they already are being paid for their participation.
The latest movement in the college athlete compensation space focuses on payment for name, image, and likeness, a practice first adopted by the state of California in 2019. [1] In September 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 206, which generally allowed student-athletes in California to accept compensation for the use of their name ...