Colleges are about to pay the players. In addition, the best season ever by a NCAA male basketball league?

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Whole New World: The large post-amateurism era of university sports

Two things that happened on August 3, 1852, in New Hampshire:

1. The first gain event of Intercollegiate Sports. That day, a local railway company sponsored A rowing match between Harvard and Yale.
2. Scandal of the first Amateurism of Intercollegiate Sports. Also that day, the Harvard boat who led the student-athlete was not … not a student.

Since literally on the first day of 1852, university sports were a business that was twisted around amateurism. But it would take us about a century For all the powers of university sports, to agree on universities that compensate for work with simple scholarships. And roughly another half century for the NCAA to agree that athletes can do anything of money, provided that it does not come from the revenue batteries they generate for schools.

And now look at us, almost 173 years after that day on the lake. University sports are finally about to go somehow legitimate.

That house v. NCAA who has been in news titles to forever? It is ending. Yesterday, the United States district judge Claudia Wilken held an audition on a proposed agreement and her final approval has probably arrived. From our in -depth explanatory:

“If approved, Schools will be authorized to pay athletes directly through approximately $ 20.5 million in sharing revenue during the Athletic year 2025-26.

“In addition, almost $ 2.8 billion will be put aside as damage relegated to athletes dating back to 2016 who have not had the opportunity to be compensated for their name, image and similarity.”

If a version of that agreement occurs, waiting for Wilken Few remaining questions During a follow-up next week, The amateur will no longer be the business model of the I. (Non -school programs in division III and elsewhere: proceed normally.) This would be a truly new era. The portal and the Nil felt revolutionary, but have just expanded and codified the things that had always been happening. Schools who pay players effective money? Would be new.

Potenza programs were already made as if this agreement had happened. The schools of the century, for example, are it should distribute their budget of $ 20.5 million Adapting the retrofinidal formula of the settlement: “75 percent to football players, 15 percent for men’s basketball, 5 percent for women’s basketball and 5 percent for others. “(The payments of the players in those first three would be on average in the low six digits or five highs, together with scholarships and zero.)

“The NCAA and its members are finally recognizing that theirs is a commercial enterprise of many billion dollars, not a after -school activity,” wrote Stewart Mandel After visiting the Wilken courtroom again. “Revenue from their enormous television contracts will finally be accessible to the athletes who generate it.”

Furthermore, in the event that the judge’s name looks familiar: Yep, Wilken managed the case and O’Bannon of 2014 which, among other things, forced the football match of the EA Sports college a go away until things could do legally. It worked well.

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Quick shots

🌀 with the portal reopening next week, Who are the teams to look at? Stanford has just changed the coaches, while Texas Tech could continue to load.

❓ After the tulane suspended to taste TJ Finley After his arrest on charges of possessing a stolen vehicle, his lawyers he said he had been the victim of a scam.

💰 Even if someone who has sold over 25 million albums Buy the rights of denomination to your stadium, Zero remains a challenge.

⏰ New Fake draft by Nick Baumgardner. Shedeur Sanders falls.

🏀 ex NCAA president Cedric Dempsey He died on Saturday at 92 years old. He supervised the boom in the organization’s TV money from the organization.

🏈 Brock Huard He is moving away from calling the CFB games for Fox so he can Coach in close contact In his son’s high school team.

🌎 In the year one of the Pac-2The sports calendar, the state of Oregon and the state of Washington they had a difficult time On various fields and courts.

🏈 From the end of last week: the NCAA is investigating State of Michigan on potential violations of the recruitment During the mandate of the former coach Mel Tucker.

This is April: Basketball SEC fever

The best season ever had from any male university basketball league: probably the race of the century that ended with last night with Florida beat Houston for the title.

“Nine years after hitting the rock fund with three NCAA offers”, Explains Joe Rexrode“The century has collected a concerted effort to give priority to sport.”

Joe also notes:

• “The century got 14 of its 16 teams in the NCAA tournament, a record – which swept away the 11 of the Big East in 2011. This is 87.5 percent of its teams, also a record.
• “Seven teams in the Sweet 16 were a record. Four teams in the Eight elite linked the record.
• “The sec went 23-13 in the tournament and on 23 he was a guidelhed-on-a disc.”

As someone who recalls the hashtag #secbasketballfever #secbasketball in 2010, which would seem every time pre-Bruce Pearl Auburn was unfortunately foaming around or when a team like Ole Miss from 2013 has remained without a ranking even while winning the sec tournament, this is still getting used to it.

However, a program kept the conference even when it was more feverish. Seth Emerson notes These are the leaders of the championship in male basketball in the last 20 seasons:

• Uconn: four
• Florida: three
• Kansas, Duke, Villanova, Carolina del Nord: two

No coastal of women on the side of women, where Geno Auriemma won the twelfth title of Uconn (it doesn’t matter How many times a year tries to retire), thanks largely to Paige Bueckers, who was already a legend anyway. Quite simple, relatively.