Michigan Getting a Women's Team?

[Hockeybuckeye]

Very little.

I've never known the extremely wealthy who sit on the boards of any university who don't wield tremendous influence either openly or behind the scenes. Les Wexner was practically the uncrowned king of Ohio State. Thankfully he's been conspicuously absent since his buddy Epstein was exposed.

[Hockeybuckeye]

Here's a new article giving updated insight on Michigan getting women's hockey.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/580...s-hockey-ncaa/

[spwood]

Here's a new article giving updated insight on Michigan getting women's hockey.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/580...s-hockey-ncaa/

It's behind a paywall. Anything new?

[LongGame]

It's behind a paywall. Anything new?

No, it is mostly a re-hashing. And, it ends on a rather sour note describing the difficult economic environment in the NIL era.

[Hockeybuckeye]

No, it is mostly a re-hashing. And, it ends on a rather sour note describing the difficult economic environment in the NIL era.

It's no doubt the same scenario keeping from having anything moving forward that's stalling Ohio State's women's team getting their promised new arena. With a number of lawsuits pending against the NCAA and no settlement yet of compensation to student athletes and now a lawsuit against the proposed settlement it's a slow motion train wreck. Until it's all said and done and universities have a firm handle on how it will affect their athletic departments financially you can't expect any major financial commitments towards anything new.

[LongGame]

It's no doubt the same scenario keeping from having anything moving forward that's stalling Ohio State's women's team getting their promised new arena. With a number of lawsuits pending against the NCAA and no settlement yet of compensation to student athletes and now a lawsuit against the proposed settlement it's a slow motion train wreck. Until it's all said and done and universities have a firm handle on how it will affect their athletic departments financially you can't expect any major financial commitments towards anything new.

The Ilitch family is worth $4B. That's "billion"with a B. Like, $4,000,000,000.00.

[robertearle]

With ... no settlement yet of compensation to student athletes and now a lawsuit against the proposed settlement ...

The judge in the House v NCAA case, who first rejected the language of the proposed settlement, gave preliminary approval of the revised language a couple weeks ago, on Oct 7th.

[Cornholio]

This is certainly a pessimistic viewpoint but I am afraid more likely than not to happen. With NIL and the perception that the 'revenue generating athletes, meaning football and men's basketball (and very rarely women's basketball and men's hockey at the right institution), the push will be to use the revenue generated by the athletic department to compensate those athletes. This will have a very negative impact on nearly all other athletic programs, including women's ice hockey. I am afraid we will see schools cut significantly their non-revenue programs to save the money that is now going to pay the revenue programs. Unless all the other non P4 schools adopt the ivy model or something similar, or unless a school has a benefactor that really likes a non-revenue sport, we are more likely than not to see a reduction of programs not an increase. I hope to be proven wrong but for example just look at what athletics say an Alabama offers over say a Brown. Alabama has just barely enough non-football and basketball programs to meet the NCAA D1 requirement it appears. With all the money their football program brings in they could in theory support a bunch more varsity athletic programs. But nope - pay the football coach an insane amount of money and now will be paying their players an insane amount. No money left for anything else. I guess that is capitalism in this new age of "pro" college sports.

[Hockeybuckeye]

The judge in the House v NCAA case, who first rejected the language of the proposed settlement, gave preliminary approval of the revised language a couple weeks ago, on Oct 7th.

But now there's a lawsuit against the settlement filed by South Dakota's AG so technically the settlement isn't settled pending the further legal action.

[robertearle]

But now there's a lawsuit against the settlement filed by South Dakota's AG so technically the settlement isn't settled pending the further legal action.

A bit oddly, the South Dakota AG filed his suit in SD state court, while House v NCAA is being heard in Federal court, Northern District of California. But while he doesn't allege a Title IX violation directly, he alleges a breach of contract by the NCAA, citing language of "gender equity" in the NCAA Constitution that "mirrors Title IX".

So I'm not sure how much luck he'll have keeping his suit in SD state court, or in getting a Federal judge in CA to wait for the SD courts to act.