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Michigan Getting a Women's Team?

Hockeybuckeye said:
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.
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The Ilitch family is worth $4B. That's "billion"with a B. Like, $4,000,000,000.00.
 
Hockeybuckeye said:
With ... no settlement yet of compensation to student athletes and now a lawsuit against the proposed settlement ...
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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.
 
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.
 
robertearle said:
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.
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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.
 
Hockeybuckeye said:
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.
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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.
 
The WHCH should remain intact, as is, with the possibility of OSU leaving and joining Michigan, Penn St, and maybe MSU. Bring ND back to the WCHA to fill Ohio's slot. The WCHA is perfect as the most potent powerhouse in Women's hockey, and we fans can get to every game without getting on an airplane. That's worth a ton! We lead women's attendance by far: WI, 3878/game, MN, 2253/game, UMD 1140/game. It would be foolish to break this up to join the faceless mess the BIG10 has become!
 
drewkal said:
The WHCH should remain intact, as is, with the possibility of OSU leaving and joining Michigan, Penn St, and maybe MSU. Bring ND back to the WCHA to fill Ohio's slot. The WCHA is perfect as the most potent powerhouse in Women's hockey, and we fans can get to every game without getting on an airplane. That's worth a ton! We lead women's attendance by far: WI, 3878/game, MN, 2253/game, UMD 1140/game. It would be foolish to break this up to join the faceless mess the BIG10 has become!
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how in the heck does Wisconsin manage to get 3878 in LaBahn when the capacity is 2273? someone needs to check those figures...

my guess is they added in the game at Wrigley or something.
 
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