REVENUE SHARING

[Drakey]

I just read a Sport Illustrated article wherein they mentioned that every member of the Horizon Conference is opting in to the new revenue sharing plan to pay athletes. I haven't heard much about this with regard to Valley schools. Are Valley schools opting in? It sounds like it is absolutely necessary to stay competitive in the future.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Heads up, but I would remove Sports Illustrated from your websites. It’s a shell of what it used to be - the only similarity now is the branding. They’ve been caught with AI authors and articles and many of their articles nowadays are littered with basic errors. I remember reading one article that didn’t know the names of schools and attributed schools to conferences they were never in, and it turned out the author was a college student at a school in India.

[TylerDurden]

I just read a Sport Illustrated article wherein they mentioned that every member of the Horizon Conference is opting in to the new revenue sharing plan to pay athletes. I haven't heard much about this with regard to Valley schools. Are Valley schools opting in? It sounds like it is absolutely necessary to stay competitive in the future.

I'm not sure the Horizon League schools have much revenue to share with players, though I'm happy to be corrected if one of them actually has some NIL dollars.

Regardless, this gives the university control of payments instead of collectives and some flexibility with how it allocates scholarship dollars versus direct payments, etc. It's a control mechanism because they won' t come close the to $20m-ish caps.

This also means they'll have to abide by roster limits (that won't make much of a difference because they can choose to fund the scholarships or not - they won't).

I wouldn't base any MVC decisions off of what the Horizon League decides.

[ReZyNeZy]

The way I see it, is conferences like the HL where NIL money is almost nonexistent will put a premium on concession prices or upgraded ticket packages. Might even have themed nights where "proceeds go to athletes".

[BCPanther]

UNI is opting in.

Will not share with football. 90-ish% of the $1.4M cap will go to MBB.

[racernation]

Murray is opting in.

[Kyle_Saluki_17]

SIU is opting in. You don’t have to revenue share, but basically means that you are agreeing to play by the new rules. Every MVC school should opt in if they have any intention of competing in this league.

[Drakey]

I just read a Sport Illustrated article wherein they mentioned that every member of the Horizon Conference is opting in to the new revenue sharing plan to pay athletes. I haven't heard much about this with regard to Valley schools. Are Valley schools opting in? It sounds like it is absolutely necessary to stay competitive in the future.

I'm not sure the Horizon League schools have much revenue to share with players, though I'm happy to be corrected if one of them actually has some NIL dollars.

Regardless, this gives the university control of payments instead of collectives and some flexibility with how it allocates scholarship dollars versus direct payments, etc. It's a control mechanism because they won' t come close the to $20m-ish caps.

This also means they'll have to abide by roster limits (that won't make much of a difference because they can choose to fund the scholarships or not - they won't).

I wouldn't base any MVC decisions off of what the Horizon League decides.

I don' think this has anything to do with NIL money does it?

[TylerDurden]

I don' think this has anything to do with NIL money does it?

It does because it allows schools to pay players directly instead of going through a collective.

The other side is agreeing to roster limits and a revenue sharing cap, though only power schools are likely to be close to that.

[BCPanther]

I don' think this has anything to do with NIL money does it?

It does because it allows schools to pay players directly instead of going through a collective.

The other side is agreeing to roster limits and a revenue sharing cap, though only power schools are likely to be close to that.

Your revenue sharing cap is based on a percentage of your revenue. The average Valley school will be somewhere between $1-1.5M. For example, UNI will be just over $1.4M.

Collectives are still going to be very much a thing as well.