2024 T&F Championships

[AppWyo]

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking high school, where it's basically funding just by sport. I hadn't considered that at the college level the funding is based more on scholarships. Thanks!

Theoretically, I wonder if you will see any teams push the 85 scholarship limit or Title IX by offering NIL deals instead of scholarships and just have the "student/athletes" just pay their own tuition out of their NIL earnings. It could also change the face of the baseball scholarship limit.

Already been done. A company in Utah gave all of the BYU walk-ons an NIL deal for the equivalent of the cost to attend. I believe there were 37 of them, so BYU essentially had 122 scholarship football players last year.

BYU is sneaky like that.

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I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking high school, where it's basically funding just by sport. I hadn't considered that at the college level the funding is based more on scholarships. Thanks!

Theoretically, I wonder if you will see any teams push the 85 scholarship limit or Title IX by offering NIL deals instead of scholarships and just have the "student/athletes" just pay their own tuition out of their NIL earnings. It could also change the face of the baseball scholarship limit.

Already been done. A company in Utah gave all of the BYU walk-ons an NIL deal for the equivalent of the cost to attend. I believe there were 37 of them, so BYU essentially had 122 scholarship football players last year.

BYU is sneaky like that.

Yup. Always finding loop holes. Like soaking. If my friend bounces on the bed for me, then it doesn't really count... loop hole.

[MrCraig]

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking high school, where it's basically funding just by sport. I hadn't considered that at the college level the funding is based more on scholarships. Thanks!

Theoretically, I wonder if you will see any teams push the 85 scholarship limit or Title IX by offering NIL deals instead of scholarships and just have the "student/athletes" just pay their own tuition out of their NIL earnings. It could also change the face of the baseball scholarship limit.

Already been done. A company in Utah gave all of the BYU walk-ons an NIL deal for the equivalent of the cost to attend. I believe there were 37 of them, so BYU essentially had 122 scholarship football players last year.

BYU is sneaky like that.

Yup. Always finding loop holes. Like soaking. If my friend bounces on the bed for me, then it doesn't really count... loop hole.

Hahaha!
I remember reading in Sports Illustrated years ago that all students have to complete a period of missionary work. So, they send athletes to different mission fields for a semester or a year or whatever, but also make sure there's an athletic trainer and plenty of equipment and stuff. It allows them to basically add a year to a player's eligibility. That could've been done away with by now though. I read it a long time ago.