A very interesting look at the revenue and expense profiles of D1 schools:
https://www.knightcommission.org/wp-...ncesGraphs.pdf
P5 are largely in FBS Q1/Q2.
G5, along with some lower rung P5 are in Q3/Q4.
Tons of fascinating conclusions from this, among them:
- FCS only gets 5% of revenues from the category of "NCAA/Conference Distributions, Media Rights, and Post-Season Football". In the case of a school like NDSU it would be even lower once you remove our independent Media deal from that. Think we're talking about maybe $1m annually or less from NCAA?
- P5 already get the lions share of "NCAA/Conference Distributions, Media Rights, and Post-Season Football" in NCAA.
- Budgets at G5 FBS and FCS are largely supported by Government/School and Tuition/Student Fee support. This is why I have felt it doesn't make sense to pay athletes at that level. You are asking taxpayers and other students to spend more to pay the athletes. Their scholarships/free education are already being subsidized. There is no profit.
- Even the P5 aren't sending large profits back to the schools, it is going to Athletic Department coaches and staff. If the student athletes are paid more, it will mean cuts to Coaching and Staff in P5. This is why they are pushing back and want to saddle G5/FCS with more of these costs.
There is a real risk here that the NCAA/P5 shifts the Alston settlement costs onto G5/FCS and then P5 splits with their money. That would likely bankrupt NCAA, and be devastating to G5/FCS schools, whose athletics are already heavily subsidized by taxes and students.