Think about this a minute. Schools will be able to "share" up to $22 million with their student athletes. Initially my reaction is it's going to be extraordinarily hard for the Big East conference to compete with that. But, the vast majority of that $22 million will be going toward the 105 football scholarship players. Men's basketball will get the next biggest piece of the pie, but it will be dramatically reduced. So, the non-football football big east schools don't have to find $22 million they only need to find whatever the competitive amount is for basketball, and perhaps a bit more.
There is an article that kind of makes this point in the athletic.
(For what it's worth, UConn is still on the hook for the full 22 million if we decide that we want to continue to compete playing football.)
There is an article that kind of makes this point in the athletic.
(For what it's worth, UConn is still on the hook for the full 22 million if we decide that we want to continue to compete playing football.)