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Business Insider
17 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
The NCAA settlement is a big win for football players. For other athletes, the picture is murkier.
DI track and field athlete Sabrina Oostburg isn't celebrating the recent NCAA settlement, which allows colleges to pay athletes directly. The Belmont University student said she was standing next to a volleyball player and two football players when the news came out. One of the football players reacted positively and then turned to the volleyball player to get her take. "It's good for you because you're going to get paid, but some of your female athlete friends might get cut," Oostburg recalled the volleyball player saying. The recent settlement, which ended multiple antitrust cases against the NCAA, sets up a system in which football players will likely get the lion's share of the money. The settlement's back-pay portion, for example, allocates 75% to football, guided by how much revenue the sport brings in. Colleges that opt into the settlement can pay up to $20.5 million to their athletes for the year starting July 1 (with increases in subsequent years). "It's going to be focused on football, basketball," Craig Weiner, a partner and litigator at Blank Rome, told Business Insider. While schools are free to distribute the money to different teams as they wish, there is a clear incentive for them to want to remain competitive in football to generate revenue. That could mean some athletic programs — if we take that 75% figure as guidance — will need to cover $15 million in new expenses to pay football players. Where is the money going to come from? Oostburg said she's worried about cuts to her team and others that don't make money for the college. She fears they could lose roster spots, places where they practice and train, or even snacks. "I think you're going to see cuts potentially in the non-revenue sports," Weiner said. "As far as support, athletic facilities, athletic support. Money that is that is earmarked to help the non-revenue producing sports, because they're going to focus on the money makers." The settlement ruling could create Title IX issues The skew toward football and men's basketball in the $2.8 billion back-pay part of the settlement has already attracted a legal challenge. Dan Ain, an attorney at Reavis, Page, Jump, noted that current and former DI female athletes had filed an appeal. They argued that 90% of the back pay going to former football and men's basketball players was a violation of Title IX, which requires schools to give male and female athletes equitable opportunities. Ain also pointed out that Judge Claudia Wilken, who oversaw the case, said that athletes could sue if they felt there was any infringement on Title IX due to the nature of the revenue share model. "This is new territory for schools," Ain said. "Schools, for the first time, will be deciding how to allocate tens of millions of dollars in revenue share to individual athletes. The expectation right now is that the distribution is going to be grossly unequal between men and women, and that will open schools up to Title IX litigation." Athletes have to run their deals through a clearinghouse Oostburg said she also had concerns about a new clearinghouse that will oversee deals athletes strike on their own with brands, called NIL deals (short for "name, image, and likeness"). Athletes with deals of over $600 will have to report them to the clearinghouse, operated by Deloitte, which will determine the athlete's value. If the deal is higher than their assessed value, it can't go through. Athletes who don't report deals or violate them by taking something of a different value could have their eligibility taken away. For athletes like Oostburg in "non-revenue" sports, NIL deals — often driven in part by their social media footprint — are the biggest money-making opportunity. "That does concern me," Oostburg said. "If I get a deal over $600 and they decide, no, that doesn't make sense for someone like a track athlete like me to get a $1,000 deal."
Daily Mail
18-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Young woman loses both parents after wrong way driver slams into car at 106mph
This is the awful moment a young Wisconsin woman lost both her parents after a driver going the wrong way down a freeway slammed into their car at 106mph. Allissa Horne, 22, of Oostburg, was riding in the car with her parents Jay, 56, and Nicole Horne, 51 who was driving the vehicle on May 26 around 1:00am when tragedy struck. Ace Vue, 34, of Milwaukee, slammed into the vehicle on the I-43 freeway. Dashcam footage taken from inside Vue's vehicle showed him moving at a high speed, with a semi-truck driver flashing his lights at him to warn him he was going the wrong way. 'There is a car going up the wrong way on the northbound road,' a male 911 caller told a dispatcher, according to WISN. 'And he's going really fast,' a female said. 'He is exceeding 80 miles an hour into oncoming traffic,' the man said. At least five people called 911 to report Vue's dangerous driving, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The dispatcher told the couple that there were 'deputies up that way,' but law enforcement did not reach Vue before he struck the Horne family's vehicle. Dashcam footage showed Nicole trying to veer off the side of the road to get around Vue's car, but she was unable to. Jay and Nicole died on the scene, while their daughter was left critically injured and pinned in the backseat, according to The Journal Sentinel. She is still hospitalized. The couple also shared a son, Nathaniel, who was not in the car. Vue was taken to the hospital and released days later without the sheriff's department being notified, The Journal Sentinel said. The extent of his injuries is unknown. He was arrested at his home on June 2. Vue was charged with reckless homicide, reckless injury, and seven counts of endangering the lives of other drivers. His toxicology report is pending and he is being held on a $2million bail, WISN reported. A relative told WISN that the family of four were 'best friends.' 'I mean, truly, you ask anyone, they were never apart,' Cassie Ames said. Family started a GoFundMe for the surviving children. 'Jay and Nicole were known for their kindness and generosity - Nicole especially had a deep love for children and caring for others,' the fundraiser read. 'Their sudden passing has left Nathan and Allissa not only grieving, but also struggling to manage the overwhelming responsibilities that come with such a tragedy.' Allissa, who is still hospitalized, has undergone several surgeries and will face extensive rehabilitation. Some of the fundraiser money will go toward her medical bills, as well as the siblings' basic needs and funeral expenses. Vue faces up to 145 years in prison and up to $100,000 in fines if convicted.
San Francisco Chronicle
08-05-2025
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
'Hands tied': Athletes left in dark as NCAA settlement leaves murky future for nonrevenue sports
The $2.8 billion NCAA settlement awaiting final approval from a federal judge is touted as a solution for thousands of athletes to finally get the money they deserve and provide some clarity to recruiting. For some, it may have come too late. Sophomore distance runner Jake Rimmel says he was one of five walk-ons cut from Virginia Tech's cross country team after Thanksgiving break. Rimmel decided to take a leave of absence and train independently while considering his next move — something that's proven easier said than done. 'Everyone's got their hands tied right now, so there's just not many opportunities for me,' Rimmel told The Associated Press. 'I've just been having to bet on myself and trust the process. It's just been lonely. I've been at home training by myself and living with my family again. Thank God for my family and all, I appreciate them. It's still kind of lonely though, being out of the norm, not being at school and with my friends." Pending approval, the so-called House settlement will allow schools to share revenue with athletes directly for use of their name, image and likeness (NIL). That could secure generational wealth for some but not others, and replacing scholarship caps with roster limitations is expected to leave walk-ons, partial scholarship earners, nonrevenue sport athletes and high school recruits at risk. There are deep concerns about the potential impact on sports that feed the U.S. Olympic teams. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken told attorneys handling the settlement to come back to her with a plan soon to protect athletes currently or recently on rosters at schools across the country, a request seen as a way to soften the blow. That filing came late Wednesday, with attorneys saying schools must offer athletes who lost their spots a chance to play — at their old school or their new school — without counting against the roster limits for as long as they have eligibility. There is no guarantee those athletes will win a spot on the roster and, for now, thousands of athletes like Rimmel have no idea where they might be this fall or are in jeopardy of no longer playing college sports at all. And many athletes balancing school and their sport are unaware of what's at stake and have more questions than answers. Belmont track and field athlete Sabrina Oostburg said everything she knows about the settlement is from personal research. 'My school doesn't do a lot of education around it (the settlement). Every now and then, we'll be told, 'Hey, if you want to sign up to potentially get some money from this House settlement that's happening, you can do that,'' Oostburg said. 'It's almost like the education we're being given is optional to consume, even though it's limited.' Oostburg is used to taking matters into her own hands, securing over 50 NIL deals by herself. She has contacted lawyers and asked for updates on the settlement, but she's not quite reassured. The chaotic nature of college athletics, so obvious to the public, is even worse for the athletes themselves. 'Being a college athlete, it's so hard to stay up to date with what's happening every day because it's so constantly changing,' she said. Smaller, nonrevenue-generating programs don't often have a point person to navigate NIL deals or educate athletes. At Belmont, Oostburg said, NIL-related responsibilities are managed by an already busy compliance office. 'To take time to learn about what's happening is just so time-consuming, especially if you're not in that one percent or one of the football players where they have people dedicated to helping them stay up to date,' she said. Over the next six weeks, athletes will wrap up their spring semesters and many of them have league tournaments or even NCAA championship competition ahead before what many expect will be the final summer before college sports sees some of the most dramatic changes in history. For athletes like Rimmel, those changes are already here. On the bright side, his name was among those on an eight-page list of 'designated student-athletes' released in Wednesday's court filing, meaning he is one of many who will be able to seek a roster spot without counting against a school's roster limit. Some of the others cut from the Virginia Tech program have given up on their dreams of collegiate running altogether. Rimmel hasn't given up completely; he spoke with his former coach recently, who said the Hokies' athletics department is still trying to figure out what's to come.
08-05-2025
- Business
'Hands tied': Athletes left in dark as NCAA settlement leaves murky future for nonrevenue sports
The $2.8 billion NCAA settlement awaiting final approval from a federal judge is touted as a solution for thousands of athletes to finally get the money they deserve and provide some clarity to recruiting. For some, it may have come too late. Sophomore distance runner Jake Rimmel says he was one of five walk-ons cut from Virginia Tech's cross country team after Thanksgiving break. Rimmel decided to take a leave of absence and train independently while considering his next move — something that's proven easier said than done. 'Everyone's got their hands tied right now, so there's just not many opportunities for me,' Rimmel told The Associated Press. 'I've just been having to bet on myself and trust the process. It's just been lonely. I've been at home training by myself and living with my family again. Thank God for my family and all, I appreciate them. It's still kind of lonely though, being out of the norm, not being at school and with my friends." Pending approval, the so-called House settlement will allow schools to share revenue with athletes directly for use of their name, image and likeness (NIL). That could secure generational wealth for some but not others, and replacing scholarship caps with roster limitations is expected to leave walk-ons, partial scholarship earners, nonrevenue sport athletes and high school recruits at risk. There are deep concerns about the potential impact on sports that feed the U.S. Olympic teams. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken told attorneys handling the settlement to come back to her with a plan soon to protect athletes currently or recently on rosters at schools across the country, a request seen as a way to soften the blow. That filing came late Wednesday, with attorneys saying schools must offer athletes who lost their spots a chance to play — at their old school or their new school — without counting against the roster limits for as long as they have eligibility. There is no guarantee those athletes will win a spot on the roster and, for now, thousands of athletes like Rimmel have no idea where they might be this fall or are in jeopardy of no longer playing college sports at all. And many athletes balancing school and their sport are unaware of what's at stake and have more questions than answers. Belmont track and field athlete Sabrina Oostburg said everything she knows about the settlement is from personal research. 'My school doesn't do a lot of education around it (the settlement). Every now and then, we'll be told, 'Hey, if you want to sign up to potentially get some money from this House settlement that's happening, you can do that,'' Oostburg said. 'It's almost like the education we're being given is optional to consume, even though it's limited.' Oostburg is used to taking matters into her own hands, securing over 50 NIL deals by herself. She has contacted lawyers and asked for updates on the settlement, but she's not quite reassured. The chaotic nature of college athletics, so obvious to the public, is even worse for the athletes themselves. 'Being a college athlete, it's so hard to stay up to date with what's happening every day because it's so constantly changing,' she said. Smaller, nonrevenue-generating programs don't often have a point person to navigate NIL deals or educate athletes. At Belmont, Oostburg said, NIL-related responsibilities are managed by an already busy compliance office. 'To take time to learn about what's happening is just so time-consuming, especially if you're not in that one percent or one of the football players where they have people dedicated to helping them stay up to date,' she said. Over the next six weeks, athletes will wrap up their spring semesters and many of them have league tournaments or even NCAA championship competition ahead before what many expect will be the final summer before college sports sees some of the most dramatic changes in history. For athletes like Rimmel, those changes are already here. On the bright side, his name was among those on an eight-page list of 'designated student-athletes' released in Wednesday's court filing, meaning he is one of many who will be able to seek a roster spot without counting against a school's roster limit. Some of the others cut from the Virginia Tech program have given up on their dreams of collegiate running altogether. Rimmel hasn't given up completely; he spoke with his former coach recently, who said the Hokies' athletics department is still trying to figure out what's to come. 'I'm still kind of hoping I might be able to find my way back there next fall," he said.
