With the NCAA taking loss after loss in the courts and the movement to pay athletes growing larger by the month, one Big Ten athletic director is expecting that “The Great Split” will befall college athletics in the coming years.
In a recent speech, Maryland athletic director Damon Evans predicted that within five years college athletics would reach a point where they would be sharing revenue with its student-athletes. Evans believes that will likely come alongside a massive restructure of the NCAA that some like Yahoo college football insider Ross Dellenger has referred to as “The Great Split.”
“I do believe five years from now that we will be at a point where we are sharing revenue with student-athletes,” Evans said at a recent event, via Dellenger.
“To think we are not going to be sharing some of those revenues… we are going to be there. It would not surprise me to see some sort of different type of governance structure in place that separates the A5 out from the current structure.”
In the near future, power leagues will operate separately & share revenue with athletes as part of a reshaped NCAA, a Big Ten AD says.
Forced into action by the latest antitrust case, leaders are considering models for The Great Split.
“It’s nuclear.”https://t.co/GbpLU7uNv3
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 21, 2023
There does seem to be a certain level of inevitability in the NCAA’s collapse. They have somehow managed the impossible and gotten high-ranking members of both major political parties united in taking action against them and thwarting every effort to return to their desired status quo.
Whether or not the NCAA survives, it’s likely going to look extremely different in 10 years from what it looked like 10 years ago.