Estimates on potential revenue sharing amounts for Mountain West teams | Sports
The revenue-sharing era of college sports is set to begin in a matter of days. The House settlement and its host of new rules, among them being the allowance for universities to directly pay players, takes full effect on July 1. For the power conference schools, teams in the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC, this means sharing all the way up to the designated cap of $20.5 million from their budgets (which range from $100 million to nearly $200 million at the top end) with players. For the rest of the schools, those in the Group of Five — the Mountain West, American, Sun Belt, Conference USA and MAC — reaching that revenue-sharing cap is not viable. The question at this point becomes which programs can reach the highest amount of revenue sharing. While having what is essentially a salary cap could end up having a leveling effect on the Power Five, since every team will theoretically be paying the same amount of money on their rosters, the Group of Five (perhaps soon to be Group of Six as the Pac-12 rebuilds) are in a different camp. There are only two G5 teams that project to come anywhere
