“The amount owed to each athlete would be the half of the sport’s total revenue minus the team’s total student grant-in-aid package divided by the number of players.”
Nice try, California, but Title IX insists excess funds from male sports’ revenue be spent on female sports. College sports teams receive name recognition which is valuable for fundraising, but sports-team spending already exceeds revenue in nearly every case, except a few rare instances when net revenue may get carried over for a few years.
It sounds like this will be a “make lawyers rich” bill while all the parties sue in each other in a circular firing squad.
Maybe this rule will apply to women's sports too. The math would sure be fun: (Large negative number) - (All their scholarships) / # of players = Total bill each player owes for the privilege of playing