02-13-2025, 03:55 PM
Do all players on a team benefit equally from NIL payments? If not, why should they be shared equally between teams at a school? Either it's distributed equally to everyone or it isn't.
My guess is that men's football and basketball got the majority of the NIL payments compared with other men's sports. One could argue that the other men's sports don't generate revenue the way that football and basketball do. My guess would be that women's basketball would be the third highest NIL revenue generator, but way behind football and men's basketball.
It's a slippery slope.
It's like the WNBA players complaining about pay inequity. However, it appears that the cumulative WNBA player payroll represents a larger percentage of WNBA revenue than NBA payroll to revenue. And the WNBA revenue includes the NBA financial support. Based upon all of this, one could argue that WNBA player payroll is more than equitable for the players.
My guess is that men's football and basketball got the majority of the NIL payments compared with other men's sports. One could argue that the other men's sports don't generate revenue the way that football and basketball do. My guess would be that women's basketball would be the third highest NIL revenue generator, but way behind football and men's basketball.
It's a slippery slope.
It's like the WNBA players complaining about pay inequity. However, it appears that the cumulative WNBA player payroll represents a larger percentage of WNBA revenue than NBA payroll to revenue. And the WNBA revenue includes the NBA financial support. Based upon all of this, one could argue that WNBA player payroll is more than equitable for the players.