Yesterday, an ongoing lawsuit between the NCAA and the House, came to an end, with the biggest takeaway being that schools within the NCAA can now pay players directly from the college that they attend. This includes a fund of 20.5 million dollars that each school will be able to use to allocate to whichever athletes that they choose to. So what does the ruling mean for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets?
This now means that the team will not have to rely on collectives to try and persuade players to come to the Yellow Jackets by offering a vast amount of money. Instead, the athletes will be payed directly from the schools, and the NCAA would have to approve any NIL deal that would be more than 600 dollars.
There is still a lot to compact in the agreement, but from what we know now, the Yellow Jackets could be in great shape with the ruling, as it would give the school 20.5 million dollars to spend across the athletes of their choosing that are at the school. This means that teams that did not have the booster power of just paying for any player that the school wanted. This brings more power to those schools, and Georgia Tech was absolutely one of them.
The Yellow Jackets will now have the same spending money that teams that benefited from third party donations to pay players will: the same 20.5 million dollars across the board. This will wind up being a pivotal piece of legislation for college sports, and one of the schools that it helps will be the Yellow Jackets.