Cambridge, Mass. – The Ivy League will not join the antimonopoly agreement that will allow schools to directly pay their players, a decision that leaves the conference of eight elite academic institutions clinging to the amateur model of university sports even when each even more abandoned by the greatest powers of the NCAA.
The IVY League executive director, Robin Harris, told players and coaches this week that the conference will maintain their academic approach instead of accepting the staff and sponsorship regulations included in the Chamber Agreement that will shape the Last jump from NCAA towards professionalism.
“This decision to 'not choose to participate' means that the Ivy League and its schools … will continue to provide an educational model of interuniversity athletics that focuses on academic primacy and the general experience of the student -atleta,” Harris wrote.
“I firmly believe that the totality of the IVY League model, one that offers the students-attachments an option with world-class academics and a personal growth opportunity while producing a constant national athletic success, is a complete experience that will continue to resonate in This was uncertain and in evolution of university sports. “
The agreement of 2,800 million dollars of the Chamber would resolve the antitrust demands that accuse the NCAA and its five most important sports conferences to conspire to prevent players from receiving their part as university sports went from being a small extracurricular activity to a business of one billion dollars.
The agreement also replaces the limits of sports scholarships with stops on the lists and aims to take control of the new and anarchic world of the name, image and likeness, in which athletes can be paid for their sponsorships. The legal lagoon Nil frequently degenerated in a quid pro quo disguised in which athletes reaped millions, but only third parties.
The schools, which were previously allowed to compensate for athletes only with scholarships and a stipend for the cost of assistance, can now pay them directly. (Ivy League does not grant sports scholarships, although it does grant funds based on academic merit and financial need).
The ACC, the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and PAC-12 accepted the agreement, which must still be approved by a federal judge. The smallest sports conferences, including the IVY League, must decide if they choose to participate.
Harris said the conference “will not change our rules in response to the House Pending Antimonopoolio Agreement.” The decision was first reported by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the Penn school newspaper. The Associated Press won a copy of the email from an athlete from the University of Brown on Friday.
“The Ivy League remains committed to its fundamental principles and long -standing rules that intentionally encourage students in interuniversity athletics as an important aspect of holistic education,” Harris said in a statement sent by email to the AP. “Ivy League institutions will continue to offer an experience that resonates among the students-attachments, and we firmly believe that the League will continue to promote competitively as one of the five main athletics conferences of the entire division I.”
In the email to players and coaches, Harris said that the decision does not affect their position as members of division I or their access to the NCAA championships. (While sports that generate a lot the fifth largest number of medalists at the 2024 Olympic Games. Any NCAA conference).
Harris also wrote that Ivy's athletes can still “benefit from all legitimate NIL opportunities.” But schools will not take control of them.
“We continue to believe in the strong position of our league in the drastically changing panorama of interuniversity sports,” wrote Brown's athletic director, Grace Calhoun, when she sent the email of the Ivy League to school athletes. “And we will continue to sail on our way forward.”
