How the big House settlement will affect Ohio State moving forward

College sports are at a crossroads. There is a big House settlement that is going on with college sports right now. We are about to get one step closer to two different divisions within major college football. So how does this affect Ohio State moving forward? Not as much as it’s going to affect smaller schools.

Smaller schools seem to be the ones who are going to pay the biggest price. There is a $2.7 billion settlement package currently proposed. The NCAA Tournament is supposed to help pay for most of it with the revenue that generates, but smaller schools are going to have to pay for a larger portion than they think is fair.

Ohio State won’t be affected much by new settlement

Ohio State will have to pay a large sum for the settlement, but they make enough money to make it work. We don’t know how much they will have to pay yet, but it’s something they can afford. The Big Ten in general should be fine whenever this settlement gets finalized. They just made $880 million in revenue for the 2023 fiscal year.

Details are still being worked out with the settlement. ESPN’s Pete Thamel has done a good job covering the story, so I would suggest reading more about it over there. He gets more into the nitty gritty of it and knows more about how it’s going to work. What I know is that Ohio State is fine with how the settlement is going to get finalized.

Even if the settlement does go through some revisions, the Buckeyes will be fine. College sports as a whole though may not be. I think this is the first step for some major changes across the landscape of college sports. In the next two or three years, how schools acquire players and how they stay on rosters will be unrecognizable.