A new subdivision could be coming to college athletics.
On Tuesday, NCAA president Charlie Baker proposed the creation of a new subdivision within Division I that would allow the highest-resource schools the ability to compensate athletes from trust funds and NIL payments.
Baker’s proposal, which Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger and The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach obtained, includes several recommendations for NCAA Division I members to consider:
- The formation of a new subdivision made up of institutions with the highest resources that can directly compensate athletes through an “enhanced educational trust fund,” which requires the schools that opt into it an investment of at least $30,000 per year per athlete for at least half of the school’s eligible athletes.