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Greg Byrne explains how Alabama's revenue sharing will be divided

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Alabama AD Greg Byrne
Greg Byrne (John David Mercer / USA TODAY Sports)

With the passing of the House v. NCAA settlement earlier this month, collegiate athletics departments are not permitted to directly pay players through revenue sharing. Though each school participating in the model has a set amount — $20.5 million — to dedicate to revenue sharing, it’s up to the school to determine how to divide that money among its athletes.

In a clip released by the Crimson Tide Sports Network on Wednesday, Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne explained what the university’s plan is for dividing revenue sharing in the future.

“The House settlement gives us a number, $20.5 million, we’re gonna get in the weeds here a little bit. Every SEC school program has committed to $2.5 million in new scholarships. That gets taken off the 20.5. So that means we have $18 million to work with in rev share, and we as an institution decide how we will distribute that to our teams,” Byrne said.

“We have taken the approach that it’s based off of revenue generation. We think that’s a solid approach. We think that’s one that makes sense for our program. As you’ve heard me say many times, football is the engine that pulls the train. At the same time too, our two sports that turn a profit are football and men’s basketball.

“So they will have the highest percentage of that rev share and then we’re splitting up the remaining dollars with our sports who are ticketed. We have four sports who are ticketed – softball, baseball, gymnastics and women’s basketball. Those are the six sports that will have some type of rev share.”

Byrne went on to explain how he felt like this was the best course of action for UA, and how he’s heard of other schools that have chosen various different methods when it comes to dividing up revenue sharing.

“I’ve heard all over the yard how schools are doing it, and how many sports,” Byrne said. “I know one we compete against all the time is only doing three sports. I know that some schools are doing a little bit for everything. I’m not sure how much of a difference that will make at the end of the day when you just carve off a small sliver for a sport, but we have a plan. I’ve told our coaches it’s fluid. We’re doing the best we can to make decisions we are with the information that we have right now.

“I do think we’ve put ourselves in a good position, not only for the individual sports but for the department as a whole to make sure we’re staying healthy long term.”

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