Clemson AD Neff says school will fully fund NCAA settlement and add 150 scholarships in two years
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney called the current state of college football “Wackyland.”
The Tigers’ long-time coach believes what his university announced Tuesday will help bring normalcy back to the game.
Clemson athletic director Graham Neff told athletic backers the school will fully participate in revenue sharing under the NCAA’s upcoming House settlement and will add 150 scholarships across all sports for the 2025-26 academic year.
Swinney has long thought the landscape of the game has been unmanageable with schools with bigger donor bases and better-funded collectives having an advantage over schools like Clemson, which is not quite as well funded.
Clemson is fully funding a revenue-sharing program for its athletes, as put forward in the House settlement, to even out those disparities seen by Swinney.
Neff also said the school will partner Clemson’s collective, the “110 Society,” to its long-time scholarship fundraising arm, “IPTAY,” helping donors earn points for perks for things like better seating or better parking.
“The NIL part’s been a challenge,” Swinney said. “But now with being able to get points and all that, that’s really going to help us between now and July” when revenue sharing is expected to start.
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