The Drake Group Report: An Analysis of Objections to the Proposed Settlement of College Athlete NIL Litigation (aka House/Carter v. NCAA and Power Five conferences)

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The Drake Group Report: An Analysis of Objections to the Proposed Settlement of College Athlete NIL Litigation (aka House/Carter v. NCAA and Power Five conferences)

On March 24, 2025, The Drake Group released this major report analyzing the objections to the proposed settlement of major antitrust cases that would profoundly change intercollegiate athletics.  The purpose of the report is to give members of Congress, higher education and college athletics stakeholders, and the general public, greater insight into the nature of Settlement … Read more

The Drake Group Applauds the 2025 “Fair Play for Women Act”

On February 5, 2025, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy (CT-D) and U.S. Representative Alma Adams (NC-12-D) introduced the Fair Play for Women Act in the 119th Congress. Kassandra Ramsey, President of The Drake Group, issued the following statement: “The Drake Group applauds the Senator Murphy/Representative Adams team for stepping up to … Read more

The Drake Group Endorses 2024 GAO Report Detailing Title IX Enforcement Failures

In April 2024, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report, “College Athletics: Education Should Improve Its Title IX Enforcement Efforts.” The GAO found that 93 percent of all intercollegiate athletic programs were not offering athletics opportunities to females proportional to their percentage in the full-time undergraduate student body. The overall athletic participation rate … Read more

The Drake Group Releases Congressional Briefing Paper and Calls for the Establishment of a Presidential Commission to Examine the Conduct of College Athletics

On July 11, 2024, David C. Hughes, Ph.D., President of The Drake Group, announced the release of the organization’s preliminary assessment of the proposed settlement of three major antitrust lawsuits against the NCAA and its five most powerful Division I conferences (Power Five conferences). Under the framework and details that have been announced by the … Read more

Why is the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Failing to Help Colleges and Universities Resolve the Current Name/Image/Likeness Chaos?

On August 1, 2023, The Drake Group sent its fourth request to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights asking that they issue existing Title IX guidance to colleges and universities to address sex discrimination in recruiting, publicity, promotion, and financial aid by name/image/likeness collectives (NIL collectives) they are directly and indirectly supporting.  … Read more

Following Reports of Hazing and Abuse, The Drake Group Calls Upon Congress to Enact the College Athletes Bill of Rights

WESTPORT, CT – July 18, 2023. Prompted by last week’s reports about systemic sexual hazing, harassment, racism, and other abuse in Northwestern University athletics programs, The Drake Group renewed its call for Congressional action on the College Athletes Bill of Rights, sponsored by U.S. Senators Cory Booker (NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (CT). The legislation would … Read more

The Drake Group Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education/Office for Civil Rights — Request for Issuance of Title IX Guidance Addressing Recruiting Practices of NIL Booster Collectives

The Drake Group believes that the current NIL chaos can be relieved by DOE/OCR clearly and precisely warning institutions, their conferences, and national governance organizations of their obligations under existing Title IX requirements, explaining how those requirements apply to these new NIL-related activities, and warning that actions by “NIL booster collectives” will be attributed to the universities when appropriate. The … Read more

The Economics of College Sport

Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College; President-Elect, The Drake Group; author of Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-time College Sports (1999), The Economics of Sport, I & II (2001), Unwinding Madness: What Went Wrong with College Sports and How to Fix It (2017) with Gerry Gurney and Donna Lopiano, and Whither College Sports (2021), explains the economics of … Read more