FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati says that the private Big 12 school is all in on the maximum amount of revenue — expected to be more than $20 million a year — that will be allowed to be shared with student-athletes under a agreed to earlier this year by the NCAA and the nation's biggest conferences.
“All this will combine to provide a new collegiate athletics model and industry reset that comes with a significant permissive expense projected to be over $20 million annually,” Donati wrote. TCU’s enrollment last fall of 12,785 students was the lowest in the Big 12, which next week becomes a 16-school conference. That is when Pac-12 schools Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah formally become Big 12 members, at the same time Oklahoma and Texas depart for the Southeastern Conference.would allow up to 22% of the average power league school’s annual revenue being directed to athletes. The settlement proposal still needs approval from a federal judge.