Lexi Trumble was quoted in Forbes about the Title IX implications regarding a settlement in a case between the NCAA and the Power Five conferences. The parties agreed to $2.8 billion in damages to former college athletes as well as a revenue-sharing model that allows schools to share 22% of the average Power 5 school's revenues.

"I can’t conceive of a world in which the landmark House settlement doesn’t implicate Title IX," Lexi said, referring to the case. 

Several Title IX programs are likely implicated, including the provision of publicity resources and the disbursement of athletic financial assistance, Lexi told the publication. 

"Depending on how these payments for years of back-damages and prospective revenue-sharing agreements are categorized and administered, athletics administrators will have to balance market-driven financial forces with federal gender equity mandates," Lexi said. "Whether payments to players are required to be proportionally allocated, as in the case of athletic scholarships, or proportionally available, which is the metric used for other forms of financial assistance like summer school aid, Title IX’s broad jurisdictional very likely governs the on-campus transactions contemplated by the settlement."

Revenue sharing would likely fall under "financial assistance," Lexi told the publication.

"The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has explained in guidance documents that, ‘Athletic financial assistance includes any financial assistance expenditures through the institution's athletics program and any other aid that is connected to a student's athletic participation.’ If these House payments are routed through a school’s athletics department — if they bring the compensation on-campus — the school’s involvement in those transactions, in my opinion, likely triggers Title IX," Lexi said. 

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