Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. I’m Sam Weber, our VP of Marketing here at Extra Points, and I’m excited to welcome you to our second newsletter publication, The Library Card.

What’s in it for you?

We’re writing The Library Card to give you the inside scoop on the most interesting data, deals, and decision-making information within the Extra Points Library, the leading contract directory in college sports.

On that note – we’re excited to share one of the biggest updates to Extra Points Library yet.

Today, we’ve launched a new feature, making Library more useful than ever before. You can now seamlessly sort and compare financial information by school, conference, year, and more. It is the easiest way to compare athletic department revenue and expenses from school to school. 

With 156 FRS reports from 2024 and 177 from 2023, users can view athletic department financial records and benchmark total revenue and expenses, including individual line items like ticket sales and media rights revenue, recruiting expenses, coaching salaries and bonuses, and much more.

This tool will make it easier for a user to benchmark one school against conference or aspirational peers, track down national ticket sale data, and answer other important questions.

We’ll continue to update these charts as we get more FRS reports. If you have a budget that we’re missing, send it to us at [email protected], and we’d be happy to give you discounted Library access.

Check out the new updates today.

What else can you expect from The Library Card?

We’ll keep you up-to-date on the new documents we’ve added to Library. Expect to see a steady drip of itemized athletic department budgets, FRS reports, apparel deals, coach contracts, vendor agreements, and more. This tool exists to help industry professionals and athletics administrators get the best data possible to make the most informed decisions, and we’re constantly on the hunt for new, valuable documents.

Our database now has over 6,000 documents, and it’s growing every week. This newsletter will share the new, interesting documents we add to Library.

Get full access to Extra Points Library today

Our database encompasses more than 6,000 documents, including department budgets, coaching contracts, vendor agreements, and more.

Extra Points Library empowers college sports administrators and industry professionals to make market-informed decisions easier than ever before. With access to over 6,000 itemized athletic department budgets, athletic director and coach contracts, and major vendor agreements, industry professionals can quickly find, sort, and benchmark the most actionable data in college sports.

The Scoop: We (finally) secured a revenue-share agreement.

As you probably already know, the House vs. NCAA settlement permits schools to pay players directly for their NIL rights. Rev-share will likely begin this July, and we’ve been FOIA-ing like crazy to gain access to some of these agreements.

We finally got a hit this week when we received 6 and 12-month agreements from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota. We have requests out to 20+ institutions for these agreements, so Library customers can expect to see more rev-share documents in the coming weeks. (You’re also welcome to pass any along to [email protected])

Schools look to cover themselves on future legal action, transfer risks

There’s a lot to chew on in these agreements; the most interesting inclusions (to me) are those that 1.) limit school risk for future liability and 2.) spell out what occurs when an athlete transfers.

The Limitation of Liability in the University of Washington’s agreement lays out, in no uncertain terms, that the school, NCAA, Conference, etc, will NOT be liable for future damages of any kind.

Similarly, the agreement includes definitive language that the institution has no further obligation to pay the athlete once they enter the transfer portal or transfers. Here’s what caught my eye:

So under this agreement, transferring athletes – or, more likely, the school they transfer to – will be on the hook to pay back the school they transfer from. Will this get pushback from player representation? Time will tell.

These documents are now available to all Library customers. For any athletic administrators, GMs, agents, etc, who might find this valuable, you can get started here or send us a message at [email protected].

Thanks for joining us for the Library Card’s maiden voyage, everybody.

We plan to publish a few times each month. In the meantime, let us know what documents you would find interesting, and we’ll do our best to gain access.