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Big West Commissioner Dan Butterly also stopped by the Collegiate Sports Connect at the 2024 NACDA Convention interview set for a conversation with Kristen Eargle. Notably from Butterly on the House settlement: “Part of it is shock on how we got put into the overall settlement. [...] There are 27 conferences who didn’t learn anything about this settlement until early May and this would be our taxation as part of that. [...] Every week that we’ve gotten updates the money continues to increase in terms of what each conference and each institution owes. [...] Now you’re looking at not only the costs of it, but the impact of it.” Butterly goes on to say that potentially cutting sport programs “is going to have to be on the docket. No athletic director, no conference, no institution wants to think about cutting sports or scholarships, but these are real dollars and real world scenarios. Cost of a college education isn’t going down, it continues to go up. If you look at a Cal State or University of California school, tuition costs go up 6% per year. Those are costs athletic departments have to fund. [...] Conferences such as the Big West are already on slim margins on their operating budgets.”