Robert Morris Reveals Decision Regarding The House Settlement

There has been a ton of talks revolving the House settlement and college athletic programs over the past couple of months.

Essentially, the House settlement allows a program or university to directly revenue-share with its student-athletes. This means that NIL (Name, Image and Likeliness) deals are able to be negotiated directly between the university and the athlete.

While that seems like a no-brainer for universities that cares about and supports their athletic departments, it comes with a couple of stipulations. If a program opts in, it will no longer face a scholarship limit, but rather, they will now face roster limits unless a conference sets its own cap number.

For example, the Big Sky and Patriot conferences kept their football cap at 63 scholarships, but for teams that opted in, they can now spread those 63 scholarships over 105 players instead of the normal 85.

On the other side of things, conferences such as the SWAC and the OVC-Big South did not set scholarship caps, so football programs in those conference can go above 63 scholarships if they can afford to do so.

Robert Morris, along with many of its fellow NEC members, revealed whether they opted into the House settlement or not on Tuesday.

The leaders at Robert Morris decided to opt into the settlement and joined other NEC football programs such as Duquesne and Long Island to do so, according to Sam Herder of Hero Sports.

RMU, LIU, Duquesne are the NEC teams opting in. #NECFB https://t.co/Lc1VSXisGu

— NECBlitz (@NecBlitz) July 15, 2025

Central Connecticut State, Mercyhurst, Saint Francis, Stonehill and Wagner were the NEC members to opt out of the settlement.

The news allows Robert Morris to start negotiating NIL deals and more starting as early as this upcoming academic year which is approaching quickly as the football team kicks off its season in less than 50 days when they travel down to Morgantown to take on West Virginia on Aug. 30, 2025.