As conferences they agree to it and expect all schools in their ranks to follow those guidelines and it will be a level playing field for all genders/sports meeting Title IX criteria. For the most part that is a nice little bow to tie them all together and easy to do. (I do know of 1 exception - Missouri still has a wrestling team even though the SEC schools do not - so they compete in the MAC I believe.)

Some conferences like the MWC I believe have said they will not require their member schools to do this but will allow each to decide on their own.

I believe two of the lower ones out of CUSA/MAC/SunBelt may have come out and said they will not have (allow) their member schools to pay this out...

Now extending that to BYU who is not in a conference for football. But is in the WCC for many sports such as baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, women's rowing, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's tennis and women's volleyball (and new this last year Softball - before that it was 1 year in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference and the WAC before that).

They are also in the MPSF for men's volleyball, men's and women's indoor track and field and men's and women's swimming.

What if the WCC says they will not allow their member schools to pay the FCOA, etc?

What if the MPSF says the same thing (they may be more likely to leave it up to member schools as they have several PAC schools that participate in various sports)?

IF one of those entities says no for their conference and we are not allowed to pay out for those sports does BYU then get in a problem situation with Title IX if they want to still pay out for football?

THIS is the question/concern that has not been satisfactorily answered yet....