§ 131.006.Damages

A damages provision naming two heads without limiting the field.

Damages to a regional association or institution may include lost television revenues and lost ticket sales of regular season and post-season athletic events.

"May include" is permissive, not exhaustive. The section confirms two categories are recoverable rather than confining recovery to them.

Naming them matters because both are consequential and speculative — the kind of loss a defendant would otherwise argue is too remote or too uncertain to recover.

The section forecloses that argument as to these two heads.

They are also where the money is. NCAA sanctions characteristically include post-season bans and television restrictions, and for a major program those are the largest revenue lines. The 1987 death penalty at SMU cancelled a season outright.

Post-season revenue is the larger and more speculative of the two. Recovering it requires establishing what the program would have earned in a post-season it was barred from — which depends on how far it would have advanced.

The distribution provision follows for a conference recovery, requiring it to be passed to member institutions in the usual way.

Note what the section does not provide. There is no exemplary damages provision and no statutory multiplier, so the general damages chapter governs any claim for exemplary damages on its own terms.