After weeks of anticipation, a federal judge in California approved a $2.8B dollar antitrust settlement that clears the way for college institutions to directly compensate athletes at their respective schools (Editor’s Note: it also addresses back pay for athletes who played before the NIL floodgates opened in 2021).
What this all means is really anybody’s guess at this point, and trust me when I tell you that you can fall down a rabbit hole trying to make sense of it. Perhaps one of the best explanations I have seen comes from Yahoo Sports insider Ross Dellenger, who created this thread on twitter. I also found this article from CBS, and this article from The Athletic, to be insightful as well.
Click here to read more and thanks for subscribing.
