"What is unclear is who will get paid and how much. The $2.8 billion in damages is tied to revenue generated almost exclusively..."

"... by major conference football and men’s basketball, whose athletes represent one class of plaintiffs. Another class is women’s basketball players in the major conferences. And the final class is everyone else. Going forward, the settlement means that schools could set aside about $20 million each to pay their athletes as soon as the 2025 football season. Schools will have their own decisions to make on how to distribute payments to athletes. Does Michigan, for example, want to sprinkle money among its lacrosse and cross-country teams, or plow almost all of the money into football and basketball? And will Title IX require the money to be distributed equally among men and women?"

From "Decades in the Making, a New Era Dawns for the N.C.A.A.: Paying Athletes Directly/If approved by a judge, the $2.8 billion settlement of an antitrust lawsuit would allow for the first revenue-sharing plan for college athletes. The question now: How will it work?" (NYT).