It is not business as usual in college athletics right now. Antitrust claims and suits alleging athletes should be treated as employees have shaken up the formerly settled space.

After the 2021 U.S. Supreme Court decision that the NCAA’s restrictions on paying athletes violated antitrust law, the NCAA revised its rules, allowing athletes to charge for use of their “name, image, and likeness, ”or NIL.

The big news now is about a major settlement that, if approved, will provide athletes backpay for uncompensated use of their NIL and open the door to “revenue sharing” in college athletics. In the era of Caitlin Clark, how will schools decide to share their revenue?

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