How will paying players continue to work?

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College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey discuss the ways that players will receive compensation moving forward across football. Hear the full conversation on the 'College Football Enquirer' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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For those who are coming into this thing, and saying, OK, the schools can pay the players now.
How exactly does that work?
You know, now there are three sort of buckets, for athletes, uh, you know, as far as compensation, one is the same as it has always been, right?
It's scholarship and benefits and all that stuff.
And I think the second bucket is the rev share piece directly from the schools, which each school getting as much as, uh, well, 20.5% is sort of the salary cap for, for each school.
They can spend up to that, and the rev share and then the third bucket is the one that has caused so much of an issue, as we know.
And that is the NIL bucket, which still does exist.
Third party endorsement and commercial deals for athletes.
So there's kind of these three buckets that an athlete gets, and a lot of the rev share deals, uh, some of them at least that I've seen from schools, break down the buckets, right?
Um.
They break down how much scholarship um and money that an athlete will get.
They might, they break down how much rev share money an athlete will get.
And then they even mention.
Uh, potentially an NIL figure, uh, with contingencies that that NIL figure, that bucket may have to get approved obviously by the clearinghouse, which is a whole, right, another topic that we can dive into that's been very, uh, certainly at the front of the news over the last few weeks as, you know, college sports is unlike sort of any other.
Entity and that it involves um big donors, school donors, historically, um paying players.
And I think the House settlement in the rev share era, one of the things college administrators wanted to do was stop that or limit that as they have been trying for, it seems like 100 years.
Uh, and we're starting to see in the last few weeks, we're starting to see challenges already against the clearinghouse.
Um, in, uh, in the denial of some of these collective booster collective deals that, that is going to be very difficult to do.
Um, and so that's kind of where we are right now, and I would imagine that we'll have more challenges over booster pay in the clearinghouse denials in the next few weeks, uh, and months.
This will be a continuing thing.
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