The NCAA delivered, Baker said, with new rules that guarantee better post-graduate health care and scholarship protections for athletes, and then with the crown jewel of reforms — the $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement that a federal judge approved last week.

NCAA President Charlie Baker <a href=" to hundreds of collegiate athletics administrators at the annual National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics & Affiliates Convention in Orlando on Tuesday.

Last Friday's settlement ruling allows schools to pay student-athletes directly. Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter commented on the ruling.

Longtime Michigan State head basketball coach Tom Izzo says he is skeptical about the effects of the NCAA’s monumental settlement regarding student-athlete compensation.

In their first extensive comments since Judge Claudia Wilken approved the House v. NCAA settlement last week, the commissioners of the five listed defendants -- the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC -- expressed hope that the new revenue-sharing world it created will bring stability to what has been a tremendous period of upheaval within college athletics.

Paul Finebaum joins the Dan Patrick show to weigh in on the new NCAA settlement that opens the door for colleges to pay their athletes directly and how it will impact small schools, women's sports, and beyond.

Nearly all of the $20.5 million that Ohio State is allowed to share with athletes in the next academic year will be through NIL payments.

Down to the availability of all "student-athletes" to enjoy the free dining, college athletics will never be the same