BATON ROUGE — How does LSU football 's "front office" determine how to compensate the players on the team and what goes into it?

When the House settlement went into effect July 1, the gateway for college athletic departments to be able to pay their student-athletes from their revenue sharing dollars, a $20.5 million "salary cap" baseline was established as guidance for programs. LSU's football team gets $13.5 million of that the full amount.

But as LSU football General Manager Austin Thomas told reporters Thursday afternoon, numbers aren't concrete and there's room for creative ways to competitively compensate specific players at specific positions. PROJECTING WHAT LSU FOOTBALL PAYS ITS PLAYERS

"The roster matrix that we've worked with the NFL on that allows us to at least have

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