On June 6, a long-awaited, landmark moment finally arrived for college athletes: For the first time in the history of the NCAA, schools were given the right to directly pay players.

As a result of a lawsuit filed against the NCAA in 2020, a settlement approved by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken allowed schools to share revenue with their athletes, cutting players a piece of an ever-growing pie.

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While the settlement in the case of House v. NCAA was meant to bring some measure of order to the college athletic ecosystem, almost three months after the ruling, confusion still reigns over how (and how much) athletes will be paid.

From bipartisan fights in Congress to competing interests among schools and debates over whether the athletes t

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