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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 5236270, member: 1329"] It is not finalized, so nobody knows 100% how it will work. There is a meeting next month with the judge to try and get it over the goal line. Based on what they have so far, they decide which athletes get back pay based on the statute of limitations. It's like a decade or something pre-NIL era. The amount is based on the sport, split based on a formula they arbitrarily devised based on some media rights value (75 football, 15 mbb, 5 wbb, 5 everyone else). It's like a 2.7 billion pot that was agreed upon already. The money is coming from the NCAA and the conferences. The power conferences are paying more, but the Big East is pissed because they have to pay more disproportionately to what their athletes "earned" in hypothetical NIL relative to the power conferences who had football players (see the 75% football number above). Going forward, each school can decide how much to spend on each sport. Duke could spend $20 million on basketball, for example. It does seem most schools are claiming they will split the revenue sharing in a similar manner to the formula devised for the former athletes, in part to try to prevent future lawsuits. [/QUOTE]