A rough estimate for the NCAA settlement is that 75 percent of the $20.5 million universities can allocate to their athletic programs will go to football players, 15 percent to men's basketball, five percent to women's basketball and five to other sports.

A multibillion-dollar settlement paves the way for colleges to pay athletes who competed between 2016 and now. The Friars’ share will be “significant,” PC’s athletic director says.

The landscape of college sports has been altered forever. For the first time in the history of collegiate athletics, student-athletes will soon become eligible to be directly paid by their schools.