Joining me right now is Jesse Docherty from the Washington Post.

It's been a while since we've had Jesse on the show.

He used to cover the Nats, and now he is writing about things like the state of college sports

as it relates to getting outright paid to play with an associated salary cap and, you know, what's happening

with NIL, etc. Jesse wrote over the weekend, he just wrote again today and he joins me right now.

So look, I know that this is an ever-changing, very dynamic situation, but I just want you to start, Jesse, with the basics.

You know, we've had this Wild Wild West era of NIL for the last few years.

It's led to, you know, something akin to annual unrestricted free agency for college athletes.

What happened over the weekend with that district judge approving, you know, a major

change to college athletics?

Where are we right now as we head into, you know, a fall of college football and then

another, you know, big college basketball season.

Yeah, I appreciate the way you introduce my coverage area, too, because when people ask me what

I cover, I usually just say, it confusing you in college sports. I'm probably writing about it.

So that's kind of my official coverage area. So last Friday, a judge in Northern California approved

what sort of quirkly known as the House settlement for college sports. And what that's going

to do is it's a consolidation of three major, major cases that basically challenged

NCA restrictions on athletes getting paid or athlete compensation.

So in the backward side, it's going to pay athletes out and their lawyers $2.8 billion.

I mean, it's a big class of athletes.

So some will make big checks.

A lot of people will make like $2, right?

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