Quote Originally Posted by GoMuskies View Post
Who are the people kicking in for this? I'm pretty surprised that Xavier's collective (or whoever is handling this) can put out a call and $5-5.5 million to pay players arrives.
I don’t think that it’s all just collective (the final 2%) money here. My guess that schools are moving forward with the idea that the legal settlement will be approved and that they will be able to pay the players directly from athletic department revenue, along with whatever it is that the collective raises. These totals are based on what a player will make over the course of the agreement, they are not lump payments. In the past the payments have been made on a monthly basis. I’ve no idea exactly when the payments begin, or when they end, either. My guess is that they begin when the players enroll in school and end when they no longer enrolled. But that’s just a guess.