The NCAA’s House settlement era has launched, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the history of college athletics.

With colleges allowed to directly pay athletes for NIL beginning July 1, the University of Akron has unveiled its Competitive Excellence Fund.

It’s a new era for college athletics as now schools can pay the athletes more than just their scholarship with the new settlement deal. The cap for the 2025-2026 school year is 20.5 million, but that’s not the only that thing changing at ISU.