NCAA President Charlie Baker <a href=" to hundreds of collegiate athletics administrators at the annual National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics & Affiliates Convention in Orlando on Tuesday.

In a landmark House settlement, schools will be allowed to pay athletes directly for the first time. After over 20 years of litigation, lawsuits and legal red tape, athletes will get compensation directly from the people they play for.

In their first extensive comments since Judge Claudia Wilken approved the House v. NCAA settlement last week, the commissioners of the five listed defendants -- the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC -- expressed hope that the new revenue-sharing world it created will bring stability to what has been a tremendous period of upheaval within college athletics.

The Boilermakers' coach used a comparison to professional sports when explaining the difference between revenue-sharing and name, image and likeness.

The NCAA delivered, Baker said, with new rules that guarantee better post-graduate health care and scholarship protections for athletes, and then with the crown jewel of reforms — the $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement that a federal judge approved last week.

The Energy and Commerce, Judiciary and Education and Workforce committees plan to introduce a set of bills in pursuit of the NCAA's goals.

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