TUSCALOOSA, Ala. —

It's a new world in college sports, as the era of NIL and revenue sharing is in full swing. It's a change that's impacted athletic directors like Alabama's Greg Byrne.

"Well, I talk to attorneys a lot more than I used to, but it's been important that we continue to realize it's not the same college sports that it was 10 years ago, and that we have to evolve with that. We have to change with that, we have to maybe push the envelope on some things that we historically wouldn't," Byrne said.

It's Byrne's hope that with the House settlement approved in June that a path forward becomes clear.

"Hopefully, in this new world, we'll see is the NIL deals that really weren't at market rate; you didn't see professional athletes get deals like these. Hopefully, those will be ones

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