The landscape of college sports will officially change forever on July 1 as schools start paying players through revenue sharing. This is a direct result of three lawsuit settlements between athletes who want to be paid and the NCAA.

Administrators at Villanova, Temple, St. Joe's, La Salle, and Drexel expressed optimism about the new system. As an Ivy League school, Penn could not opt in to the House settlement.

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.

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.

Starting July 1, athletic departments will be able to compensate athletes directly from their revenues. Here's how the settlement of House v. NCAA will impact NCAA Division I schools.

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.