Last June, a month after the landmark House settlement was agreed to, NCAA president Charlie Baker told a group of athletes and administrators assembled in Atlanta that he'd like to see guidance on a national standard for how Title IX fits into revenue sharing.

The U.S. Department of Education warned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools that payments to athletes for the use of their names, images, and likenesses (NIL) implicate the gender equal opportunity requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments,

There are persuasive arguments that Title IX ought to apply to distributions from the NCAA's pending settlement to resolve the House, Carter and Hubbard antitrust litigations. But just because a Department of Education says Title IX applies,