Each week, Next TV writers Daniel Frankel and David Bloom stop being polite with one another ... and get real.
DAVID BLOOM: Happy Memorial Weekend, D.F.! Hope you'll be relaxing from the rigors of your roles as editor/savior of Next TV and parent of a love-smitten teenager. Here on the holiday eve, the NCAA raised a gigantic white flag that will remake college athletics. Under settlement terms of the landmark House v. NCAA lawsuit, former Division 1 college athletes will get $2.75 billion in back pay, a modest portion of the billions that college sports generate for everyone else. Going forward, schools can set aside up to $20 million a year to pay their athletes, beyond whatever the school's name/image/likeness organizations are already forking over.
