One Question Mailbag: The House vs. NCAA Settlement

A "One Question Mailbag" post is really just "I started to respond to someone on Twitter and then I realized it was way too long for a social media response so I just decided to write an article on the topic." It can even be a rhetorical question (like this one).

Here's what I'm responding to. Specifically, the response at the bottom:

Links get lost sometimes, and these are the articles that people sometimes come back to, so if that link is ever broken in the future, here's the text of the tweet I'm responding to:

"Yes, pay them what & by whom? As a fan I've been waiting for this day too b/c I expect to receive a bill."

There are very straightforward answers to the first two questions. And then I can get to the tenor of the last sentence.