Memphis AD Ed Scott to his Board of Trustees on the pending House settlement: “The cap is gonna be between $21 (million) to $22 million (per school year). I can tell you right now: You’ve seen comments from Ohio State; they plan to share the full amount. Now Ohio State has over 32 sports and over 1,000 athletes, and they’re already making difficult decisions about where to cut back in order to invest in football, men’s basketball and some of their other sports. So you’re gonna see two things. You’re gonna see folks make difficult decisions about where they want to prioritize the revenue that they have in order to (determine) where to share it. [...] If Alabama and Auburn are both sharing $22 million with their student-athletes, what separates those two financially for being able to procure talent? … What’s going to separate that is gonna be the collectives.” More context: “I look at it similar to poker: You have to have enough to get in the game, but the person who starts at the table with the largest stack doesn’t always win the game. [...] So I think the real question for us … is gonna be, ‘What is the right size and scope for the University of Memphis, given our sport portfolio and our goals to get into a Power 4 conference?’ So that’s the approach that I’m taking with our coaches.