In this week's Swampcast, the Sun's Kevin Brockway and Noah Ram discuss Florida football recruiting and the landmark House vs. NCAA Settlement.

Brockway and Ram are both curious as to how the Florida Gators will directly pay their athletes and which athletes from which sports will be directly compensated from a pool of up to $20.5 million. A model prescribed in the preliminary House settlement calls for about 75% to be paid to football players, 15% to men’s basketball, 5% to women's basketball and 5% to other sports.

"It's going to have an interesting impact on Florida athletics, but I don't think it's going to change the larger picture, which is Florida is what runs the school," Ram said. "Basketball will maybe get a little bit of a larger percent than it would have a year ago because of (the national championship), but that 75% for football and 15% for basketball, I could still see it that way for Florida."

Brockway and Ram were then joined by USA Today Florida recruiting reporter Nick Wilson to discuss UF's 2026 class, which has landed five of its seven commitments this month, including four-star running back/wide receiver Justin Williams from Buchholz High in Gainesville.

"Really, really good foundation," Wilson said. "Obviously it's commitment season, so ideally for Florida and more likely than not we will see more roll in before summer is over, but as it stands now a really, really good foundation for the class. I think Justin Williams is going to be a really good commitment just for the fact that Florida has to be able to get commits in state, and to be able to stamp a Gainesville kid this early on, especially that high up, I think that sends a message."

Brockway and Ram wrapped up the podcast discussing Florida baseball and softball transfer portal moves. Florida baseball has added a pair of pitchers in the transfer portal ― Notre Dame righty Ricky Reeth and UCF righty Russell Sandefer.

"They've got to address the pitching," Brockway said. "They need the depth there. It's very apparent the last two seasons, it's why they were 36-30 last year and 39-22 this season."