The NCAA made major concessions in that settlement to try to maintain its increasingly fragile ability to govern college athletics and whether and how players are compensated.
Under the settlement, the NCAA and several major sports conferences agreed to pay $2.8 billion in what is essentially 'back pay' for use of athletes' names, images and likenesses since 2016.
Senior District Judge Claudia Wilken of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California expressed qualms last month about whether the terms of the agreement would unfairly limit the compensation available to athletes.
In granting preliminary approval to the agreement Monday, Wilken wrote that the court 'will be likely to approve the settlement as fair, reasonable and adequate' after a 'fairness hearing' to be held next April.
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