"We've been making good progress in our discussions with the NCAA about how to answer the judge's questions and to provide some clarifications where the judge did not believe the language was sufficiently clear as to how these things will work," Jeffrey Kessler said. "And we feel confident that when we provide all this information, the judge will grant preliminary approval."
The NCAA, along with five major conferences, and plaintiffs in three antitrust lawsuits related to athlete compensation agreed to a settlement in May. The deal pays out nearly $3 billion in damages to current and former college athletes who were denied opportunities to cash in on their fame, setting up a groundbreaking revenue-sharing system that will permit schools to direct more than $20 million per year to their athletes.
Wilken's issue with the part of the settlement that would attempt to rein in booster payments to athletes made under the guise of NIL deals - an element of the deal that was a high priority for the conferences - seems to represent the biggest obstacle to getting it approved.
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