The NCAA’s landmark settlement in the House, Hubbard and Carter antitrust cases is on hold and in danger of not moving forward.
In a two-hour virtual hearing on Thursday, a judge ordered the parties to “go back to the drawing board” regarding language in the settlement that limits third-party pay to athletes, most notably from boosters and booster-led collectives.
U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken, of the Northern District of California, questioned a portion of the settlement that specifically prohibits school boosters from compensating athletes through endorsement deals — a clause in the document that, the judge believes, would be difficult to enforce and may reduce current payments that athletes are receiving.