In what is perhaps far more important than the national championship game today, the final hearings of the House Case Settlement are taking place today.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1...gal-settlement

This is an objectively bad settlement. The NCAA has said that once this is settled they can set up guardrails from future lawsuits. That just doesn't make any sense at all. As this article points out, the results of this settlement will be far MORE lawsuits, which will result in the NCAA losing even more power and more separation between the P4 conferences and everyone else.

Having said that, I do think it will be approved simply because it appears that both sides are in agreement. The biggest immediate impact is that schools who opted in will be permitted to pay players directly. They will also have to cut their rosters down, meaning some players will be forced to leave the school if they want to continue to compete.

There will also be a clearinghouse set up to approve all NIL deals in addition to what the athletes are being paid directly from the schools.

The long term problems with this is that no one represented the players, and that will unquestionably result in more lawsuits down the road.

From the article...

"There's going to be significant questions moving forward as to what kind of powers that clearinghouse has and whether the clearinghouse is even legal," he said.
It is not legal. It is ridiculous how not legal this is. Yet, they're doing it! I guess something being illegal has never stopped the NCAA from doing it before, which is why they're in the mess that they're in.

What happens next if the settlement is approved?
The simple answer is: even more lawsuits. There are already more than a dozen lawsuits about various questions that remain open despite this settlement, such as whether the NCAA's player eligibility rules are legal and whether players should be classified as employees under federal labor law
YES!!! That is what will happen!! This idea that once the NCAA gets this settled that there will finally be an end to all of this litigation is so fucking stupid I don't even know how to properly put it into words. Even if there was to be no future litigation, what they are doing is bad for college sports. But since there will certainly be more litigation, it is even WORSE for college sports!!!

Why are so many of the same people who created this mess still in positions of power that enable them to make important decisions????