Uh oh. The plantiff here is challenging the new NCAA limits on athlete compensation. This essentially is referring to the limited FCOA stipends the NCAA agreed to a couple of years ago.


The NCAA will have to return to court to defend its new limits on the compensation college athletes can receive for playing sports, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken set a trial date of Dec. 3 for the lawsuits, which seek to prevent the NCAA and a group of 11 major conferences from collectively confining athletes to receiving scholarships covering tuition, fees, room, board, books and incidental costs of attending college.

Wilken is the same judge who oversaw the Ed O'Bannon antitrust trial, which resulted in a finding against the NCAA that was modified on appeal.

Both sides in these cases had asked Wilken for a summary judgment ruling in their favor without a trial.

In a 36-page opinion, Wilken did not give either side total victory. However, she rejected several of the NCAA’s critical contentions and set the stage for the plaintiffs to seek a new system that would apply to Division I men’s and women’s basketball players and to football players at Football Bowl Subdivision schools.

The plaintiffs have proposed that limits on athletes’ compensation be set on a conference-by-conference basis, a change that could open the door to athletes being able to capitalize on their names, images and likeness if a conference's schools chose to go that way.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co...467495002/

The NCAA isn't capable of reacting well and adapting to changing times and changing attitudes. They are not going to change unless forced to, just as with the Georgia/Oklahoma court case that resulted in schools being able to sell their own broadcast rights.