Power conferences, NCAA to vote on landmark $2.7 billion settlement as smaller leagues balk at terms

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University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that would cost the NCAA nearly $3 billion

and create a landmark revenue-sharing system with college athletes. The terms of the agreement have met some pushback from Division I conferences that do not compete in major college football. Leaders of those leagues say they are being asked to bear an undue financial burden on the damages portion of the settlement. Attorneys for the defendants in House vs.

is expected to cover some $2.7 billion in damages over 10 years to current and former college athletes, dating to 2016, who were denied by — schools in conferences that do not play big-time football rely far more on those distributions to support much smaller budgets. “Basketball-centric leagues are really getting hit,” said an administrator from a conference that does not compete in the highest tier of Division I football, known as the Bowl Subdivision. The

has some 1,100 member schools with more than 500,000 athletes across three divisions; Division I, the highest level of competition and by far the most lucrative, has about 352 schools and 190,000 athletes. The administrator who spoke with the AP said that in some smaller Division I conferences,

 

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