A lawyer in the legal case of $ 2.8 billion remodeling of university sports said on Monday that he believes that “the agreement that we will reach the NCAA will resolve the judge’s concerns” for the limits of the list that have delayed the final approval.
Steve Berman, co -owner of the accused, told The Associated Press that everything is on the way to presenting documents for Wednesday, which is the deadline of the United States District Judge, Claudia Wilken, to address the concerns that prevented him from granting approval to the agreement last month.
Berman said he created a table that lists the several dozen athletes who presented objections to the agreement based on the limits of the list. He said he thinks that almost everyone will be offered a solution.
“We are still negotiating, and I am sure that everyone who lost a place on the list will have the opportunity to recover a place,” he said.
He did not come into details about whether those points would be in their previous or new teams.
The Vice President of External Affairs of the NCAA, Tim Buckley, said that the NCAA would not comment on the litigation while the negotiations are ongoing.
Wilken looked favorably in another key settlement components – Namely, up to $ 20.5 million, some schools can pay their athletes by name, image image agreements (NIL) and almost $ 2.8 billion in the subsequent payment that will be allocated to the players who said that the NCAA and five largest conferences prevented them from earning null money.
But she asked the lawyers to rework the part of the agreement that will replace the scholarship limits with list limits. It is a proposal that could make available more general money of scholarships, but it could cost thousands of athletes its points on the lists in movements that began shortly after Wilken gave a preliminary approval to the agreement the past fall.
The first response of the NCAA to Wilken’s request, which included the idea of ”grandfather in” current players to their places on the list, was to change anything, arguing that the movements of the undo list that are already at stake would create more agitation in an already chaotic process.
Wilken did not move, saying in its order of April 24 that “any interruption that may occur is a problem of the creation of the schools of members of the defendants and members of the NCAA.”
Berman acknowledged that the objectors would probably not approve the new agreement in which they are working.
“But I don’t think it’s a big problem,” he said, because he is designed to find list points for practically all the individual athletes who opposed.
Berman also criticized Nick Saban after reports arose that Alabama retired soccer coach was urging President Donald Trump to undo the damage that, according to him, has been caused by all the money that flows to university sports.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump is considering an executive order that would require some type of structure behind the null compensation that is now allocated to players who can now move more freely among schools.
Berman said he believes that an executive order would be subject to demands “as there is against many of his other orders.”
“But here, the question is: ‘Why does the president need to get involved?'” Berman said, while describing the financial profits that players have achieved in the null era. “Only because Nick Saban believes that he knows the change better and resent? This is a coach who earned more money in university football than any other coach, did absolutely nothing to make it correct for these athletes students. Why should the president’s thought lead to?”
Saban, who won more than $ 11 million in his last year in Alabama and that some have said that he should become the university football commissioner, a position that does not exist, has said that he is not completely against the players who earn money.
But he has advocated the rules and laws to prevent things from being looked like to the “Payment for the Game” model that the NCAA hopes to avoid, but that is often how null payments are seen.
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