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  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.

The plaintiff attorneys in the case, Jeff Kessler and Steve Berman, and the defendants, the NCAA and power conferences, will now attempt to reach an agreement over amending the language — something that the NCAA and power leagues seem resistant to do. They are expected to report back to her in three weeks. 

https://sports.yahoo.com/go-back-to-the-...52232.html

The simple answer is obviously a non-union union for athletes to bargain with education-first enterprises (which of course do not cultivate an employer-employee relationship and merely restrict payment opportunities) who can then provide the non-employees their main source of compensation and benefits based on industry contracts with for-profit TV partners, soon-to-be-announced private equity deals and, uh, the absolutely paramount educational mission for all involved, of course.

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  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.

The plaintiff attorneys in the case, Jeff Kessler and Steve Berman, and the defendants, the NCAA and power conferences, will now attempt to reach an agreement over amending the language — something that the NCAA and power leagues seem resistant to do. They are expected to report back to her in three weeks. 

https://sports.yahoo.com/go-back-to-the-...52232.html

The simple answer is obviously a non-union union for athletes to bargain with education-first enterprises (which of course do not cultivate an employer-employee relationship and merely restrict payment opportunities) who can then provide the non-employees their main source of compensation and benefits based on industry contracts with for-profit TV partners, soon-to-be-announced private equity deals and, uh, the absolutely paramount educational mission for all involved, of course.