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Interview With Leigh Steinberg On House vs NCAA Lawsuit And College Athletes Getting Paid By Schools
Zennie62Media, Inc. is excited to present the legendary Super Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg, and talking about a subject that he’s an expert in: the payment of college athletes for their on-field-work.
Leigh Steinberg has been involved in advocating for athletes’ rights, particularly in the realm of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL). He’s talked about NIL on Zennie62Media before, but that was in a world where college players were not able to draw a salary for playing.
Now , after House vs NCAA Lawsuit Settlement, its a new world.
The Basics: What the Settlement Does
At its core, the settlement achieves three things:
Monetary Relief: The NCAA and the Power Five conferences will pay $2.576 billion over ten years to former and current Division I athletes across a wide range of sports, compensating them for past restrictions which prohibited college athletes from receiving compensation for use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) and related antitrust claims.
Future Compensation Structure: Starting in the 2025–26 academic year, Division I schools that opt into the settlement can share a capped amount of athletic revenue —initially estimated at $20 million per institution—directly with athletes.
Rule Reforms: The settlement ushers in a new era of NCAA rules, including eliminating scholarship caps, implementing roster limits, and establishing a more structured system of NIL enforcement by including arbitration rights for student-athletes and narrowly tailored restrictions on payments from “Associated Entities and Individuals,” such as major donors or affiliated collectives.
What This Means for Schools
For university counsel and compliance officers, the changes are nothing short of tectonic. Here’s what matters now:
1. Compliance Is Now a Competitive Imperative
Under the terms of the settlement, the five Power Conferences—the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC—are automatically bound by the new rules. All other Division I conferences and member institutions must choose whether to affirmatively opt in by June 15, 2025, to share in the settlement’s benefits and protections and to implement the new revenue sharing model.
For schools electing to join, institutions must design and implement:
New revenue sharing policies for athletes, ensuring that all financial benefits provided to athletes fall within the designated cap and comply with NCAA reporting.
Eligibility and roster management protocols must be updated in light of the settlement’s elimination of scholarship limits and the introduction of new roster limits. While schools now have more flexibility in awarding scholarships and providing athletes with other financial benefits during their tenure as students, they must comply with team-specific roster maximums (with limited exceptions specifically for athletes who were promised roster spots before the settlement was approved).
Cross-functional coordination—between the athletic departments, legal, finance, and enrollment offices—is essential. Failure to prepare now could create recruiting disadvantages, Title IX compliance risks, and administrative chaos come fall.
2. Title IX Uncertainty Looms Large
The settlement does not resolve whether athlete pay must be allocated in a gender-equitable manner under Title IX. This unresolved legal question poses enormous implications. A misstep here could open institutions to costly and high-profile lawsuits.
While Judge Wilken’s opinion explicitly carved out future Title IX claims as “unreleased” under the settlement, she did not offer a roadmap for compliance. Female athletes have already voiced concern about disproportionate payouts.
Zennie62Media is excited to welcome Leigh Steinberg to the show at 1 PM PST Friday, June 13th.
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