A court filing in the multibillion-dollar college sports lawsuit argues the proposed remedy for the roster-limit rule holding up the case does not go far enough in protecting walk-on and other athletes who lost their spots when schools started cutting players in anticipation of the settlement being approved.
Attorneys for Michigan walk-on football player John Weidenbach and Yale rower Grace Menke filed a brief last week responding to the proposal that any athlete who had lost a spot because of the roster-limit rule not count against the cap when it goes in place next school year.
It's the roster caps that have prevented U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken from approving the 2.78 billion settlement, which is designed to allow schools to pay players directly beginning later this year.
Wilken suggested any athlete already on a roster be "grandfathered in" for the rest of their college career, so as not to count against the new roster limits. The limits, while expanding scholarship opportunities across all sports, are expected to cost thousands of athletes - most of them walk-ons or on partial scholarships - their spots on rosters.
Wilken is accepting objectors' filings through Tuesday, then giving the NCAA and plaintiffs through Friday to rebut those arguments.