A full antitrust settlement agreement involving the NCAA is expected to be filed Friday.

A full settlement of the antitrust lawsuits involving the NCAA and college sports’ wealthiest conferences is expected to be filed in federal court by the end of the week, a lawyer for the defendants told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“I expect we’ll file on Friday,” said Steve Berman, an attorney with Seattle-based Hagens Berman law firm.

The NCAA, along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference, reached a $2.77 billion settlement agreement on May 23 in connection with multiple antitrust lawsuits challenging college athlete salary limits.

In addition to the compensation the NCAA will pay eligible former and current college athletes in the case known as House v. NCAA, the association and conferences have agreed on a plan that will allow schools to share revenue generated by sports with athletes. Schools will be able to give about $22 million to their athletes starting in 2025, a number that is likely to increase as athletic revenues for power conference schools increase.

There were still many details to be worked out in the revenue-sharing plan, most notably roster limits for sports that would replace scholarship limits. Conferences were working both separately and together on roster limits.

“Yes, there’s a lot to unpack in the House agreement,” Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti told reporters Tuesday at a U.S. football news conference in Indianapolis. “This new model is going to require a lot of changes in the way we operate. We have a situation now where schools can provide benefits directly to student-athletes. There’s a limit to that system. We have to track what schools are spending, so we need a reporting system that doesn’t exist.”

Petitti declined to provide details, but three Power Conference athletic directors told the AP they expect the roster limit for football to be 105 players. The current scholarship limit for major college football is 85. The athletic directors spoke on condition of anonymity because the conferences do not make their discussions public.

Berman said he was not surprised that the full term sheet was not ready for filing before the 45-day deadline he requested.

“It’s both slow and what I thought it would be because we have five conferences plus the NCAA. So you have conference lawyers, and then they report to all their schools, and the schools have lawyers, they have presidents, many of whom are lawyers, and they all want to weigh every word,” Berman said.

Berman said that, despite the pace of progress, negotiations were progressing well.

“We are very close to completing this case,” Berman said. “The number of disputes is low at this time.”

Once the full agreement is submitted to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken for review, a motion for preliminary approval will be filed with the court. Berman said a motion for preliminary approval is typically granted.

Houston Christian University, a Southland Conference school that competes in Division I, has filed a motion to intervene in the settlement. The school argues that schools outside the Power Conference will unfairly shoulder an excessive share of the cost of the damages, which are to be paid over a 10-year period.

Schools from non-major conferences argued that more than 90% of the compensation would be paid to football and basketball players who play or will play in the conferences named in the lawsuit.

The NCAA will pay compensation for operating costs, reserves, insurance and withheld wages to Division I conferences.

Berman said the defendants asked the court to dismiss HCU’s motion.

“There is no publicly filed agreement at this time that could be challenged. So we felt that this was premature, among other flaws,” Berman said.

Berman said that if and when preliminary approval is granted, they can begin the process of informing athletes how much compensation they will be eligible to receive. He said it is a complicated formula because thousands of eligible athletes fall into so many different categories.

“So the way this is going to work is that at some point, about 60, 70 days after the notice is sent, if you’re an athlete, you’ll be able to go to a website and type in your name and the website will tell you how much you’re going to receive under the settlement,” Berman said.

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