
However, under certain circumstances, settlement money also will be available to scholarship athletes in the three covered sports even if their school, after the rules change, chose not to provide a scholarship covering the full cost of attendance. 1, 2015, when an NCAA rules change let Division I schools begin giving athletes in any sport a scholarship that covers the full cost of attendance. Those athletes would be eligible for money from the settlement if they were on scholarship during the 2009-10 school year - or if they were on scholarship at any time between then and Aug.

Athletes who have remaining eligibility when they receive a check will be able to accept the money without any impact on their ability to continue playing in college.įriday’s proposed agreement, at its simplest level, would apply to scholarship athletes in Division I men’s basketball, Division I women’s basketball or Bowl Subdivision football whose award was limited by NCAA rules to basically tuition, room, board, books and fees.
