Olivia Dunne, one of the most followed university athletes on social networks, testified against the agreement of the House of Representatives of $ 2.8 billion of the NCAA at the final audience of Monday.
Dunne was one of the four university athletes who testified against the agreement. The LSU gymnast expressed its objections to the formula used to establish the value of the name, image and likeness (null) of an athlete. She insisted that her zero estimate was too low.
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Olivia Dunne, from Los Tigres de LSU, observes before a meeting against the Florida Gators at the Stephen C. O’Connell center on February 23, 2024 in Gainesville, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty images)
She described herself as “an athlete from Division I, a businesswoman, and I have been the highest female athlete since the null rules changed.” She said the agreement did not recognize her true value.
“This settlement uses ancient logic to calculate the modern value,” Dunne said. “A narrow snapshot of a still matured market is needed and freezes it, ignoring the trajectory in which we were and the offers we lost and the future we could have had.”
Later, a law firm’s lawyer said the gymnast would receive an updated assignment.
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The president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, speaks during the business session of Division I of the organization in its annual convention on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, Archive)
The camera settlement, named for the swimmer of the state of Arizona, Grant House, will allow schools to pay 22% of their income from the rights of the media, the sale of tickets and sponsorship directly to university athletes for the use of NIL. Payments from external sources would still be allowed.
Nola.com said the agreement would offer more than $ 2.5 billion to athletes who could not earn zero money before the NCAA changed its rules in 2021. The report also indicated that most of the damages would be paid to former soccer basketball players and male of power conference schools because their sports create the greatest amount of income.
The agreement also requested a place of compensation to ensure that any null agreement for a value of more than $ 600 is linked to the fair market value in an attempt to frustrate alleged payment agreements per game.
On Monday, the United States District Judge, Claudia Wilken, did not indicate that complaints changed their minds on the agreement. He recognized the concerns and asked each lawyer new comments on various issues. Your decision is expected to arrive in a few weeks.
“Basically I think it’s a good agreement, you don’t quote me, and I think it’s worth chasing him,” Wilken said. “I think some of these things could be fixed if people tried to fix them and that it would be worth trying to solve them.”
Wilken has already granted the preliminary approval of the agreement involving the NCAA and its largest conferences. He is ready to enter into force on July 1.
The NCAA logo on the entrance sign outside the NCAA headquarters on February 28, 2023 in Indianapolis. (Mitchell Layton/Getty images)
“Today’s audience on the historical agreement was a significant step to modernize university sports,” said the NCA in a statement. “If approved, the agreement will allow students athletes to receive almost 50% of the income of the Athletics Department in a sustainable system and just in the coming years.”
