On the brink of a historic settlement decision, the NCAA is facing pushback from one of its most prestigious basketball conferences.
In an email Saturday to her members, Big East commissioner Val Ackerman expressed “strong objection” to the NCAA’s proposal on how it is determining back damages related to the consolidated settlement in the House, Hubbard and Carter antitrust cases. And she is seeking ways to “alter the plan that the NCAA and A5 have orchestrated,” she writes in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo Sports.
The settlement, in the final stages of adoption, consists of three main concepts: back damages owed to former athletes ($2.