Entertainment & Sports
Dec. 15, 2025
The cost of free coaching: NCAA's $303M volunteer coach settlement
A $303 million settlement over the NCAA's 31-year ban on compensating volunteer coaches signals that coordinated wage-fixing among employers -- even in college athletics -- will face increasingly stringent antitrust scrutiny.
Jill M. Manning
Mediator, Arbitrator, Special Master, Neutral Evaluator and Discovery Referee
JAMS
Phone: (415) 433-9000
Email: JManning@jamsadr.com
University of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA
She handles antitrust and competition, business and commercial, class action and mass torts, cybersecurity and privacy, education, employment, entertainment and sports, health care and securities matters.
A volunteer coach "does not receive compensation or
remuneration from the institution's athletics department or any organization
funded in whole or in part by the athletics department," and each member
institution may use the services of one volunteer coach in applicable sports. NCAA Division I Bylaws 11.7.6 and
11.01.6 (2021-22)
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