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On June 6, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval to the House v. NCAA settlement, marking a foundational shift in the governance and economic structure of college athletics.^[i] The settlement allows schools to directly compensate student-athletes through a revenue-sharing model tied to institutional athletic revenues, fundamentally reshaping the longstanding amateurism model. It also provides for the distribution of $2.576 billion in damages to current and former Division I athletes and eliminates NCAA-imposed scholarship limits across all sports. While the agreement stops short of explicitly classifying athletes as employees, it raises substantial legal questions regarding the application of federal labor law, the future scope of Title IX protections, and the financial sustainability of non-revenue sports programs, particularly those within women's athletics.