Just a few hours before U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken issued her final approval of a settlement in a trio of antitrust cases against the NCAA, a number of staffers at the association’s national office exited their Indianapolis headquarters slightly ahead of the typical close of business.
As they filed out in order to get to a colleague’s wedding later that night, a handful of them passed a scene that can only be found in college sports. There, behind closed doors of a conference room, was former Michigan Wolverines staffer Connor Stalions participating in a sprawling multiday Committee on Infractions hearing right in the middle of the building, with expensive suits filing in and out.
