The proposed settlement of the House lawsuit would for the first time establish a framework allowing schools to pay college athletes directly, essentially disposing of the amateur model of college athletics that has stood for more than a century.
As the parties in the suit, House v. N.C.A.A., laid out details of the agreement, complaints came largely from the smaller schools that had been cut out of the negotiations and were being required to subsidize more than a third of the cost of the proposed $2.8 billion settlement.
Now, just over three months later, as a judge prepares to weigh more arguments at a remote hearing on Thursday on whether to grant preliminary approval to the 300-plus page settlement, those early voices of dissent have largely been quieted.
Even an athlete who is one of the plaintiffs in the House case, the women's basketball player Sedona Prince, expressed uneasiness amid her support of the deal.
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