OAKLAND — The landmark $2.8 billion settlement that will impact every corner of college athletics in the months ahead got its final hearing Monday, including athletes who criticized the sprawling plan as confusing and one that undervalued them and attorneys who said they were concerned about the impacts on campuses across the country.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken gave no indication Monday the complaints have changed her mind, setting the table for the plan to move forward.

Wilken already has granted preliminary approval of the settlement involving the NCAA and the nation’s five largest conferences. Barring any changes, the plan will take effect July 1 and clear the way for each school to share up to $20.5 million each with their athletes every year. Wilken’s formal decision is expected later this month.

The settlement hashed out last year by attorneys for the defendants and those representing thousands of current and former athletes has its share of critics and they had the floor before Wilken. Smaller schools say it will leave them behind deep-pocketed, donor-heavy programs and the proposed guidelines are not expected to slow the massive spending now common across college sports.

LSU gymnast and millionaire influencer Olivia Dunne was one of four athletes to testify against the settlement. Three represented Olympic, non-revenue sports and Benjamin Burr-Kirven was from a big-money sport as a former star linebacker at Washington.

Dunne said the settlement should not be approved. She specifically objected to the formula used to set an athlete’s name, image and likeness value, arguing that hers was estimated too low. In testimony over a Zoom video call, Dunne described herself as “a Division I athlete, a businesswoman, and I’ve been the highest-earning female athlete since the NIL rules changed.”

She said the settlement hardly acknowledges her true value and potential earning power.

“This settlement uses old logic to calculate modern value,” Dunne said. “It takes a narrow snapshot of a still maturing market and freezes it, ignoring the trajectory we were on and the deals we lost and the future we could have had.”

Burr-Kirven, who went on to a brief NFL career before a devastating leg injury, also questioned the errors in establishing an athletes’ NIL value.

“It’s within the specific allocation that things get real squirrely,” he said. “I was a fairly decorated football player and I’m getting paid the same as walk-ons I played with and then there are kids who I played with who were rotational players who are getting five times as much.”

Wilken listened and occasionally asked questions, but gave no indication that the concerns would upend the settlement, which also calls for replacing scholarship limits with roster limits. The effect would be to allow every athlete to be eligible for a scholarship while cutting the number of spots available — a proposal that Wilken indicated could be phased in initially.

There will be winners and losers under such a formula, though some fear it could signal the end of the walk-on athlete in college sports and also imperil smaller sports programs that feed the U.S. Olympic teams.