TOLEDO, Ohio — The NCAA’s settlement of a lawsuit challenging its policy barring athletes from using advisers during contract talks isn’t ending debate about the rule.

The NCAA last week agreed to pay $750,000 to former Oklahoma State pitcher Andrew Oliver who sued after he was ruled ineligible for using legal advisers in negotiations with a big league club.

Sports law experts say it was an unusual move for the NCAA, which rarely settles suits brought against it.

Gabe Feldman, director of the sports law program at Tulane University, thinks it could mean the NCAA plans to either eliminate or modify the rule on advisers.

An NCAA spokeswoman wouldn’t say whether they are reviewing the rule.

Oliver, an Ohio native, had won reinstatement to the Cowboys team in February when a judge sided with him.