re: The NIL Ruling has nothing to do with the portal. The SCOTUS did not rule on the Portal.

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The NCAA is an organization that schools voluntary join. No school is ever forced legally to take the punishments given, it's all voluntary.

There are no laws involved, only the internal rules of an organization.

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The NCAA, as Justice Kavanaugh pointed out, is really an economic cartel. Its rules largely are designed to protect that cartel's economic viability.

The reason the NCAA is having an existential crisis is because the Supreme Court has declared that the economic cartel the NCAA protects is illegal and cannot continue.

It's never been about "amateurism." It's always been about money--who makes it, who gets it, and most importantly, who controls it.

This whole thing is testing some people's long-professed love of the free market. People always claim they love free markets, until a free market gets ready to swallow something they like. If we really believe that free markets are the most efficient allocation methods, then we should embrace this.