re: Tennessee Wins Injunction Against the NCAA

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Actually, winning the injunction IS a surprise. A pretty damn big one. I expected us to lose on the injunction and win the case. This is a bigger defeat for the NCAA than anticipated.

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When the DOJ backed the portal suit, they telegraphed where this was going. The portal case has the same antitrust angle — Said the NCAA was limiting earning potential & basically outright cited bidding wars for that argument.

In this case, the NCAA allowed athletic departments to partner with collectives for NIL & then said “but hey, even though it’s facilitated by your AD — it isn’t relevant to recruiting athletes”.

Organization has always been terrible, I don’t like where CFB is headed but still glad to see them held accountable. They had an opportunity to implement revenue sharing above board but decided to go down with the ship instead.

Tenner AD actually nailed it in the initial press release — everyone has been so disingenuous about NIL… but especially the NCAA. I can’t imagine them being given an inch on anything NIL-related at this point.