re: Blame California

Watch your mouth how you talk to your superiors. Southerners are the best this country has to offer.

Stop pocket watching commie.
Never understood why some people are obsessed with what others make.

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Just proves liberals ruin everything they touch.

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Liberals do ruin everything they touch but this NIL/portal thing has nothing to do with left vs right. These guys weren't leftists....

Alston decision
One can count on two hands how often a case involving sports has reached the U. S. Supreme Court, so sports business and law nerds like myself were giddy last week when it happened in a case regarding limitations on benefits for college athletes.

In a 9–0 unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision that NCAA restrictions on “education-related benefits” for college athletes violated antitrust law. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion in favor of the plaintiffs, albeit a narrow decision dealing only with education-related benefits and not the larger issue of pay-for-play or other big-picture issues with college athletes. And there was language the NCAA has since claimed as a “win” for itself: It was still free to create limits on benefits unrelated to education.

While there was a narrow focus to the overall ruling, the case, as noted below, appears to be a harbinger for the NCAA of things to come.

Kavanaugh cut deep
Trying to read the tea leaves from oral arguments with a Supreme Court case is a dangerous exercise, but in this case the questioning held true to form. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was clearly the most strident justice in his questioning of the NCAA lawyer during the presentation of the case, and his written concurring opinion took a sledgehammer to the organization.

Kavanaugh attacked the circular nature of the NCAA’s argument that athletes’ not being paid is a defining feature of college sports and drew stark analogies to how preposterous the NCAA’s business model would look in other industries: highly violative of antitrust law. Here is one of his many savaging remarks: “Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate. … The NCAA is not above the law.”

Justice Kavanaugh seemed to be inviting the next plaintiff—and there are already many circling—to “bring it on” to the Supreme Court, where he will be waiting to rule on a much bigger and broader issue than education-related benefits. Brett Kavanaugh, enemy of the NCAA. Who knew?

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9-0 on a majority right wing court.

Anyone opposed to NIL/portal is basically a closet commie or nazi.

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tenure

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No, the professors were mad that DKR nabbed a 10-year Old Rip from Spec's on a random Thursday.

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Off the backs of players? I guess the following means nothing: Free tuition Free room and board Free clothes Free tutoring Free healthcare Personal nutrition plan Access to state of the art weight rooms Tell that that to the student working two jobs to try and get a degree. frick these players and this NIL bullshite.

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Exactly. They were getting tremendous value from playing college football. The bleeding hearts were just dismissing it.

When you pay Coaches $20-$70 million not to coach, you’ve lost the argument.

I thank God that I don’t let politics impact my emotional well-being.

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Bear Bryant made the same salary as a professor.

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The Bear got better perks, as did other coaches. I think Dye was the first Auburn coach to have a higher salary than the President of the university. Shug lived in a nice, but average house, one he bought from the guy he replaced.

Thought it was Ed O’Bannon that started it all 10+ years ago. He did play for UCLA though.