Paying College Athletes

The SCOTUS ruling in direct effect simply uphold the ruling already made in NCAA v Alston. Basically, the NCAA has no legal standing to prevent schools from issuing extra educational benefits beyond tuition as it would be a violation of antitrust law. It does NOT force schools to make these payments, it simply allows for them and they are capped at $5900 per athlete per year (via the original trial judge for the case).

In other words, the SECR response is just typical overreaction as has become custom in our society.

Why it is getting a lot of play on social media, radio, and the internet is because it was a rare 9-0 SCOTUS decision that was the legal equivalent of the NCAA tossing up a prayer 3 pointer only to have it swatted back directly in their face (the NCAA is the defendant who chose to send this to the SCOTUS so they needlessly brought the subsequent opinion on themselves) AND because Uber conservative Justice Kavanaugh wrote a blistering concurrence that all but told the NCAA that they’ve been operating under the delusion of antitrust exemption which was only ever so slightly hinted at back in 1983 but has never actually been granted by Congress so quit your shite and start acting within the law like the obvious multi billion dollar industry you are.

Kavanaugh’s concurrence doesn’t directly mean anything right now but it all but refutes use of cases that have been previously ruled in favor of the NCAA in current and future cases (of which there are many and will be many more). It also represents arguably the most scathing shot to the amateurism myth levied by a person of actual legitimate power and will be hard to come back from on a PR level.

In summary, the decision didn’t kill the NCAA but it basically left it defeated and defenseless to future attack. Their only future recourse is plan to fold up shop or get busy unfricking their model to cut athletes into the decisions (doesn’t necessarily have to mean schools paying players but it could)

In addition to all those benefits you forgot to mention that most players would not be admitted to the schools they attend if not for their athletic ability.

I agree and why I only hinted at this factor in my Hope comment.

Nick Chubb didn't major in basket weaving. He got an ag mgt degree to help him use his short term nfl wealth to build up generational wealth for his family and extended family with agribusiness.

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inherent racism

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Oh Jesus. You subscribe to CRT I see.

The biggest mistake by the NCAA was not allowing athletes to profit of their names. It was always asinine that players were getting suspended for selling autographs and jerseys. Maybe if the NCAA wasn't so greedy then we wouldn't be here

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The only thing I think the NCAA could have done to stave this off longer would have been a one and done like basketball, but for football. The kids that have no business being in college, yet have incredible athletic ability worth millions, should have been able to leap out after a year.

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That has never been the NCAA’s call, though. One and done is an NBA creation that the NCAA took advantage of. NFL wants the 3 years free development and NFLPA doesn’t want younger and cheaper talent diluting the market.

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you'd have bidding wars "Come to Bama we'll buy 1000 autographs at $100/ea." "No, come to Clemson we'll buy 2000 autographs at $100/ea".

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We already have teams like Bama and a few others dominating the recurring trail. Yall act like the big schools aren't already crushing it. At least here the kids can make money of themselves instead of just the schools and you have less of a chance of big schools racking up all the five stars because smaller schools can pitch the idea of being the main star instead of sitting behind a bunch of other five stars

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NCAA was honestly trying to maintain some level of integrity in the amateurism

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That's a weak argument at best. Point is the schools and NCAA were making millions of the players and wouldn't allow something as simple as selling shoes or jerseys. The NCAA was always in the wrong here

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The only thing I think the NCAA could have done to stave this off longer would have been a one and done like basketball, but for football. The kids that have no business being in college, yet have incredible athletic ability worth millions, should have been able to leap out after a year.

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Or, alternatively, a minor league system could be set up, so people with no business being in college wouldn't ever have to *be in college*. But, if the NCAA is gonna do it for free, that makes it tough to compete with.