Supreme Court rules against NCAA restriction on perks

1duluth1

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This will eventually end with college players getting salaries, signing bonuses, etc.
I'd be happy if I was a future athlete, but as a fan I probably lose interest in college sports. -Winter Tim

WASH. POST:
>>>...The case is a long-running antitrust lawsuit filed by former West Virginia running back Shawne Alston and former University of California center Justine Hartman...

...Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said tradition alone “cannot justify the NCAA’s decision to build a massive money-raising enterprise on the backs of student athletes who are not fairly compensated. 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.”...<<<

 
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Complete ignores that the players get an education, tuition, room and board that is worth maybe $300,000. It's not like they are doing it "for free." There's an exchange of value for their talent. Supreme Court missed that. If this is implemented then college football will become NFL lite. That changes the whole dynamics of what college football is. Bad decision with terrible consequences.