Collective bargaining is the same in 2024 as it was in 2004, and 1984 and will be in 2044.
This could potentially be big news...
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Aww look at you learning from others to not have such a fragile ego. Adorable
This would probably change quite a few players. If JUCO doesn't count towards your eligibility, that's going to open up a lot of players to the potential transfer portal. I realize this is only one ruling, but the wheels are in motion
Diego Pavia granted eligibility for 2025 season: Vanderbilt QB wins injunction in antitrust case vs. NCAA
Pavia is arguing that junior college seasons should not count against NCAA eligibilitywww.cbssports.com
Shít just keeps getting even more comical.
Every time some common sense has a chance to enter the discussion….the complete opposite happens.
This is the only solution I see, assuming Congress is not going to hand out anti-trust exemptions. It is almost poetic justice....the whole concept of amateur student-athletes was coined by the NCAA to avoid paying workers comp to the widow of a player who died from game injuries. Now the only way to save the NCAA is to declare the athletes employees and let them unionize.
The NCAA is clearly a monopoly with zero competition. But even if you broke up the NCAA and let the conferences govern their sports leagues, the conferences would then control the market and be subject to antitrust laws. And the minute the conferences tried to work together to harmonize their rules, they would be guilty of collusion.
The only real question is whether there will be one college athletes' union, or whether each sport will form its own union?
While I support the concept of anti trust laws to protect consumers and employees, I hate the vague way our anti trust laws were written. Sports leagues should be able to set their own rules for competition, as long as they are not too arbitrary and capricious. Then people either compete under those rules or find some other way to make a living.
Federal age discrimination laws don't apply until you discriminate against someone over 40. Some state laws protect younger workers, but, generally, age is not a protected class.
NCAA Div 1 does not have an age limit, per se, but in theory an athlete is supposed to enroll in college within 12 months of graduating high school, and then they have 5 years to complete 4 years of eligibility. Then there are the exceptions for injury, transfer, COVID, military service (even if that makes you a 35 year old kicker for UVA) religious missions, etc., etc., and for some reason an athlete can go play minor league baseball for 9 years and THEN enroll in college for the first time and play QB for FSU.
So, yeah, it seems like those flimsy restrictions will soon fall.
And, as mentioned, why should a college limit its roster to people actually enrolled in the school? Seems like an unfair limit on someone's earnings.
That way, they don't risk not getting an NFL offer with a pay cut.This would probably change quite a few players. If JUCO doesn't count towards your eligibility, that's going to open up a lot of players to the potential transfer portal. I realize this is only one ruling, but the wheels are in motion
Diego Pavia granted eligibility for 2025 season: Vanderbilt QB wins injunction in antitrust case vs. NCAA
Pavia is arguing that junior college seasons should not count against NCAA eligibility
Correct. That rule should be abolished. Let them go straight to the NFL out of high school if they're good enough. If they're not, return to the ways of old with a "scholarship" and that's it.