After what the Supreme Court shared in a ruling, the NCAA should be terrified of anybody who is willing to challenge this in court. And Overtime Elite has the funding and incentive to do it.
Here's Kavanaugh: "The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels,” he writes in the concurring opinion. “But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America. All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that “customers prefer” to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’ salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a “love of the law.” Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a “purer” form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a “tradition” of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a “spirit of amateurism” in Hollywood.”
NCAA is playing with fire here. And for what? Let kids play basketball and earn money off of their own hard work.
Last Edited: 11/4/2023 8:14:10 PM by Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame