Antitrust

College football free agency is an absolute joke. Glad there is something out there keeping kids from taking the biggest bag not even a year after signing a deal for the last bag…

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How is it antitrust? Serious question

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It becomes an antitrust question if the Big Ten (a trade association of competing schools) is effectively coordinating a shared restraint on player mobility (or NIL portability) across its members.
The hook is the reporting that:
the agreement is “a Big Ten template document used by all league members,” built for situations like this, and
the commissioner / conference office is involved.

If that’s true, then the theory is: horizontal coordination among competitors on contract terms that restrict movement (and potentially suppress the player market). That’s the same category of conduct the DOJ/FTC have been explicitly focused on in worker-mobility enforcement (no-poach / restrictions on worker mobility).