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re: Remember… this all started over a video game.
Posted on 8/28/26 at 5:13 pm to moneyg
Posted on 8/28/26 at 5:13 pm to moneyg
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There's no way you believe that. Was it the first shoe to drop? Sure. Would any of what we've seen not happened if the NCAA had "let players get a few bucks from a basketball video game". Of course not. That's absurd.
Well, it started the antitrust train,
Would something else have started it? Maybe. But it did not for a century. Because everyone believed the NCAA was not guilty of antitrust laws with respect to student athletes.
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Posted on 8/28/26 at 5:46 pm to LSUFanHouston
5 for 5 stems back to Pavia’s lawsuit.
That’s what opened the latest Pandora’s Box.
That’s what opened the latest Pandora’s Box.
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:00 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
quote:Well, you're absolutely right about that.
Good one. I just don’t put much stock in a judicial body that ruled corporations could buy elections because it’s free speech
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:16 pm to LSUFanHouston
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My typing skills are on the level of a diseased monkey…
I don’t know why you felt the need to insult diseased monkeys just now.
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:24 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The opener of the modern day Pandora’s Box
Olympic committee allowing pros to play. fricking Team USA
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:32 pm to LSUFanHouston
O’Bannon being an utter and total bust in the pros is what led to this. He was a joke of an NBA player and needed to find a way to get paid that wasn’t because his talent got it for him.
But, as others said, the NCAA, schools and conferences did this too themselves with the greed and money grubbing that killed college sports for what made it great, the fans.
In the end, Covid was the start of the death knell and then NIL and the transfer portal have basically finished the job.
Fans are also to blame because they have continued to support this absurdity.
But, as others said, the NCAA, schools and conferences did this too themselves with the greed and money grubbing that killed college sports for what made it great, the fans.
In the end, Covid was the start of the death knell and then NIL and the transfer portal have basically finished the job.
Fans are also to blame because they have continued to support this absurdity.
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:33 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The entire insanity of college sports has occurred because the NCAA would not let players get a few bucks from a basketball video game.
The Bloom ruling where they wouldn’t let that CU football player keep sponsorships for his Olympic ski career was so egregious.
It was clear then that the NCAA knew what would happen if athletes got any sort of legitimate compensation.
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:39 pm to Salviati
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Athletes are "labor." The whole system was funded by free labor. The NCAA was acting as a cartel that limited the labor market for athletes.
Stop with this. Players were not free labor and its idiots like you pushing this grotesquely false narrative that are as much to blame as anyone.
Players got free access to top tier educations, often times ones they were not even qualified for.
They got free housing, tuition, meals, medical care, tutors, campus jobs, access to professional development in the form of coaches, trainers, camps, free exposure for pro leagues to scout them, and much much more. Those things totaled in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over 20 years ago. Now, they are close to nearly a million in some case when you think tuition at some schools alone is $50,000 to $75,000 per year.
Then you have idiots comparing them to graduate students who got tuition and a stipend of like $15k to $20k which was used to cover their room and board and required minimum 20 hours per week in the lab, which was closer to 50-60 easily on top of classes.
Athletes had it good, especially when you think that 90% or more were going to be pro athletes and would actually be using their degrees.
But by all means, the schools were using free labor.
This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:40 pm to Salviati
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The SCOTUS told everyone that the NCAA and its members cannot reduce their labor costs by calling the players "amateurs." And if you suggest that "if players don't like it, they can go somewhere else," you're going to run into something called anti-trust. Read the Alston decision.
In the Alston opinion Kavanaugh basically said that everything the NCAA does would likely not stand up to antitrust scrutiny. The NCAA was warned and everyone that was listening knew where this was heading.
The NCAA and the SEC aren’t going to be able to prevent anyone enrolled in school from being eligible. That includes 8th, 9th years of eligibility and Joe Burrow coming back to play for LSU.
Posted on 8/28/26 at 6:49 pm to NC_Tigah
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That is money which the NCAA forced her to piss away for her first year-and-a-half at LSU, all while she was driving money-making business to NCAA women's sports as an All-American gymnast.
calling gymnastics a money making sport. 
it loses more money by far than it brings in, so no. Football is really the only one along with some basketball programs (mostly because of March madness) that bring in positive cash flow. This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 6:52 pm
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