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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4894690, member: 1131"] The current legal issue is whether the NCAA's attempts to regulate NIL or the transfer portal violate the Federal antitrust law insofar as they constitute a "restraint of trade", i.e., they impair the ability of student athletes to negotiate any deal that they (or their parents and agents) wish to make with individual colleges and universities. Arguably (not saying that I agree with this, or that I am even a lawyer) Federal law already forbids all the things that the NCAA is doing to regulate either NIL or transfers. So perhaps the most straightforward solution is for Congress to carve out an exception to the antitrust laws to allow the NCAA or other organizations to have some ability to regulate college athletics. They have already carved out an exception for Major League Baseball, so this would just be another step to preserve roughly the level of central control that the NCAA has exercised for decades. Presumably some greater freedom for student athletes (such as control over their own NIL) could be accommodated while still giving a significant role to the NCAA. If courts take the position that nearly everything that the NCAA currently does is illegal, then only Congress can solve that problem. [/QUOTE]