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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4729687, member: 3850"] Now...if there ends up being two superconferences...some legal pundits think that may alter the philosophy... [I]In the scenario where the Big Ten is one of two super conferences, the analysis looks different. An elite player unable or uninterested in securing an offer from an SEC school would have to either: (1) live with the Big Ten restriction; or (2) play in a lower-tier conference. In this world, the restriction might well be considered an undue restraint on competition. The biggest question in evaluating such a restriction would be how the relevant labor market is defined. In Alston, the court described the NCAA’s Division I as representing the labor market for elite college athletics generally. To prevail in an antitrust lawsuit, a plaintiff would have to show that in a “super conference world,” the Big Ten and SEC constitute the market for elite college football players specifically.[/I] [/QUOTE]