Here's where Cal and Stanford fans can lock arm in arm. I totally agree. I'm really pumped to be a Valks season ticket holder and I don't even mind that we'll suck this year because I'm just happy to support a league that is growing, in line with my values, and seeks to be transparent and above board. Unfortunately my interest in WCBB has been rapidly waning over the past two years.
Probably be an antitrust problem . Price fixing pay. Plus it would probably violate the House settlement that is supposed to be entered very soon. And there is no way they can cap things like endorsement money from 3rd parties like shoe companies or Paige’s website, Flaujai’s music etc.
Exactly. If we follow the law, and especially the founding documents of this country, there is no excuse for any sort of price fixing, salary caps, prior restraint, etc. If a sport gets an exemption from these principles, it can only mean that enough fools in congress (and the folks who vote them into office) think it's a matter of national security.
I agree, individual endorsements should have no limits. I don't know the correct terminology, but generic contributions to a school's WBB program should be capped as far as $$$ given to the players. Contributions that exceed the cap could then be used to blingify the locker rooms, provide luxury charters for transportation, etc. Current path seemingly will stretch the difference between the haves and the have nots. What fun would March Madness be if 6 teams have 90% of the WNBA-level players?
love it!!
I'd welcome you point me to where in the Constitution the antitrust right or prohibition exists. Believe it or not, price fixing has existed since the founding, and salary caps are part of every major sport. This isn't even remotely a constitutional issue.
It is a constitutional issue, though it is best articulated in the DoI. But we have neglected to see it as one as a nation for long stretches. Just because a group of people (or an entire nation) chooses to compromise its own principles for the sake of a temporary advantage or convenience doesn’t make the principle go away.
What principle stops you from making this claim about literally any constitutional right you think should exist and that more than a few other people think should too? I have regularly practiced antitrust law, including in the House case, and I would just advise you that pretty much everyone in the field views this as controlled by the Sherman Act, which didn't exist for the first hundred years after our founding. Moreover, if anything, during the "Lochner era" in the 20s and early 30s, many thought antitrust prohibitions were themselves violations of the constitutional right to contract, so historically, at least, there's been more momentum to think the constitution prohibits antitrust restrictions than requires them.
No. There has been consistent money flowing to college athletes before and during the NCAA existence.
Since 1890 there has been a pendulum swinging back and forth with the DOJ involvement in the market place ranging from 'big is bad' to the 'rule of reason'(or currently unreason) with anti trust enforcement.
going to guess In the authority of Congress to regulate interstate commerce , which Congress likely used to pass Sherman Anti-Trust act and related legislation.
Bingo. Unless SCOTUS says Congress does not have the enumerated power to regulate this kind of commerce among the (many) states (which it does), or it finds some hidden truffle of an individual right in the Bills of Rights against the Sherman Act's restraints on restraints on trade, this is entirely a question of statutory construction and application, and therefore of judges-using-their-gut-judgment. See, eg, Wilkens' order today denying the settlement because a handful of "student"-athletes may get ejected from a roster.
I remember Boise St. football team team got a slap on the wrist because some of their players took some recruits to Taco Bell and let them couch dive at their place. Pretty hideous recruiting tactics going on back in the day.
Great exemplar of the ineffective, incoherent, self aggrandizing, inefficient, petty, arbitrary, incompetent organization FKA the NCAA.
But what takes its place?
Whatever emerges to facilitate collaboration for elie collegiate athletics will be far superior to the NCAA.
At the elite level they are apprentice entertainers. At the elite levels college athletics for football and basketball in particular but also in some of the more Minor sports is merely entertainment. It has really only peripheral connection to the collegiate experience.
The attendance, the TV ratings, and the higher interest in women’s basketball has never been better The players are making money that they never envisioned and creating lifetime opportunities for themselves that were never there.