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The cold, dead hand of Adam Smith is even pushing the NFL in new directions. There aren’t enough billionaire families with enough money to support teams in the manner the NFL would like, so they’re opening the rules to allow private equity firms...

Need to get the movies thread going. It’s a dry spell for a while

Likewise.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. We had Luka in hand, and traded for Trae (hit) and Cam (miss). I watched that trade on a plane, and even I was saying “what are you doing???”

Same algorithm as FanDuel, I guess

There are talented players in the portal, in positions of need. Certainly possible

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That enables direct payments and allows the schools to restrict outside income. That doesn’t enable a salary cap. A salary cap would require coordination between the schools, which would require an antitrust exemption.

This is really one sided in terms of what they wrote. The NCAA is hoping the plaintiffs accept the settlement. I don’t see a quote from the plaintiffs The NCAA is hopeful that other plaintiffs will sign on to the settlement. If other plaintiffs don’t sign on to the settlement, they may lobby...

Without an antitrust exemption? That’s illegal constraint of trade, which is how we got here.

Ain’t no Congress in that article. It’s a court case.

The B word (bankruptcy) came up, with the conferences having to pay the bill in the House case. It doesn’t even preclude other lawsuits https://sports.yahoo.com/docs-ncaa-could-face-20b-in-damages-bankruptcy-if-proposed-settlement-offer-isnt-agreed-upon-232315637.html

I guess there’s nothing stopping him, but that seems wrong even in current NCAA terms

We are in the current NIL situation because colleges didn’t have employment contracts with college athletes. Therefore, courts ruled that blocking external income was illegal restraint of trade Colleges still don’t give employment contracts to college athletes, so they can’t block outside...

To make a cap, schools would have to coordinate. A cap is coordinating, by definition. For that to be legal, there would need to either be enough competition between leagues—and a conference explicitly setting a lower cap than a competing conference would kill recruiting—or there needs to be an...

Some players got older. They also traded players like Kevin Huerter to make room for other players who didn’t pan out. In isolation, you can explain any single move. Together, they add up to having a lottery pick again. None of the moves seem to work.

Big 12 AD says similar things to regular guys https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/cyclone-insider/2024/05/09/jamie-pollard-big-ten-sec-college-football-playoff-iowa-state-cyclones-athletics-director/73585392007/

If he comes back, he’s had the great experience of an NBA “summer camp”.

If he crushes it in G League, maybe. I don’t think any of our recent transfers change anything, other than make it easier for him to play his position Ndongo is a forward. We brought in centers. We shored up the positions he doesn’t play

The ACC members—and fan bases for that matter—haven’t been aligned. there’s not much you can do when there isn’t common purpose. The attendance is related to the game day environment. Which causes the other is fair game to argue.