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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 941488" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>1. That’s not what’s happening, and for most of these athletes what we call NIL is really “pay for play”</p><p>2. Many of us describe the NCAA as incompetent, but it’s impressive how they’ve distracted us with “NIL” instead of what the case really was about—unpaid labor and unsanctioned monopoly power</p><p>MLB and the NFL have antitrust exemptions; the NCAA wants an even better deal than those two enterprises. The NFL and MLB at least admit players work for them—the NCAA keeps pretending this isn’t a job</p><p>(Justice Kavanaugh’s comments below)</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2021/06/21/justice-brett-kavanaugh-rips-ncaa-in-shawne-alston-opinion/7771281002/[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p>"Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate," Kavanaugh wrote. "And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different.</p><p></p><p>"The NCAA is not above the law."</p><p></p><p>"All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that 'customers prefer' to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’ salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a 'love of the law.' Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a 'purer' form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a 'tradition' of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a 'spirit of amateurism” in Hollywood.</p><p></p><p>"Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor. And price-fixing labor is ordinarily a textbook antitrust problem because it extinguishes the free market in which individuals can otherwise obtain fair compensation for their work."</p><p></p><p>"Those enormous sums of money flow to seemingly everyone except the student athletes. College presidents, athletic directors, coaches, conference commissioners, and NCAA executives take in six- and seven-figure salaries. Colleges build lavish new facilities. But the student athletes who generate the revenues, many of whom are African American and from lower-income backgrounds, end up with little or nothing."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 941488, member: 282"] 1. That’s not what’s happening, and for most of these athletes what we call NIL is really “pay for play” 2. Many of us describe the NCAA as incompetent, but it’s impressive how they’ve distracted us with “NIL” instead of what the case really was about—unpaid labor and unsanctioned monopoly power MLB and the NFL have antitrust exemptions; the NCAA wants an even better deal than those two enterprises. The NFL and MLB at least admit players work for them—the NCAA keeps pretending this isn’t a job (Justice Kavanaugh’s comments below) [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2021/06/21/justice-brett-kavanaugh-rips-ncaa-in-shawne-alston-opinion/7771281002/[/URL] "Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate," Kavanaugh wrote. "And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. "The NCAA is not above the law." "All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that 'customers prefer' to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’ salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a 'love of the law.' Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a 'purer' form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a 'tradition' of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a 'spirit of amateurism” in Hollywood. "Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor. And price-fixing labor is ordinarily a textbook antitrust problem because it extinguishes the free market in which individuals can otherwise obtain fair compensation for their work." "Those enormous sums of money flow to seemingly everyone except the student athletes. College presidents, athletic directors, coaches, conference commissioners, and NCAA executives take in six- and seven-figure salaries. Colleges build lavish new facilities. But the student athletes who generate the revenues, many of whom are African American and from lower-income backgrounds, end up with little or nothing." [/QUOTE]
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