NCAA Legal Thread

[swilsonsp4]

The House settlement has preliminary approval from the judge on the case.

Judge Wilkins set a date for a final hearing next April (same day as the national championship game). That will allow for further objections or opt-outs in the meantime.

[Lobot]

The House settlement has preliminary approval from the judge on the case.

[Lobot]

The state of South Dakota (The AG's office) has formally objected to the House settlement.


The complaint, filed Tuesday in Brookings County Circuit Court, alleges that a proposed $2.8 billion settlement between the NCAA and the “Power Four” conferences unfairly forces smaller schools like the South Dakota schools to be responsible for a disproportionate share of the settlement cost.

Money from such a settlement would go to mainly “Power Four” student-athletes whose earning potential while in college was restrained by the NCAA’s amateur rules. Attorney General Jackley said while student-athletes deserve the financial award for their hard work and efforts, the burden of the settlement should not fall on the smaller universities like the South Dakota schools.

[Lobot]

Denard Robinson and Braylon Edwards from Michigan have sued the NCAA over its continued use of NIL linked to them. It's an antitrust case.

[longtimefan]

One point is that they NCAA doesn't want NIL coming directly from boosters. The reasoning being that they can't put a spending cap on that. If the money flows through the school itself, they can cap spending.

Back to bags breaking apart at the airport.

[Lobot]

Hearings got under way in the House settlement yesterday. Seems that the judge doesn't agree with some of it or doesn't understand certain parts of it.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...rges-revisions

One point is that they NCAA doesn't want NIL coming directly from boosters. The reasoning being that they can't put a spending cap on that. If the money flows through the school itself, they can cap spending.

[GoBearcats31]

From Matt Jones, Kentucky Sports Radio:

Kentucky Football placed on two years probation and will have to vacate games after the use of ineligible players for 2 plus years. NCAA said school had no knowledge This is the case where 11 players were paid for work they did not do at jobs in Lexington

Kentucky Football will not have to sit out any Bowl games during the two year probation period The violations were all Level 2 but led to vacation of games because the players became technically ineligible when they were paid for jobs that they did not perform

All of the actions that led to the UK Football probation would have been perfectly legal under new rules (it would just be characterized as a NIL deal) but they occurred before the rules

[Lobot]

Here's what was in it.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...-federal-court

[Lobot]

Per the new BIg 10 commish, the House settlement will be filed in court this week.

Filing expected on Friday per Ross Dellenger

[Lobot]

The House case settlement is in danger. Houston Christian U, an FCS school, has filed an objection to the plan.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/558...caa-challenge/

Houston Christian's objection has been dismissed by the judge.

[Lobot]

Per the new BIg 10 commish, the House settlement will be filed in court this week.

[red_n_black_attack]

Appeals court ruling has athletes pegged as employees deserving of compensation.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...etes-employees

Wow, this opens up several questions that don't yet seem to be addressed in the fact finding cases set to begin/resume. If student athletes are going to be counted similar to student employees working in the bookstore, library, or teaching assistants or grad students on stipend, then how will fair pay be determined for each type of student emplyee. Campuses do this differently today, but most have some sort of leveling system to pay entry levels less and advanced levels more, but everyone on campus at a certain level gets the same. Will a new level be created, and will student employees ask for more in some sort of collective bargaining?

Where does it stop? Most kids begin amateur athletics and have to pay the organizations, and have fundraisers to supprt cost of equipment/travel. At some point, the kids don't pay because the revenue generated from attendance covers most of the school/organization costs. However, some of the bigger high school programs generate a ton of money for the school, and under this type of ruling they would be considered employees. Furthermore, can you have paid high school athletes compete against non-paid high school athletes.

Pandora's Box is open and bottomless.

[Lobot]

Does that mean the university can have them sign a non-compete clause?

Probably not since the legality of non-competes is under review with the Dept of Labor. I think non-competes got shot down a while back but it might still be going through the appeals process.

[bearcatbret]

Appeals court ruling has athletes pegged as employees deserving of compensation.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...etes-employees

Does that mean the university can have them sign a non-compete clause?

[Lobot]

Appeals court ruling has athletes pegged as employees deserving of compensation.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...etes-employees