>> The Supreme court has just issued a ruling on the NCAA and compensation for college athletes.
The high court has ruled the NCAA was violating antitrust law,
by capping what student athletes can receive by way of education-related gifts and benefits.
>> They're the biggest pimps Atlantic to semifinals.
>> NCAA President Mark Emmert declined an interview, but we caught up with him at a press
conference. Why not pay college athletes. >> Because they're students
and they're not employed. >> In order to preserve the character and quality
of the "product," athletes must not be paid. >> We're definitely best to get a scholarship
to our universities, but at the end of the day doesn't cover everything.
>> This ruling will help determine whether schools decided to offer athletes tens of
thousands of dollars in those benefits. >> So we do have hungry nights that we
don't have enough money to get food and
sometimes money is needed. >> This is the end of the NCAA as we know it.
The funeral hasn't happened yet the last rights had not been uttered.
But it's over for the NCAA. >> This is from justice Kavanaugh. Nowhere
else in America can businesses get away with agreeing to not pay their workers a fair market
rate on their theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate.
>> The NCAA is not above the law. >> The NCAA attempted to argue their rules
are necessary to help consumers distinguish amateur athletics from professional sports.
>> It was a huge ruling by the highest court in our country.
It was unanimous, it was common sense. >> Writes the post Jerry Brewer.
The NCAA is incoherent, self serving interpretation of amateurism is as frail as
it seems. The foundational beliefs, upon which an exploitative sports Empire has been built,
have long been logically inadequate. The athletes maintain that the NCAA has,
in effect, been operating a system that is a classic restraint of competition-
in short, a system that violates the nation's anti trust laws.
The NCAA countered that its rules are largely exempt from antitrust laws because they're aimed
at preserving amateurism and college sports and because the rules widen choices for. For consumers
by distinguishing college sports from professional sports. After the nine nil ruling justice
Kavanaugh said the NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes and innocuous labels.
But the labels cannot disguise the reality. The NCAA's his business model would be flatly
illegal in almost any other industry in America, here's where it gets to a really,
really big point, one that has been contentious for
countless years. NCAA president Mark Emmert time and time again has continually fixated on
the concept of amateurism It is his bread and butters rallying cry for not paying athletes.
Business Insider reported the NCAA brings in over $1
billion per year off the backs of the quote unquote student athletes aka unpaid labor. Walter
Byers the man who founded the NCAA even said this and I quote, the coaches own the athletes' feet,
the colleges own athletes' bodies and the supervisors retain the large rewards.
That reflects a neo-plantation mentality on the campuses.
Thus another Trump and McConnell appointed Neil Gorsuch wrote the following for the court. The
NCAA seeks immunity from the normal operation of the antitrust laws and immunity, which Gorsuch
said is justified neither by the antitrust law nor the previous opinions of the Supreme Court.
Noting that big time NCAA sports have turned into a multi Billion dollar business, Gorsuch
said that a couple of sentences from a 1984 opinion did not declare then or now that there
is some sort of immunity based on the concept of amateurism. In short, the NCAA is eroding
federal antitrust lawsuits have slowly eroded strict amateurism rules during the past decade.
Politicians in 19 states have passed laws in the past two years that rebuke the organization's
rules. Will soon allow athletes to start making money from third party endorsements and members
of Congress are currently debating at least a half dozen bills aimed at reforming the NCAA.
Monday's ruling in the NCAA v Alston case represents another blow during a particularly
uncertain time for the future of amateurism, following the court's opinion announcement.
When on Monday, Jeff Kessler, lead counsel for the athletes called the court's decision historic,
saying it could have a meaningful impact on the vast majority of athletes who will never join the
pros. Hopefully it will also swing the doors open to further change so that we can finally
see a fair and competitive compensation system in which these incredible players
get the benefit from the economic fruits of their labors and pursue their educational objectives.
Only then will the NCAA truthfully
be able to say it is devoted to the welfare of the student athletes.