CletiusMaximus
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Also worth keeping an eye on this lawsuit West Virginia and a couple other states have pending against the NCAA regarding player transfers. The case involves basketball, but any ruling will presumably apply to all NCAA sports. The case regards players who have transferred a second time, and were therefor prohibited by the NCAA from playing this season. The court previously issued a TRO allowing those players to suit up and play, and had the matter set for a final hearing on injunctive relief on Dec 27 with the Court indicating a trial would happen before the end of the season. The parties reached a temporary agreement that put off the 12/27 hearing date, allowing the players to continue to play. All indications from my news feed are that the NCAA knows it will lose, and is just desperately trying to hang on to some control it has by reaching some middle ground settlement.
It was just a couple years ago a fantastic young basketball player from my community was told by the NCAA that he had to sit out an entire year because he had to change schools for personal reasons. Imagine being a young kid in your prime at the top of your game and having a year taken from you by these twats. Not really going out on much of a limb here, but I have been saying for some time all these restrictions and eligibility rules will soon be gone.
Our kids will look back on things like Tatoo-gate and similar incidents and that era will be so foreign and contrary to common sense it will be like us thinking about the Salem Witch trials.
Not great news for the NCAA in this one today. While the NCAA was in Washington pleading with congress for much needed antitrust exemptions, the US DoJ joined the states as another plaintiff in this lawsuit.
DOJ Joins Lawsuit Over NCAA Transfer Restrictions
The move “shows the DOJ's continued eye on college sports as a walking antitrust violation,” Boise State sports law professor Sam Ehrlich tells FOS.
frontofficesports.com
“NCAA Division I institutions compete with each other not just on the playing field or in the arena, but to recruit and retain college athletes,” Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said. “College athletes should be able to freely choose the institutions that best meet their academic, personal, and professional development needs without anticompetitive restrictions that limit their mobility by sacrificing a year of athletic competition.”