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Supreme Court rules against NCAA, opening door to significant increase in compensation for student athletes

A unanimous Supreme Court said on Monday that student athletes could receive education-related payments, in a case that could reshape college sports by allowing more money from a billion-dollar industry to go to the players.

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the court.College sports raise billions of dollars from ticket sales, television contracts and merchandise, and supporters of the students say the players are being exploited and barred from the opportunity to monetize their talents. In 2016, for example, the NCAA negotiated an eight-year extension of its broadcasting rights to March Madness, worth $1.1 billion annually.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the NCAA is essentially acting "above the law" in how it treats athletes.

"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."

The NCAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.As things stand, schools are allowed to provide tuition and fees, room and board, books and other expenses related to the cost of attendance. They are permitted to make payments for certain athletic participation awards, tutoring and study abroad expenses related to a course.

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so shit can the scholarships and stuff and just make college sports a job and be done with the notion of amateur college athletics. 

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@"JimmyinSD" said:
so shit can the scholarships and stuff and just make college sports a job and be done with the notion of amateur college athletics. 

You have now just stated what my dad said 30 years ago.  

He pointed out that the students who received a scholarship were basically pro athletes.  If the colleges and universities wanted an athletic team then let them pay players to come in play and represent their college.  Makes a lot of sense when you look at universities like Ohio State, Alabama, Duke, etc.

By the way, my dad was not just talking off the top of his head with no knowledge.  He was a college professor who taught graduate students in economics at a large university.

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@"ThunderGod" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:
so shit can the scholarships and stuff and just make college sports a job and be done with the notion of amateur college athletics. 

You have now just stated what my dad said 30 years ago.  

He pointed out that the students who received a scholarship were basically pro athletes.  If the colleges and universities wanted an athletic team then let them pay players to come in play and represent their college.  Makes a lot of sense when you look at universities like Ohio State, Alabama, Duke, etc.

By the way, my dad was not just talking off the top of his head with no knowledge.  He was a college professor who taught graduate students in economics at a large university.

ive been saying for years that athletics has no business in academics and vice versa.  get sports out of our school systems and see what schools can do when our education dollars go towards teaching our kids instead of paying coaches and building football fields and such.  club sports survive all over the country just fine without being taxpayer financed.

dont get me wrong,  I loved playing sports in school ( i really loved getting out of school early on game days)  but as an adult I dont see the positives out weighing the negatives,  nor the contribution to society or education.  same goes for publically funded colleges and universities IMO.

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I totally understand.  Some of these high schools are now like small college fields.

 My dad always talked about the University of Chicago dropping sports.  Apparently in 1939 they dropped football and in 1946 they left the Big Ten.