"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."
--Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh
It's important to note, the case was specifically limited to Name Image and Likeness, but he's absolutely telegraphing that they're going to slap down practically anything the NCAA wants to appeal that they see as limiting the players ability to earn, and making guys less attractive by having to sit out, regardless of frequency, would almost certainly qualify.
The portal is just a way to keep track of what's going on, and facilitate a process.
I have some limited history on transfer portal and welcome your further inputs……
Transfer portal: for ages, athletes could transfer with the caveat that a redshirt year was required prior to becoming eligible at the new school. At some point in time, athletes could appeal the redshirt year
due to hardship. Individual cases reviewed by the NCAA. New legislation followed adopting the open transfer portal with the only restriction being a one time transfer without redshirt. If an athlete elected to transfer again, a redshirt year would apply? This seems to have been amended to “free agency” examples being UCSB’s Traore and LB’s Lassina?
After years in courts, NIL came into play. NIL has become the primary emphasis behind the transfer portal
Does this guy consume any information other than the stuff his coaching cronies say? The NCAA doesn't have any true authority over these policies. I'll bash the NCAA on a long list of things, but in this case they're simply adjusting the policies to adhere to legal cases they've lost in court, or those they know they have no chance of winning when (not if) challenged. Unless Congress gives the NCAA an anti trust exemption, this is the new normal. Potentially, they could allow the players to unionize, then collectively bargain the rules, but that undoubtedly puts the athletes in position to get into the schools/conferences knickers on TV money and gate revenue. Given a choice, the schools will deal with the chaos and let the athletes fight over the (relative) crumbs provided by the collectives.
Fran Frischilla during last night’s NIT semis has it right. If the NCAA doesn’t step in soon and rectify the transfer portal policy, college basketball is going to be ruined. the game will quickly change into 60-75 semi-pro teams
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