This is an issue that won't die, though the courts have always seemed reluctant to make a decisive ruling against the NCAA.
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Athletes Put NCAA Back in Hot Seat in Push to Undo Pay Limits
Pamela MacLean and Eben Novy-Williams
September 4, 2018, 6:00 AM EDT
Antitrust trial stakes called ‘huge’ by ex-Division I director
College sports governing body sees threat to amateur fan base
College athletes are headed to federal court to take another shot at upending NCAA rules that prevent them from sharing in a multibillion-dollar economy.
A two-week trial that starts Tuesday has the potential to fundamentally alter college sports, allowing well-off schools and conferences to compete for highly prized athletes by offering cash compensation or other benefits tied to academics.
For athletes and their advocates, that’s a long-deserved cut of the billions that coaches, schools and athletics departments make off their games. For the National Collegiate Athletic Association, it’s a threat to an amateur model that the organization contends is vital to drawing fans and ensuring that athletes are incorporated into academic life.
The two sides are squaring off before the same judge in Oakland, California, who four years ago sided with athletes in ruling that the NCAA’s rules limiting compensation are anti-competitive. But this time the stakes are higher.
"This is huge with a capital H," said Jim Livengood, who spent 28 years as a Division I athletic director. "In fact, you might as well capitalize all the other letters too. It has the potential to be that moment where, 10 years from now, we look back and say, ’That’s when everything changed...'"
