Marc Edelman

1000+ college presidents and, even after O’Bannon, Alston and House, not one can spot an #antitrust issue. Really?

Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger

Deloitte officials - those operating the new "NIL Go" clearinghouse - presented before coaches today at SEC spring meetings. "NIL Go" is expected to be up and running three days after the settlement is approved (if it is approved), coaches say.

This is pretty much the thesis of my student note and 20+ years of research. I am delighted to see understanding evolve of this topic

Zach Braziller @NYPost_Brazille

Everyone who says NIL is bad for college basketball, would like your thoughts on all these guys going back to school. This never happens without NIL.

Apparently I have been writing on sports law for even longer than I thought. This Print Shop gem goes back to ninth grade honors English with Mrs. Schuman in 1992. https://t.co/NfTIOy6ub3

I did a sports law panel with Greg Sankey years ago at @OleMiss. Sharp guy. A smart move for any of the Big Four conferences would be to separate from the #NCAA. Collective actions that are illegal on a national level may be okay for a single conference, absent “market power.”

Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger

Greg Sankey on NCAA governance proposal: "SEC has asked for more autonomy for the four conferences. I don’t have the authority to just depart (the NCAA). I’ve shared with the decision making working group that I have people in my room asking ‘Why are we still in the NCAA?’"

RT @samcehrlich: Yeah so this sentiment goes way past "We want to provide an entertainment product" or even "We want to make money." This i…

Privately and independently, many athletic directors understand this, as it’s the most reasonable conclusion based on labor and antitrust law. Collectively, however, we still have a group of college presidents and ADs trying to pray away (if not lobby away) the legally obvious.

Amanda Christovich @achristovichh

"Collective bargaining is the only solution." I think Tennessee athletic director @AD_DannyWhite is the first power conference AD to say this publicly. It's a massive statement, given that allowing collective bargaining means players have to be employees.

RT @EJSchorr: For anyone still confused, this is what “globalize the intifada” actually means. https://t.co/ih1rMGvLVB

All. Grades. Submitted. Those words are music to my ears. :)

What Ross calls “interesting,” I call inane. The #NCAA minimum sport rules, themselves an antitrust violation (I’ve written about this in Forbes), do not need to be saved by special legislation. We don’t need hundreds of college fencing and equestrian teams for Olympic success.

Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger

An interesting proposal at the Knight Commission meeting today to preserve Olympic sports: Olympic coaches associations are pushing for a law to (1) codify NCAA sport minimum (16 for FBS) and (2) require schools maintain current average resource allocations for non-FB/BSK sports.

One of the most troubling fictions about the state of affairs in college sports is that the Knight Commission is somehow amongst the NCAA’s reformers. As we can see from below, the Knight Commission does not exist to reform the NCAA. Rather, they *are* the #NCAA.

Amanda Christovich @achristovichh

NCAA President Charlie Baker is speaking at a @KnightAthletics event right now in Indianapolis. Listening in now. Will have quotes in a thread below.

You can call this new position whatever you want. But if a collection of colleges that have market power grant a single person authority to make collective decisions on their behalf, absent collective bargaining their title should be #CAV. That is as in Chief Antitrust Violator.

Pete Thamel @PeteThamel

The House settlement would trigger a flurry of moves as college sports remakes itself. That includes a new CEO who sources say will make "final factual findings and determinations" in enforcement. A look at a key looming change post-settlement. https://t.co/KvmZXxeCGj