04-07-2025, 03:26 PM
(04-07-2025, 02:45 PM)chrisk Wrote: Since all Power 5 schools are on board and legitimate third party payments are allowed, who would have a financial interest in appealing this decision?Any athlete that wants to make a private NIL agreement that would therefore not be reviewable by the "vetting" agency, for one. On what grounds would such an agency have a "right" to compel the parties to submit the contract for review? As I understand it the Supreme Court has forbidden such restraints of trade, period. So would athletes that do not accept the right of a body not empowered by legislation to restrain their ability to make any kind of a NIL contract they want. The NCAA used to decide what was "legitimate" and what was not. Why does another "association" have the power, absent legislation, to restrain trade that the NCAA did not? Clearly obstructing an athlete from signing a contract that is in all other respects "legal" by sanctioning his school is an attempt to restrain trade and damages the athlete immediately. I see no way that can stand up to a challenge.