Final Hearings for House Case Settlement on Apr 7th

[xubrew]

In what is perhaps far more important than the national championship game today, the final hearings of the House Case Settlement are taking place today.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1...gal-settlement

This is an objectively bad settlement. The NCAA has said that once this is settled they can set up guardrails from future lawsuits. That just doesn't make any sense at all. As this article points out, the results of this settlement will be far MORE lawsuits, which will result in the NCAA losing even more power and more separation between the P4 conferences and everyone else.

Having said that, I do think it will be approved simply because it appears that both sides are in agreement. The biggest immediate impact is that schools who opted in will be permitted to pay players directly. They will also have to cut their rosters down, meaning some players will be forced to leave the school if they want to continue to compete.

There will also be a clearinghouse set up to approve all NIL deals in addition to what the athletes are being paid directly from the schools.

The long term problems with this is that no one represented the players, and that will unquestionably result in more lawsuits down the road.

From the article...

"There's going to be significant questions moving forward as to what kind of powers that clearinghouse has and whether the clearinghouse is even legal," he said.

It is not legal. It is ridiculous how not legal this is. Yet, they're doing it! I guess something being illegal has never stopped the NCAA from doing it before, which is why they're in the mess that they're in.

What happens next if the settlement is approved?
The simple answer is: even more lawsuits. There are already more than a dozen lawsuits about various questions that remain open despite this settlement, such as whether the NCAA's player eligibility rules are legal and whether players should be classified as employees under federal labor law

YES!!! That is what will happen!! This idea that once the NCAA gets this settled that there will finally be an end to all of this litigation is so fucking stupid I don't even know how to properly put it into words. Even if there was to be no future litigation, what they are doing is bad for college sports. But since there will certainly be more litigation, it is even WORSE for college sports!!!

Why are so many of the same people who created this mess still in positions of power that enable them to make important decisions????

[waggy]

Maybe the only solution is profit sharing.

[Xville]

I guess my question is...at the bottom of the article it mentions those involved with the universities going to capitol hill to figure out a way to shield themselves from further legislation when this goes thru...how do they plan to do that?

[xubrew]

I guess my question is...at the bottom of the article it mentions those involved with the universities going to capitol hill to figure out a way to shield themselves from further legislation when this goes thru...how do they plan to do that?

They are lobbying for congress to pass a law giving the NCAA exemption from antitrust laws. MAYBE that will work, but I'm not expecting that it will, much less counting on it to happen. Here is why...

Whenever you ask anyone from the NCAA what their argument is for receiving such an exemption, their only answer is "Well, we need it."

OH! Well, then!!

[Xville]

They are lobbying for congress to pass a law giving the NCAA exemption from antitrust laws. MAYBE that will work, but I'm not expecting that it will, much less counting on it to happen. Here is why...

Whenever you ask anyone from the NCAA what their argument is for receiving such an exemption, their only answer is "Well, we need it."

OH! Well, then!!

Yeah that's why i asked, thought i was missing something.didn't the courts already rule that they shouldn't have that exemption? Isn't that what opened up this whole can of worms in the first place? Dunno what congress is going to do to prevent the courts from ruling the same way again and again. Confused as to what the ncaa is thinking.

[xubrew]

Yeah that's why i asked, thought i was missing something.didn't the courts already rule that they shouldn't have that exemption? Isn't that what opened up this whole can of worms in the first place? Dunno what congress is going to do to prevent the courts from ruling the same way again and again. Confused as to what the ncaa is thinking.

You've pretty much got it. The courts ruled the NCAA was violating antitrust law. Several times, in fact. No decision was actually technically made that they shouldn't have an exemption because a the time the issue of an exemption had not been brought up. The courts just said that the NCAA was in violation of it, and they absolutely were.

Now they're lobbying congress to give them an exemption, which would mean they would no longer legally have to follow the antitrust laws. And their lega argument as to why they should have such an exemption is, as best I can tell, completely nonexistent.

[xu82]

Thank goodness we have the government to save us.


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[xubrew]

It is looking like the judge will not approve the settlement before the college football transfer portal opens, which means another cycle of NIL deals will be completely unrestricted.

The bigger problem seems to be that the settlement itself violates antitrust law and will result in more litigation in the future. The market is being set now. It will be very easy to prove that the rules of the settlement unfairly impact the market for the players.

This is a long way from over. The NCAA has insinuated that once they had a settlement there would be control. That is absolutely and comedically false.

[JTG]

According to all the Brew posts, everyone should just give up and stop trying to fix things because no matter what is proposed some half wit judge will declare is unconstitutional. Players can stay for 10 years if they want., transfer monthly, because there can be no rules. Try going to all your previous bosses and demanding reparations because you didn't receive enough pay. It's all absolutely absurd.

[xubrew]

According to all the Brew posts, everyone should just give up and stop trying to fix things because no matter what is proposed some half wit judge will declare is unconstitutional. Players can stay for 10 years if they want., transfer monthly, because there can be no rules. Try going to all your previous bosses and demanding reparations because you didn't receive enough pay. It's all absolutely absurd.

Well geez! I'd hate to think that I was giving the impression that the NCAA has handled all of this very stupidly and is continuing to do so.