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NCAA D-1 Board Chair doesn't want O'Bannon appealed to the USSC - Maize - 05-30-2015 03:19 PM
From the Article:
DESTIN, Fla. -- NCAA Division I board of directors chairman Harris Pastides said he is not inclined to have the NCAA try to get the US Supreme Court to hear the Ed O'Bannon case if the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals rules unfavorably against the association.
Pastides, president of the University of South Carolina, said that an NCAA committee is currently working on creating new NCAA bylaws allowing football and men's basketball players to be paid if the O'Bannon injunction goes into effect. Depending on the outcome of the NCAA's appeal, schools could begin offering players deferred payments for use of their names, images and likenesses (NILs) beginning Aug. 1. The payments would go into effect in the 2016-17 academic year.
Pastides said he thinks the NCAA made a good case in its appeal and described the O'Bannon decision as a "hybrid ruling" that at least would allow the NCAA to limit how much money could flow to athletes. The NCAA could cap the amount of money for NILs at no less than $5,000 per year.
"My hope would be that we'd get beyond this," Pastides said in an interview with CBSSports.com from the SEC spring meetings. "You ask me if I'd like to see it appealed to the Supreme Court. I'm one member of the board. I'm eager to see us turn the page on that and start working within whatever framework we have to start working in."
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/25200396/top-ncaa-board-member-doesnt-want-obannon-appealed-to-supreme-court