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Background reading: In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA's restrictive television policies in
N.C.A.A. v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=468&page=85" target="_blank">468 U.S. 85 (1984)</a>, finding that the NCAA's plan violated section 1 of the Sherman Act.
Although I'm not an antitrust lawyer, it seems to me that you might be able to make some hay out this.
On a cautionary note, however, Professor Areeda taught this case in law school as an example of the
misidentification of the relevant market. In his view (eloquently expressed, no doubt, in his nine-volume treatise), college football shouldn't be viewed as a stand-alone market but rather as one competing form of sports entertainment. (FWIW, Areeda also taught us that the real travesty of the decision was that it caused ABC to stop televising the Harvard-Yale game. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> )
Happy antitrust hunting!
I miss those Harvard/Yale bloodfests.
I don't. Screw the Ivy League. Those teams couldn't even beat Buffalo.
Why would you say that, RF?
The Ivy League pitts true scholar-athletes against each other. One might argue that it's college football in its most pure form.
Also, many would make a similar slam on the MAC.
I say that because I'm tired of watching the crawler on Saturday afternoons and finding the score of the Harvard-Yale game easier to find than the Ohio-Akron game.
Harvard-Yale isn't any more important than Lehigh-Lafayette. The fact that people make a bigger deal about it is elitism, basically. And that's what bugs me.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Dodo:
The Ivy League pitts true scholar-athletes against each other. One might argue that it's college football in its most pure form.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You could say that about Div III football if you wanted, but except for a Mt Union playoff game, you don't find them on the ticker either.
BTW, When I think of Peter Singer or Stephen J Gould I think the Ivy League definition of "scholarship" is sorely lacking.
<small>[ August 06, 2002, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: DrTorch ]</small>