(10-02-2019 02:07 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  How is it antitrust question if it’s amateur league? I just think that college sports is a unique situation that doesn’t fit neatly into anti-trust law. I mean, the NCAaa routinely arbitrarily bars students from playing in a “student athlete amateur league” because they already played 4 years. Every rule a league has for competitive balance looks monopolistic. Its hard for me to see how it’s not a competitive balance issue if it’s a amateur league that makes it clear there are no salaries.

A big issue here is who has the Power. In other cases, the NCAA has had the power, and has been sued by entities that wanted to change its behavior.

That's not the case here: California isn't begging the NCAA to change its rules, it has ordered its schools not to follow NCAA rules, and it has the power to do that.

And it looks like more states will soon follow suit.

So rather than the NCAA being in the Power position of being sued, it looks like it will be the entity that has to sue to overturn the actions of states that are barring their institutions from following its rules.

That has nothing to do with anti-trust on the part of the NCAA, one way or the other.