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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2584069, member: 2932"] The logic behind antitrust exemptions (its not exactly an exemption for the NCAA but close enough) for sports leagues is that the collective rules limit intra-league competition but make a better product on the whole. The nfl draft, for example, would be literally criminal in most industries but is accepted because the NFL as a whole has an interest in ensuring parity. The 85 scholarship limitation has a similar rationale. The we-refuse-to-pay people rule can’t really rely on the competitive balance justification. Instead the NCAA relies on this amateurism idea. There are basically two arguments here: 1) the amateurism idea is bs and (2) even if you accept the promotion of amateurism as a justification for otherwise anticompetitive behavior in the abstract these rules are overly restrictive. [/QUOTE]