When the inmates took over the asylum

[SWC75]

Inside the Supreme Court case that changed college sports forever

Forty years ago, Oklahoma and Georgia teamed up to take TV rights away from the NCAA and open the conference realignment floodgates.

www.nytimes.com

Are we better off now than we were then?

 

[baggerbob]

Inside the Supreme Court case that changed college sports forever

Forty years ago, Oklahoma and Georgia teamed up to take TV rights away from the NCAA and open the conference realignment floodgates.

www.nytimes.com

Are we better off now than we were then?

No Steve we aren't, and it's both the Universities, and the Networks fault.
What would have been best if all the schools had gotten together and dealt with the Networks as a group.
Then they could have set the parameters for money and games to be shown.
That way they would have held the power, as it turned out it became a free for all which ceded all control to the Networks.

 

[Newhouser]

Inside the Supreme Court case that changed college sports forever

Forty years ago, Oklahoma and Georgia teamed up to take TV rights away from the NCAA and open the conference realignment floodgates.

www.nytimes.com

Are we better off now than we were then?

We as in SU or we as in college athletics?

 

[SWC75]

We as in SU or we as in college athletics?

Both

 

[texascpa]

From and individual freedom perspective - yes, from an institutional athletic control perspective - no we aren't.

 

[Orangezoo]

From and individual freedom perspective - yes, from an institutional athletic control perspective - no we aren't.

I would say no to both. For the former the yes is just a mirage.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

If better is measured from the perspective of the colleges controlling their path in athletics then yes.

 

[Orangezoo]

If better is measured from the perspective of the colleges controlling their path in athletics then yes.

Certain colleges controlling the path of the rest is more accurate. Thus really it’s the same outcome either way.

 

[texascpa]

I would say no to both. For the former the yes is just a mirage.

so, the ability to benefit off your name, image and likeness is a mirage?

 

[Orangezoo]

so, the ability to benefit off your name, image and likeness is a mirage?

Are we talking the sport as a whole or the players themselves? Also for the short term or long term?

 

[721Comstock]

Are we talking the sport as a whole or the players themselves? Also for the short term or long term?

Yes.