TahoeLegend
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Very good news for sports fans, bad news for the NCAA as the Virginia AG is threatening anti-trust action if JMU is not allowed to play in a bowl game.
The suits at the NCAA and at the major conferences care nothing any more about college football. It is all about how much of the money pouring into college football they can control and stuff into their own pockets.
The most revealing paragraph in the letter the AG sent to the NCAA is:
"Whether analyzed under a 'quick look' or full rule of reason analysis, the end result is likely to be the same: the rule is anti-competitive, prohibiting more qualified teams from competing in bowl games to the advantage of incumbents in the market without any pro-competitive justification to support it," the letter states.
Couldn't have said it better myself if I were the lawyer bringing the case (and I wish I were).
The actions of the NCAA show they care nothing about the student athletes or the fans, they want to protect one of the teams from the Power 5 leagues who play like shit all year but finish 6-6 because they had the money to schedule four cupcakes and make sure they get every dollar they can steal. The suits at the NCAA and in the Power 5 athletic departments are all the same--they think they can ignore the law and the players and the fans and do whatever benefits them the most
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The suits at the NCAA and at the major conferences care nothing any more about college football. It is all about how much of the money pouring into college football they can control and stuff into their own pockets.
The most revealing paragraph in the letter the AG sent to the NCAA is:
"Whether analyzed under a 'quick look' or full rule of reason analysis, the end result is likely to be the same: the rule is anti-competitive, prohibiting more qualified teams from competing in bowl games to the advantage of incumbents in the market without any pro-competitive justification to support it," the letter states.
Couldn't have said it better myself if I were the lawyer bringing the case (and I wish I were).
The actions of the NCAA show they care nothing about the student athletes or the fans, they want to protect one of the teams from the Power 5 leagues who play like shit all year but finish 6-6 because they had the money to schedule four cupcakes and make sure they get every dollar they can steal. The suits at the NCAA and in the Power 5 athletic departments are all the same--they think they can ignore the law and the players and the fans and do whatever benefits them the most
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AG threatens action to halt JMU bowl 'exclusion'
Virginia's attorney general had a demand letter, obtained by ESPN, sent to the NCAA that threatens legal action if James Madison's "exclusion from bowl consideration" isn't reversed.
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