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According to this NY Times article, the court sounds likely to allow payments to players.  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/su...-ncaa.html



That would be the fairest outcome, as far as I'm concerned.  And if Stanford decides to die on the "amateur sports or nothing" hill, that's fine, too.  It's possible to be a great university and not have sports.

I listened to a bit. To me, the justices sounded as if they thought both sides were on the grift. But, I don't usually listen to the supreme court arguments so it could be they always sound that way.

Despite the breathless reporting, it seems to me that if the supreme court confines themselves to upholding or not the ruling on appeal in the Alston case then there isn't really the prospect for drastically changing the NCAA sports landscape. The ruling that the NCAA is appealing allows the NCAA to continue to limit scholarships to the cost of attendance but allows conferences, rather than the NCAA, to set what "education-related benefits" can be given to football and basketball players.

Of course without somebody determining just what an education-related benefit is, that could get carried away (a house? players have to live somewhere). Barring that, it doesn't seem that this will lead to anything that would cause Stanford to opt out, that would cause most fans to notice, or any of the complaining to die down.

[CTcard]

According to this NY Times article, the court sounds likely to allow payments to players.  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/su...-ncaa.html



That would be the fairest outcome, as far as I'm concerned.  And if Stanford decides to die on the "amateur sports or nothing" hill, that's fine, too.  It's possible to be a great university and not have sports.

I listened to a bit. To me, the justices sounded as if they thought both sides were on the grift. But, I don't usually listen to the supreme court arguments so it could be they always sound that way.

Despite the breathless reporting, it seems to me that if the supreme court confines themselves to upholding or not the ruling on appeal in the Alston case then there isn't really the prospect for drastically changing the NCAA sports landscape. The ruling that the NCAA is appealing allows the NCAA to continue to limit scholarships to the cost of attendance but allows conferences, rather than the NCAA, to set what "education-related benefits" can be given to football and basketball players.

Of course without somebody determining just what an education-related benefit is, that could get carried away (a house? players have to live somewhere). Barring that, it doesn't seem that this will lead to anything that would cause Stanford to opt out, that would cause most fans to notice, or any of the complaining to die down.