Billy’s offseason is off to as good a start as his regular season finished.
Maybe they’ll all change their minds after they get a taste of what life outside of UF is like? Eh, probably not.
Daily Archives: December 8, 2023
Nice master plan you got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
So, how’s Charlie Baker’s initial stab at proactivity being received? About like you’d expect in the quarters that matter.
First, Jeffrey Kessler’s back and he’s going for all the NIL marbles.
Winston & Strawn LLP and Hagens Berman today filed a new antitrust class action today in the Northern District of California against the NCAA and the five power conferences (Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12, ACC, and Big 12).
The firms also won the Alston v. NCAA in the Supreme Court and are currently prosecuting both the House v. NCAA and Hubbard v. NCAA antitrust class actions.
The newly filed lawsuit challenges the NCAA’s anticompetitive “pay-for-play” rules and requests an injunction permanently restraining the NCAA from enforcing all of its unlawful and anticompetitive rules restricting the compensation and benefits that college athletes can receive in exchange for their athletic services. The case also seeks treble damages for the compensation these athletes would have received absent the NCAA’s unlawful restraints. This is the first case brought on behalf of all Division I athletes seeking to change the NCAA’s compensation rules.
“Despite an undeniable mountain of evidence that the ‘amateurism’ model has become a canard, the NCAA and Power 5 Conferences persist in enforcing their most onerous restraints: the ban on ‘pay-for-play’ compensation,” said Winston & Strawn Co-Executive Chairman Jeffrey L. Kessler. “Today there is widespread recognition among college-sports administrators, athletes, and college sports fans that there is no justification for the NCAA to continue prohibiting college athletes from sharing in the massive revenues that they generate for their schools and conferences. It has been a long legal road, but the time to end these restraints is now.”
You want to bet against Kessler? I sure wouldn’t.
And that’s only one lawsuit. The NCAA’s also getting tag teamed by several states’ attorneys general over the transfer rules.
As Andy Schwarz points out, the potential ramifications if the NCAA takes it on the chin are significant.
A truly proactive man would be scrambling to come up with some sort of collective bargaining framework to give every side a little bit of a win. That doesn’t sound like the NCAA, though, does it?
Nah, I didn’t think so.
Back to begging Congress for that antitrust exemption…
Filed under See You In Court, The NCAA
Letting a good thing die
CBS, what were you thinking?
It honestly blows my mind that there wasn’t a single person at the network with the gravitas to ask, “folks, are we sure we want to walk away from this?”.
It’ll probably make a good business school class one day.
Filed under SEC Football
Musical palate cleanser, another obituary edition
Denny Laine, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who co-founded two of the biggest British rock bands of the 1960s and ’70s, the Moody Blues and Wings, before embarking on a long solo career, died in Naples, Fla., on Tuesday — 50 years to the day after Wings released its most successful album, “Band on the Run,” in the U.S. He was 79.
His wife, Elizabeth Mele-Hines, said the cause of death, at a hospital, was interstitial lung disease.
Mr. Laine was part of the efflorescence of British rock music in the early 1960s, when many young musicians were still soaking up the influence of American blues. Performers like Eric Clapton, Spencer Davis and the Beatles became not just friends with Mr. Laine but also frequent collaborators with him.
His big hit with the Moody Blues was “Go Now”, but that’s not what I’m going to share with you here. Instead, you’re getting what Steve Simels refers to as “probably the greatest white-boy James Brown cover in rock history”.
You know what? He may be right about that.
Vaya con Dios, Denny.
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