Yes, their continued application of "booster" status to people flies in the face of the SCOTUS ruling.
The gist that I got from reading the suit is the NCAA is [uck fay]ed (from a legal perspective). They (NCAA) probably could have avoided this confrontation had they met with Tennessee when requested in Dec. Had they actively engaged the member Schools in formulating NIL/Portal/LOI window guardrails that did not limit an athletes' rights to negotiate NIL rather go after what they viewed as an easy mark to flex would have been the wiser strategy. The suit calls out recent FSU and UF issues with NCAA on this topic, which helps engage other member institutions.
Maybe this was part of the NCAA's plan by targeting Tennessee. We'll go after them because we just punished them with no contest, and everyone knows they're cheaters. It wouldn't surprise me if they were whispering behind closed doors about the death penalty to make an example and get other schools in line. I'm not staying this is smart or logical, but those aren't words I'd associate with the NCAA. From a bigger picture, the NCAA is made up of member institutions. It's long past time that everyone, members and the public, started viewing them as failing their members and student athletes almost completely with regard to the issue at hand. It's time for a complete reorganization of the body, or it's time for member schools who do not agree with the current implied direction (because there is little reliable direction at all) to take their business elsewhere.
It will be interesting to see how ESPN and Media companies having TV contracts with NCAA report on this. I guarantee the Legal teams are reviewing the Liability, Indemnification and other pertinent clauses.
I don't know how many tv contracts they have of any significance outside of the basketball tournaments. There's baseball and I guess softball as well, but I don't think they're in the realm of the other two. There's also the lower division's football tourneys, but those aren't that big of a moneymaker either.
Looks like you nailed this one way back when. https://8thmaxim.com/forum/index.php?threads/randy-boyd.17414/
Wolken is predictably out there doing the NCAA's bidding getting clicks and interactions with Tennessee fans. I'd link, but I don't want to give him any freebies.
Here is what I found. https://businessofcollegesports.com/current-college-sports-television-contracts/
Yeah, the NCAA only really factors in tournaments they administer, so the major cash cow football only nets them a small portion overall if anything. They make their money on the men's basketball tournament and a lesser extent on the women's tournament and other sports. Regardless, I don't foresee any network rushing to their defense all that much as a whole, but there will be some individual personalities that will spread out among the talking heads.
Feels like the NCAA misconstrued our cooperation post-Pruitt as spinelessness. They may have really thought UT would apologize, accept the blame, and beg for leniency on this one. What a cataclysmic miscalculation.
lol. RGW delivery is almost always on point https://x.com/rgw_news/status/1752788155114070304?s=46&t=ZNxDuoK-BtXwN91CvqobFQ
