LOL! "Break your attorney-client confidence and gimme everything you have on your phone or we will sanction your client". NCAA in a nutshell.
Wasn't this always an exploitable weakness of the NCAA? Do everything through lawyers and invoke client-attorney privilege? Seems like that was the meat market trick. Which just shows how ineffective their rules are.
I think their rules were effective because the members allowed them to be until they didn't. That had years to meet with schools and mutually agree on how to handle NIL after SCOTUS. But they did not.
That's my understanding as well, but I'm sure the members voted on whatever procedure gave them this authority. I'm not saying it's a good defense. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate.
I'm sure they did. How they applied it to this case is interesting and probably goes back their hubris and arrogance in their past governance. How defendable? I would not want to be a NCAA attorney. The case at hand with the TN and VA Attorneys General relative to the application of the antitrust ruling by SCOTUS and the "discrepancy" between a States' laws and NCAA rules/guidance will be interesting.
I figure either this judge rules for us or we'll be adding a third verse to Rocky Top about a federal judge that went missing.
Dartmouth is part of the Ivy League and a Private college, right? Northwestern is also Private (I think) and the football players failed in their NLRB case back some years ago. Things are about to get real relative to student-athletes are employees and unions, especially at Public institutions in Right-to-Work states. The legal maneuvering will be mind boggling. This is the point I think Sankey was trying to make to NCAA regarding more important stuff than revenge on UT.
It's private, and the results of the case make you think Dooley could have been representing the players. https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ard-wanting-athletes-classified-as-employees/
These guys are doing what they love too, which is to be obnoxious mouthpieces for the NCAA as the NCAA nears the bottom of the ocean.
Lol. So that takes lawyer and college head coach of the resume. As others have told them, there are more important things where they should be focusing their attention.
Blackburn and Booker teaming up against the NCAA was not on my bingo card. I think it's time for the NCAA to waive the white flag, no one has their back.
