Joe Ovies and Joe Giglio discuss how the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling on a narrow case subject has wider implications.
the reason why everybody's making a big deal out of it today, even though it was a very narrow scope of what was decided on today, basically you can give a player a laptop for educational purposes. It was Brett Kavanaugh's concurring opinion. Kavanaugh wrote, quote, nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate. The argument is the N. C. Double A. Has always used here. Is that oh people love college sports because they don't get paid. People love college sports because they're just amateurs. Right? That was an argument that used to be used in the olympics. I don't know about you. But olympics ratings continue to be pretty awesome, even though they're not amateurs anymore. Right, cavanaugh continued quote. And under ordinary principles of antitrust law it is not evident why college sports should be any different. The N. C double A is not above the law. He went on to give examples the most damning. He used cooks and lawyers as an analogous, basically saying arguments to fix wages under the same premise that the N. C double A uses that fans like it this way, or you're doing it for the love of the job in the case of the lawyer, he goes, nobody expects wage fixing for lawyers because they expect lawyers to do it. For, quote, the love of the law, like, oh man, that's Chef's kiss good from Red cavanaugh. This opens up future lawsuits, basically what cavanaugh's writing, he's signaling to everybody else, hey, we all know the N. C double A is a house of cards, so if you want to continue to challenge this, keep challenging it. Because we've basically laid out how we feel about the N. C double A will be curious to see who now goes after it in the future. The pandemic laid the hypocrisy of the N. C double A bear, right? The gig was completely up. All of the unspoken parts were obvious to everyone. But what this is joe, this is this puts it in writing, this is the Supreme Court. This I had to use one of my favorite lines. This isn't Tuesday night in a baton rouge district court, my friend, this is this, this is the Supreme Court and I'm an outspoken critic of the N. C double A. For good reason. There they are a cartel. They are completely to use Brett Kavanaugh's words, They have suppressed the pay of athletes who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenues for colleges every year. And then there's a disproportionate number of the athletes who generate the money are black and the people who make money off of them are white. Like how we haven't seen that this thing is broken and has been broken. Guess what? It has been for a long time. But as long as Mark Emmert is in charge of the N. C. Double A. I'm not quite sure if they're ever going to change their strategy. The fact that the N. C. Double A. Even wanted this to go to the Supreme Court. I can again they were hoping someone was going to save them. That was their strategy. I can't come up with any other example than there's a famous news image. Right? It's this local tv report and the graphic says it's basically man stabbed. Quote from man stabbed quote, what are you gonna do stab me? Well that's the N. C. Double A. Well what are you gonna do? Are you gonna tell us that our entire system is breaking antitrust laws? Well, yes, actually that is what we're going to do. That's what Brett Kavanaugh did. The incredible I just keeps getting dunked on and it's kind of funny to see and the money keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And that's where the people who are like, oh the scholarship is enough and it's an amateur sport and I don't want it to be professionalized. That's where they get it wrong. It's already professionalized. It's just you're cutting out the labor force from the Revenue Post script by the way, while spending millions of dollars over the last 10, you know, last decade in according the Supreme Court and Congress and Senate, right? Like they knew this was coming, they knew it was and they've been holding their breath this whole time. To your point about the hit me with the knife, right? This isn't like some referendum on name, image and likeness to what happened to the N C double A today. This is going to shake the entire core of his of its existence. So this is bipartisan efforts to tell the N C double A. Yeah. Your system isn't good. Your system is crap. It's you are this, this is breaking yourself trust. Long your system is built on a lie essentially. Yes. And what's, what's even more interesting is that the N C double A continues to argue like there's nothing going on here. Like it's not that big of a deal, not not that big of a deal on a dog with the fire. This is fine. This is fun. In an interview with USa, Today's sports N C double A President, Mark Emmert, N C double A general counsel scott barbie and outside general. Outside lawyer general. I'm sorry Jeffrey Michigan said, little weight should be given to what kevin all wrote quote. The notable thing is that eight other justices did not agree with that and wouldn't sign onto it. So I don't think you can make very much of that concurrence. It's his own view and he's writing for himself. So I think that's just not at all central to what's being decided today. Now, I want you to say that about what Neil Gorsuch wrote in the actual ruling on the case where the dude went all the way back 8-1852 to roast. The very concept of amateurism and money. Everything is connected. Okay, why do you think we suddenly got this magical 12 team playoff which is gonna like quadruple their income in college football? Oh, because they knew this was coming. They knew they were they were, they knew they were holding a losing hand. They've been holding a losing hand for a century. And finally, someone had the audacity to tell them you have no clothes.