Perhaps the death of the NCAA won’t come through NIL, media conglomerates, or conference power grabs. Instead, they might sink themselves in attorney’s fees.
In case you’re wondering if anyone’s keeping up with the win/loss column in this, here’s Tom Mars:
Maybe we could expand the playoffs out to every team to cover the cost of fees.
NCAA Attorneys fees = brother in law payments. You have to ask yourself why does a non profit oversight group have millions much less hundreds of millions in the bank? Makes the “ high cost of scholarships” for athletes as the reason to cap real fishy.
This is 100 percent why I support athletes getting paid.
It appears as if some have lost sight of who and what the NCAA is. The NCAA is the university and conference mouthpiece. When we scream about the NCAA, we are screaming about god ole Jere, his pals and the SEC. The NCAA does nothing g without approval of directive from the presidents and conferences, specifically the SEC and B10 these days. In short, it our leaders driving this bus into the ditch. To some extent I hold the NCAA in higher regard the the presidents. At least the NCAA has the balls to stand in front of the camera and speak. The presidents cower behind a desk.
It would seem the basketball tourney was actually paying the legal bills for the NCAA. They are a defense attorney’s dream, being paid to defend a lost cause can be fun and profitable especially if your client (NCAA and Presidents) are dumb as a box of rocks.
Hey, lawyers have to eat. Big firm guys will all tell you those fancy offices don’t pay for themselves. A stubborn litigious client with a fat checkbook and a willingness to keep losing? Manna from heaven.🤣
A fool and their pile of cash are soon parted…but wait, lets expand all ncaa related playoff sporting events to pay for stupidity….
My thoughts exactly. Even cockroaches have important functions in the universe. 😉
Herein lies one of the real issues with our society. I know an ample portion of the posters here are lawyers, but our litigious society has fomented an overloaded legal state. Attorneys are quite wise in knowing what the other side will settle for to avoid bigger legal fees to litigate. I constantly had to make financial decisions rather than “guilty or innocent” decisions. That sucked.
Now I certainly don’t want to skirt the guilt of greedy Presidents in the NCAA, our illustrious president Jere being a major involved one, but the money grab by lawyers is no less ugly than greedy universities. Just get to collective bargaining before it really all crumbles. Yes, this discussion might belong in the pen but those dollars called for my comment.
As we used to say on GTP…it’s all for the children. And Skeptic is right, it’s the University President’s proving they have no business as academics running a business. They actually gave the last guy in charge at NCAA HQ a huge bonus. There should be a criminal complaint instead.
I am so close to the edge of quitting on all college sports. Harder than it was for most pro sports, but I’m just about there.
I am with on walking away, but primarily from football and hoops. For some reason I am able to watch college baseball and lacrosse without distain. Maybe it is because they are non-revenue generating sports. The football offseason was once a time for excitement and anticipation. These days I avoid any and all college football news.
Did you check out the news that our Dawgs baseball team will have none of the Freshmen return to play? All of them entered the portal. Truly troubling.
The NCAA has been paying lawyers a lot of money to for the past 50 years. I would challenge Tom Mars in the belief that the money spent on lawyers would have been used on other things he mentions. (hint: It wouldn’t)
One more reason to eliminate the ncaa & go to a pro season & stop funding the Universities.
The founders of our Georgia colonial banned lawyers .
They were right on
elbertadawg, I know you are just repeating the “common wisdom” but law school professors have researched whether we are a more litigious society. The results consistently show that while there are more tort lawsuits than there were in the 1800s that increase is a function of population increase. The tort suits per person has gone down over the years. One factor is better risk management by insurers by insisting that their policyholders be more safe. Other reasons are that automobiles and roads and highways are safer now.
The liability insurance industry is happy, however, for people to think that there is a lawsuit around every corner.
The data above is about tort cases. There is a higher volume of total cases even accounting for increases in population than 150 years ago because of the whopping increase in divorce and child support cases in the last 60 years.
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The NCAA eating itself? Don’t you DARE threaten me with a good time, sir!