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Emma Basch

Oct 23, 2026

3:34
1905 alone from college football games.
3:38
Anyway, back in 2021, the NCAA regulated not just safety standards, but how much compensation universities could provide student-athletes.
3:46
Universities could offer undergraduate scholarships up to the full cost of attendance, and there were a few narrow pathways which schools could use under NCAA rules to compensate players.
3:57
Some were related to education, and some were unrelated to education and incidental to athletic performance.
4:03
The students alleged that the NCAA restrictions on compensation functioned as a grievance to restrict compensation in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
4:12
At the district court level, the NCAA did not contend that its members agreed to compensation limits, that they punished violators, or that its compensation limits affected interstate commerce.
4:23
But the case at the district level was narrowly focused on whether NCAA compensation restrictions were an unreasonable restraint of trade, and the court used a rule of reason analysis.
8:33
Emma, do you want to talk about the concurring opinion?

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