After a U.S. District Judge ruled that the NCAA is violating federal antitrust laws by limiting how much college athletes can benefit financially from their talent, the ruling - according to former college athletes like ESPN analyst Jay Bias – doesn't go far enough.
Share to twitterBroadcaster Jay Bilas, left, interviews Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo, center, on stage during the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2016 announcement, Monday, April 4, 2016, in Houston, Texas. Retired NBA player Allen Iverson, right, looks on. No matter how the NCAA classified him, former Duke basketball star Jay Bilas never considered himself a student-athlete.
Now, 33 years after his playing career ended, Bilas remains perplexed by the notion that the NCAA continues to prohibit college athletes from fully benefitting financially from the value that their talents bring to the governing body that regulates college sports and the universities athletes represent.
“The court does credit the importance to consumer demand of maintaining a distinction between college sports and professional sports,” Wilken wrote in Friday’s ruling. “In addition to the fact that college sports are played by students actually attending the college, student-athletes are not paid the very large salaries that characterize the professional sports leagues that many student-athletes aspire to.
But the decision also allows individual athletic conferences like the Big Ten, Big 12, ACC and others have the right to cap payments to athletes. Bilas is angered by the fact that college athletes are the only students that have limits placed on their earning potential while they are enrolled in school.
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