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08-09-2014, 03:25 PM
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/11328442/judge-rules-ncaa-ed-obannon-antitrust-case
What To Know About The O'Bannon Ruling
• This is not about paying college athletes for playing; that is the focus of a different lawsuit.
• This ruling is about removing restrictions on the money college athletes can receive for use of their names, images and likenesses. The judge determined those restrictions violated antitrust law.
• The NCAA can cap payments to football and men's basketball players as long as that cap isn't less than $5,000 a year for every year they compete. The NCAA also cannot stop schools from putting that money into a trust fund, to be held until an athlete's eligibility ends, or he graduates, whichever happens first.
• The NCAA can no longer prohibit schools from paying the full cost of attendance as a scholarship. The limits on aid to athletes are history. Each school may now pay the full cost for an athlete to attend that school, if it wants to.
• The ruling will not affect any recruit enrolled in college before July 1, 2016, and the NCAA can continue to enforce its other rules.
-- ESPN legal analysts Lester Munson and Andrew Brandt
It's about time
What To Know About The O'Bannon Ruling
• This is not about paying college athletes for playing; that is the focus of a different lawsuit.
• This ruling is about removing restrictions on the money college athletes can receive for use of their names, images and likenesses. The judge determined those restrictions violated antitrust law.
• The NCAA can cap payments to football and men's basketball players as long as that cap isn't less than $5,000 a year for every year they compete. The NCAA also cannot stop schools from putting that money into a trust fund, to be held until an athlete's eligibility ends, or he graduates, whichever happens first.
• The NCAA can no longer prohibit schools from paying the full cost of attendance as a scholarship. The limits on aid to athletes are history. Each school may now pay the full cost for an athlete to attend that school, if it wants to.
• The ruling will not affect any recruit enrolled in college before July 1, 2016, and the NCAA can continue to enforce its other rules.
-- ESPN legal analysts Lester Munson and Andrew Brandt
It's about time