A further anti-trust challenge to the NCAA’s athlete compensation cap (In Re: NCAA Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap..)

Drip… Drip... Drip. That is the sound of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) slowly losing its’ battle to keep the current college sports model. In the last few years, there have been a growing number of legal challenges to the NCAA’s antiquated amateur model in which it has suffered a series of small loses. While the courts have refused calls to strike down the NCAA’s current system completely, the legal challenges have forced the NCAA to incrementally provide athletes with more and more benefits, albeit without directly paying them.

This article examines the latest attack on the NCAA’s amateur sports model, focusing on a Federal district court’s decision in In re NCAA Athletic Grant-In-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation.1