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this is crazy! been a few years....

@geoffschwartz right.....

Cal v Stanford in an ACC baseball tournament game being played in Charlotte. Just how the sport was intended on being played.

@GaTechAlum_IE92 @slmandel close!

@slmandel Looks like they’re meeting at Lincoln Riley‘s house in Palos Verdes🤷🏽‍♂️

Here is the resort where Big Ten folks have gathered this week to discuss "unsustainable" spending.

@slmandel it looks very sustainable and reasonably priced

@samcehrlich @TreyWallace pretty much

@TreyWallace Exactly. I've been super skeptical of any bill passing this year -- SCORE, Cruz/Cantwell, or anything else. Once the president got personally involved it was over.

It was really hard to believe the Democrats would be keen on giving the president a win in a midterm year by moving on what has become one of his favored agenda items. There's still the potential Cruz/Cantwell bill, but this seems to indicate that may be a tough sell too.

@TreyWallace @samcehrlich exactly! we saw this coming from miles away

@samcehrlich On both sides, some were using as a mechanism for support. Now, looks to be a longshot, at best, that it even gets voted on. But, we can’t act as if we didn’t see this coming, no matter how much “support” it garnered. It’s election season

@samcehrlich just shocked!

And as for the idea that many in the Power Two are already unhappy with the restraints of the House settlement less than a year after it was approved...

Great article by Ross -- happy to contribute with a quote on the legal viability of the potential of the SEC and B1G going off and doing their own thing.

The NCAA’s pitch to Congress this week: let us legally cap what athletes earn, exempt us from antitrust law, and trust us, bro, you know we’ll be fair. Why Congress shouldn’t gift wrap the NCAA that exemption. ARTICLE: open.substack.com/pub/truthinnil…

Agree. SCORE Act is terrible for Athletes

@rltsports great breakdown

I have had several people ask me about this segment on Torre's podcast so I thought I would respond here as opposed to DM's. To assert (first 20 sec) that nobody is making money on their NFL packages is misleading in my mind. Let's look at it how TV networks look at it...On a rights fee and production cost basis versus ad revenue generated, then yes, they lose money. But when retrans consent fee payments are included, they make money. Retrans fees are paid to the network by distributors and local stations. Amounts allocable to the NFL are generally assumed to be 60% (or more) of a network's retrans revenue (for a network like FOX I would put the number higher due to less entertainment programming). For simple, but effective illustration purposes let's look at CBS. They generate something like $2.5 billion in total retrans payments each year. So, we will allocate (60%) $1.5B to NFL (by the way, those fees are going up in 2027 due to contracts expiring). Throw in about $1.35 billion for ad revenue in a typical NFL season. There are also lead in/out bumps to other programming that while not necessarily allocated to the NFL P&L, do provide additional financial benefits. So, we have $2.85B in total revenue less $2.1B in rights fees which equals to a $750m surplus. Now I'm not sure of their exact season long production costs, but I guarantee you it is not $750 million. Let's assume $200m in a non-Super Bowl year. Nets them $550 million for the year. Are these exact numbers? No, but they are pretty close. So, what about a Super Bowl year? Figure an additional $30m or so in production for a Super Bowl year, but an astounding $700m in extra ad revenue. There is no additional Super Bowl rights fee. It is baked into the yearly fees. That being said, there is only so much $ to devote to the sports ecosystem for the linear networks. If NFL rights fees increase networks will start to cut other sports rights fees before they walk from the NFL. I do agree with John's analysis that the Tech streamer's don't necessarily need an NFL package in order to exist. Netflix's business is just fine without sports. They seem to like the "big event" concept for now. YouTube, Prime Video and AppleTV are such small portions of the total business of Google, Amazon and Apple it would be considered negligible in the overall scheme of things. Just my opinion of course.😎

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First @TheSavBananas game! 🍌 The kids love their favorite @ReeseAlexiades!

@samcehrlich See u soon!

On my way to make my return to the Sports Lawyers Association annual meeting! Hopefully I'll get a chance to see at least some of you there!

@Xaviermuhamma24 @CoachKyleBeyer @UTEPFB Congrats Xavier!

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Great stuff from 2 great people. And congrats again @ReidForgrave on your Pulitzer Prize!

@WinterSportsLaw @TomMarsLaw Damn. Throwing everything they can into not allowing college athletes to earn money

@TomMarsLaw Works out to something like 2 attorneys billing around 10 hours every day. Amazing

In the 56 days since it was announced that the Nebraska players were going to arbitration, the CSC says it spent $750K in legal fees, which amounts to $13,392 a day, seven days a week. I’d love to see those invoices. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@samcehrlich prob both

Lol. Either this is an issue under the private nondelegation clause or a First Amendment problem. Possibly both.