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Talk to Jay Billis here in a moment.

The NCAA's best argument for refusing to allow players to make money has always been that

fans supposedly want their college athletes to be unpaid.

Well, the NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.

This according to Supreme Court Justice Cabinot, the NCAA's business model.

He says, if you looked at all of the restaurants in a region, they can't come together to cut the

cooks wages on the theory that customers prefer to eat food from low paid cooks.

Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers salaries in the name of protecting legal services out of

quote, love of the law. Hospitals cannot agree to cat nurses in common order to create a

pure form of helping the sick news organizations cannot join forces to curtail paid reporters to

preserve a tradition of public-minded journalism. Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to

camera crews to kindle a quote, spirit of amateurism in Hollywood. Powerful words from Justice

Cabinot. Spring and Jay Billis, CSPN's college basketball analyst. Jay Walker is through yesterday.

What did it mean to you? What's it mean to the sports world of the NCAA?

Well, it was a profound error in judgment on the part of the NCAA to petition the Supreme Court

to hear that case because the lower court ruling in the ninth circuit was actually pretty good

for the NCAA. And it preserved amateurism and they read what the NCAA considers its right to

limit players compensation from schools and from third parties. So that was the first thing that hit

me was how stupid and incompetent it was for the NCAA to take that step. But really, Dan, what

this was about was the Supreme Court took this case because there was a circuit split

among federal courts with regard to how these cases were being decided. And so what the NCAA

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