When The Supreme Court Imploded College Football
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The NCAA had complete control of college football TV. The association decided which games the public could watch, and where, and when, and how much money every school would earn as a result. Then came a new group called the College Football Association, an outside TV deal, and a lawsuit from two schools, Georgia and Oklahoma. What happened next, at the United States Supreme Court, created the fundamentals of how all of us watch college football today.
Jay Willis is the editor-in-chief of Balls and Strikes, an independent outlet that covers the Supreme Court. (He’s also a big Cal football fan.) Jay joins host Alex Kirshner to dive deep into NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, the case that destroyed the old world of college football TV and created a huge mess in its place. As we’ll learn, that took a while to clean up.
Producer: Anthony Vito
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| 1:20.4 | We'll hear arguments first this morning in National Collegiate Athletic Association against the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. |
| 1:24.6 | Mr. Easterbrook, you may proceed whenever you're ready. |
| 1:30.1 | Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court. |
| 1:34.7 | Questions in this case concern the application of the Sherman Act to the NCAA's arrangements for the telecasting of college football. |
| 1:40.4 | This Supreme Court argument is happening in 1984, but to understand why we are here, it's probably |
| 1:47.0 | worth going back to 1951. In 1951, we are a bit more than a decade into certain major |
| 1:55.2 | college football teams having their games broadcast on television regularly. Sports TV is just kind of starting to go mainstream |
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