DOJ looking into satellite camp ban
I like the cut of your jib.
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Ha. Promote that man.
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But found it too yarring on the knees.
lets not yump to any conclusions, was it yarring or were your yoints out of practice
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I have to say, sometimes these - hell, I don't know what you call them - these branches off the main thread (sub-thread?) are a friggin' thing of beauty.
One misspelling, and all of a sudden the posts sound like they have Swedish accents, followed by a Russian spy accusation, and ending with a quote from one of the most over-the-top performances in film history (even for Malkovich). I'm sitting here laughing my ass off, and I'm cold sober. (Not for long, but still ...)
Well done, you lunatics. Oreos for everybody.
just got a whole lot more interesting.
Combined with revelations that league representatives did not vote as their constituents wished, and I'd say pack your bags, boys: Satellite camps are on!
I just can't imagine that this DOJ announcement, just three days before the meeting on the 28th, won't cause NCAA tools to at least remove the ban for "further consideration."
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Harbs' posse got his back yo
....or just maybe....
April 25th, 2016 at 10:00 PM ^
If that happens, and it involves football, maybe we'll find out if Clarence "Uncle" Thomas can actually ask a question/talk!
Why wouldnt they? This involves interstate commerce and anti-trust laws. It most definately should be looked at as a matter of course for a vigilant Justice Department. And college football or another industry, if laws are being broken they should pursue legal action.
Donald Trump!
Did a doubletake on DOJ on this site, but yeah, that's the "real" one. Wow.
for the DOJ, particularly the antitrust division, to investigate the cartel behavior of an industry this size. We're talking tens and tens (hundreds?) of billions, which in any other business is going to get you some scrutiny when you're explicitly colluding to constrain competition.
I agree with you generally. I'm not quite so sure the camps implicated the figures you mentioned, nor would the DOJ use the camps to peer into everything the NCAA is doing. The inquiry would have to be rather narrow in scope, yes?
Suppose the narrow focus of the informal inquiry is satellite camps--which as you suggest have much more limited dollar values associated with them and none of the TV revenue that oils the larger machine-- and that the DOJ begins with some interviews and written questions on the camps only.
Even at the informal stage, DOJ can request a huge swath of documents, such as emails, relating broadly to things such as "recruiting camps" or even "recruiting" from NCAA or conference front offices. Usually any investigated entity in that situation will bend over backwards to avoid a formal investigation and the virtually unlimited subpoena power that it brings (I've worked as counsel for companies under document production requests from the DOJ antitrust division and you have to make copies and produce everything, just everything). Your usual (smart) position is to say "Yes, Sir, anything you want and here are some delicious cookies to go with it."
Either way, anything the DOJ would see in those emails, for example, between NCAA's Emmert and SEC's Sankey, could implicate other lines of investigation that make the scope broader and broader. It spirals quickly if there's anything deemed to implicate anti-competitive behavior. What if Sankey and the commissioners have an email thread discussing TV contracts that each conference is supposed to negotiate independently? That would be a huge deal. It really is pulling the proverbial thread from the sweater.
there is such a thing.
April 26th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
i want to say who the hell would be so foolish as to leave a trail like emails.
You would be genuinely surprised. People write emails like no one will read them other than the recipient, when in fact those emails become legal documents as soon as lawyers get involved. I've been amazed by what people have put into emails, texts, writing, etc. that come out in court cases
The odds that Harbaugh reached out to his contacts at the DOJ to get this ball rolling are 100%
Harbaugh ordered Obama to look into it.
Between this and now two conference commissioners saying that their rep didn't vote as instructed (enough to make it have been 8-7 against ban), I keep thinking the NCAA won't rubber stamp the ban. There's just too much smoke and negative publicity, above and beyone the ban just being a bad idea.
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April 25th, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^
Who are the university presidents giving the finger to?
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The SEC and ACC are going to love having the Feds all up in there business.
SEE: AL CAPONE
This is AWESOME!
The DOJ does more than enforce criminal laws. For those clammoring about the sattelite camp ban violating antitrust protections, this is the first step in determining whether that is actually the case. It is interesting to see the DOJ taking an interest into it though. I don't know enough about antitrust law to be able to tell if the argument had any merit. Regardless, I love the pressure on the SEC and NCAA.
I can't wait to hear paul finebaum and all the illiterates who call his show talk about how this is another example of the Northerners imposing their will on the south.....
April 25th, 2016 at 10:09 PM ^
I don't think that there is a person following the story that couldn't have written that script ahead of time. PF is as predictable as could be when the SEC's ox is the one being gored.