The Supreme Court of the United States issued a rebuke this morning of the NCAA’s antitrust practices that underpin its model of “amateurism,” unanimously upholding a lower court ruling in NCAA v. Alston.
If you’re interested in the nitty gritty of the ruling, you can read a lot more about it here from sports law expert Michael McCann, but the gist is simply this: The NCAA is no longer allowed to prohibit schools from offering unlimited compensation that is “tethered” (the court’s word, not mine) to education.
According to McCann, some examples of compensation that are tethered to education might be computer costs, study abroad programs, internship opportunities, scholarships to attend vocational schools, etc.