🤯 Wow, Wow, Wow!

I just found out about a SportsWise podcast episode featuring House vs. NCAA co-lead attorney Steve Berman 🎙️⚖️. The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes—this settlement is a disaster 🚨. The conferences are panicking over future lawsuits 😨, they’ve essentially price-fixed athlete compensation 💰📉, and the plaintiff attorneys seem eager to push this through and cash in 💵🏃‍♂️.  This settlement is 100% going to be challenged.

I highly recommend listening, but one of the wildest exchanges is below ⬇️:

🔹 (Host) Gabe Feldman: "NCAA or is it these autonomy commissioners, autonomy conferences? It sounds, at least from this perspective, that the conference commissioners played a significant role."

🔹 Steve Berman: "Oh, yes, they played a huge role. The very first time we met, we were at the O’Hare Hilton—a very depressing place 🏨😅. The mediator comes down and says, 'We’re starting 30 minutes late because they’re all meeting upstairs.'

I turned to Kessler —most antitrust cases, we try to find evidence that they met. 🕵️‍♂️📜. Here, they’re asking us to wait while they conspire how to fix the price of paying college athletes! 😳🤦‍♂️ There were a lot of ironies in the settlement process.”

🎧 Listen to the full podcast (Ep. 74) here:
👉 SportsWise Podcast – House Settlement Breakdown