The college sports ecosystem welcomes the current chaos in part, because it justifies the ongoing effort to get an antitrust exemption from Congress. Which, in turn, will allow the programs to partially pick the pockets of players and/or limit their freedom to hopscotch from school to school, like coaches do.
That’s the hidden benefit of the Brendan Sorsby controversy or the ongoing tug of war between LSU and the SEC over former NFL players returning to school.
To no surprise, the statement issued on Friday by LSU president Wade Rousse includes an overt effort to parlay his school’s predicament into real progress as to the bigger-picture…
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