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Mark Emmert says NCAA will appeal ruling in Ed O’Bannon case
Mark Emmert said the NCAA will appeal a ruling that opens the door for college athletes to receive some of the money they help generate in major sports. Emmert, the NCAA president, previously was the University of Washington president.
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Emmert says NCAA will appeal ruling in O’Bannon case
Mark Emmert said Sunday the NCAA will appeal a ruling that opens the door for college athletes to receive some of the money they help generate in major sports.
In the NCAA president’s first public comments since Friday’s ruling in the Ed O’Bannon case, Emmert told ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” college sports’ largest governing body found a lot in the decision that was “admirable” and some parts the NCAA disagreed with so strongly it could not let it go unchallenged in court.
“Yes, at least in part we will,” Emmert said when asked whether the NCAA planned an appeal. “No one on our legal team or the college conferences’ legal teams think this is a violation of antitrust laws and we need to get that settled in the courts.”
Emmert was the University of Washington’s president before taking the NCAA job in 2010.
Donald Remy, the NCAA’s chief legal officer, had repeatedly said if the organization lost, it would appeal the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed. Many legal experts think this case could be heading that direction, though it is unclear whether the nation’s highest court would take it.
Historically, the NCAA fares better in the appellate system. According to a study released last month by Illinois professor Michael LeRoy, student-athletes suing the NCAA won 49 percent of the initial cases but the NCAA won 71 percent of the appeals in both the second and third rounds.
Emmert says NCAA will appeal ruling in O’Bannon case
Mark Emmert said Sunday the NCAA will appeal a ruling that opens the door for college athletes to receive some of the money they help generate in major sports.
In the NCAA president’s first public comments since Friday’s ruling in the Ed O’Bannon case, Emmert told ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” college sports’ largest governing body found a lot in the decision that was “admirable” and some parts the NCAA disagreed with so strongly it could not let it go unchallenged in court.
“Yes, at least in part we will,” Emmert said when asked whether the NCAA planned an appeal. “No one on our legal team or the college conferences’ legal teams think this is a violation of antitrust laws and we need to get that settled in the courts.”
Emmert was the University of Washington’s president before taking the NCAA job in 2010.
Donald Remy, the NCAA’s chief legal officer, had repeatedly said if the organization lost, it would appeal the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed. Many legal experts think this case could be heading that direction, though it is unclear whether the nation’s highest court would take it.
Historically, the NCAA fares better in the appellate system. According to a study released last month by Illinois professor Michael LeRoy, student-athletes suing the NCAA won 49 percent of the initial cases but the NCAA won 71 percent of the appeals in both the second and third rounds.
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