NCAA fixing college scholarships?

[OLDLCOACH111]

Has the NCAA illegally fixed the price of an athletic scholarship below the cost of a college education? Or, is the NCAA trying to protect amateurism and competitive balance for its member schools?

A jury in Los Angeles will answer these questions in a trial that will begin on June 12. The jury's answer could be expensive for the NCAA. Very expensive.

Lawyers representing all Division I football and basketball players (there are 11,500 of them) claim that the athletes are shortchanged an average of $2,500 a year because of an arbitrary NCAA limit on scholarships.


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/lester_munson/03/27/holding.court/index.html

[MplsBison]

If they lose, I imagine they'll lower scholarship maximums across the board. All sports, all divisions.

[Za-KEE-uS]

"NCAA trying to protect amateurism and competitive balance for its member schools"
-Goals they'll never achieve. If they want to limit scholarships they'd have to do it by each individual school or it just wouldnt work