The NCAA's Business Model Is Price-Filling Labor

The NCAA must supply a legally valid pro-competitive justification for its remaining compensation rules. As I see it, the NCAA may lack such a justification. A restaurant can't come together to cut Cook's wages on the theory that customers prefer to eat from low paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyer salaries in the name of writing legal services out of a love of the law. Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses' income in order to create a purer form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail paid reporters to preserve a tradition of public-minded journalism.