Do you think the NFL salary cap is illegal collusion?

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Oct 1, 2019
11:52:04am

Skeptical Optimist All-American

Do you think the NFL salary cap is illegal collusion?

There is no secrecy, no deception, no coersion for NCAA players. The rules are publicly advertised, and people voluntarily agree to them.

NFL owners have got together and determined that teams cannot pay more than $188 million for player salaries. Is this a cartel that runs contrary to free market principles, or is this a private organization determining what rules they want to implement for participation in their league?

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Skeptical Optimist

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Dan Wetzel with a good article about the CA law:

mik3 Juan Camaney

10/1/19 8:40am

Does this mean athletes will be able to get "jobs" from boosters?

DapperDan

10/1/19 8:49am

No, they won't need to get jobs. The boosters can just pay them directly now.

Scratch

10/1/19 9:03am

He's right. But, I still see the P schools use this as pretext to separate

boscatar

10/1/19 8:52am

Does the NCAA prevent athletes from doing this now? I don't think they do

OGSuperfan

10/1/19 8:58am

The CA law means the *CA schools* can't follow NCAA rules

boscatar

10/1/19 9:30am

Does this law restrict ALL schools in CA, or just State-run schools?

OGSuperfan

10/1/19 10:03am

I believe it's all schools. Public or private.

boscatar

10/1/19 10:11am

It does mean that the government has completely overreached their authority and

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 9:03am

I don't have a problem with the government preventing a cartel of competitors from

mik3

10/1/19 9:17am

There is no distortion of the free market. The NCAA sets rules for amateur

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 9:27am

The NCAA is a cartel, where schools that compete for athletes collude to cap their compensation.

mik3

10/1/19 9:33am

Lol. Nothing that the NCAA does comes anywhere close to the definition of

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 9:35am

Lol do you not know what a cartel is? Do you understand what "limit competition" means?

mik3

10/1/19 9:39am

Athletes voluntarily sign up to play in NCAA sponsored athletics knowing full

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 9:50am

Are those NCAA rules set by competitors, and do they cap what the athletes they are competing from

mik3

10/1/19 9:52am

There is no collusion here. Nobody signs up to play under the NCAA without

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 10:16am

How do these rules came to be? Did they come from Mt. Sinai? Of course not.

mik3

10/1/19 10:24am

I'd suggest you look up the definition of the word collusion

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 10:39am

Here you go. At its core, it's an agreement.

mik3

10/1/19 10:44am

Do you think the NFL salary cap is illegal collusion?

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 11:52am

The agreement definitely runs counter to free market principles. The NFL needed an anti-trust

mik3

10/1/19 2:30pm

Wait, you're arguing that the fact that the agreement could violate anti-trust

Scratch

10/1/19 2:54pm

No, the anti-trust comment are regarding the treatment of the NFL as one entity as opposed as the

mik3

10/1/19 3:24pm

What's the viable NCAA alternative for a college athlete?

boscatar

10/1/19 9:55am

If they don't want to play as an amateur, there are thousands of professional

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 10:09am

So, if I'm an elite high-school football recruit, there's a path to the NFL

boscatar

10/1/19 10:21am

If enough elite high-school football players decide they want to get paid

Skeptical Optimist

10/1/19 10:43am

The law protects capitalism and free markets.

boscatar

10/1/19 9:31am

I don’t see how this doesn’t kill the competition. Obviously, those who have the biggest pockets will be those who win

macaroni

10/1/19 11:42am

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