The Big Ten and the SEC may think their decision to ban players who have signed NFL contracts from playing for their member schools is the end of the issue. It may be only the beginning.
With an injunction allowing players like former Browns tight end Dae'Quan Wright to join LSU, the effort of two major conferences (including the one to which LSU belongs) could be a clear violation of the court order. Which invites an effort to find the NCAA in contempt of court.
Via Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, attorney Ryan Downton (who is one of the lawyers handling the case that secured the injunction) plans to request a contempt ruling against the NCAA "for permitting conferences under its purview to blatantly violate court orders."
Downton added that the legal team is considering “the appropriate legal response to hold the Big Ten and SEC accountable for their cartel-like coordination with the NCAA.”
The conferences may not care about that, if (as it seems) the goal of the conference is to leverage the latest sky-is-falling moment into the political will necessary to pass the Protect College Sports Act.
They hate the chaos enough to embrace enough of the chaos to fuel the effort to get Congress to clean up the mess that a corrupt system has created.
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