Expansion Misconceptions

[Stallion]

here's the Supreme Court decision in 1984


http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/g ... 8&invol=85

-actually that TBS Network system set up was the one they were litigating. I'm trying to recall now what prompted the change in 1981

. Ahh from the Supreme Court syllabus-the infamous College Football Association(CFA):


Beginning in 1979 CFA members began to advocate that colleges with major football programs should have a greater voice in the formulation of football television policy than they had in the NCAA. CFA therefore investigated the possibility of negotiating a television agreement of its own, developed [468 U.S. 85, 95] an independent plan, and obtained a contract offer from the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC). This contract, which it signed in August 1981, would have allowed a more liberal number of appearances for each institution, and would have increased the overall revenues realized by CFA members. See id., at 1286.

In response the NCAA publicly announced that it would take disciplinary action against any CFA member that complied with the CFA-NBC contract. The NCAA made it clear that sanctions would not be limited to the football programs of CFA members, but would apply to other sports as well. On September 8, 1981, respondents commenced this action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and obtained a preliminary injunction preventing the NCAA from initiating disciplinary proceedings or otherwise interfering with CFA's efforts to perform its agreement with NBC. Notwithstanding the entry of the injunction, most CFA members were unwilling to commit themselves to the new contractual arrangement with NBC in the face of the theatened sanctions and therefore the agreement was never consummated. See id

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/g ... 8&invol=85