A group that advocates for college athletes has filed a federal complaint that claims NCAA Division I schools are violating the civil rights of Black basketball players and major college football players by prohibiting compensation.
The College Football Playoff, which operates outside the NCAA, is worth more than $470 million annually to the 10 conferences that run it, with the majority of that money going to the Power Five — the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern conferences.
The NCPA claims that relative to the revenue generated by their sports, Division I football players and men's and women's basketball players have been denied tens of thousands of dollars in compensation annually. The group has also pushed for college athletes to receive employee status, a step university officials largely oppose.
The complaint also cites Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurring opinion in last year's Alston case, in whichthe high court ruled unanimously to uphold a lower court's decision that found the NCAA in violation of antitrust law. The court said the NCAA and college conferences could not cap benefits related to education that schools can offer to athletes.
"Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate," Kavanaugh wrote.Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.appodcasts.comMore AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25. Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.
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