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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/RCocaineBurner on 2024-08-02 00:32:36+00:00.
Decision is here:
I am not a lawyer but Very interesting from a college football perspective. In their initial, successful case, the plaintiffs’ experts argued that “if the NFL Teams stopped ‘colluding and selling’ their out-of-market games through the NFL, but sold them either independently or in divisions, the result would be like college football as the games would ‘become available, just like on Saturday, on over-the-air channels and . . . basic sport cable channels’ and customers would not ‘pay anything extra above what they were already paying for their TV package.’
I find it kind of wild that CFB’s television deals are being held out as some kind of equitable and fair process for getting games on TV. Sunday Ticket sure seems like a scam, but using college football’s system was apparently fatal to their argument. Both experts’ testimonies were tossed.
Gets worse and lol at the last line:
Dr. Rascher’s trial testimony revealed his college football but-for world was not the product of sound economic methodology. Dr. Rascher needed to explain how these out-of-market telecasts would have been available for free to cable and satellite customers in the but-for world. Dr. Rascher did not do so. Instead, he hypothesized there could have been numerous but-for worlds, asserting that regardless of the but-for world’s structure, consumers would not have paid for an additional subscription. He supported his decision to provide multiple variations of a but-for world with the assumption that Defendants and their broadcast partners “are sophisticated entities . . . and they figured it out in college sports, [so] they would certainly figure it out at the NFL.”