Let’s put the Sixers off to the side for a moment.

Today the Supreme Court smacked the NCAA around with a ruling that sided with a group of former athletes on the topic of compensation.

From ESPN:

The high court ruled that NCAA limits on the education-related benefits that colleges can offer athletes who play Division I basketball and football can’t be enforced.

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Under current NCAA rules, students cannot be paid, and the scholarship money colleges can offer is capped at the cost of attending the school. The NCAA had defended its rules as necessary to preserve the amateur nature of college sports.

But the former athletes who brought the case, including former West Virginia football player Shawne Alston, argued that the NCAA’s rules on education-related compensation were unfair and violate federal antitrust law designed to promote competition.

Always look to a WVU guy to lead the way. Let’s go Mountaineers, let’s go drink some beers. Alston was a beast in the 2012 Orange Bowl.

You know the NCAA is screwed when conservatives and liberals both agree that amateurism is a joke. It may be the one singular thing they’ve actually agreed on in the past 10 years. Even today we have blue checkmarks agreeing with Brett Kavanaugh and sharing the concurrence that he wrote to the case (Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion):

“Those traditions alone cannot justify the NCAA’s decision to build a massive money-raising enterprise on the backs of student athletes who are not fairly compensated.”

Boom, the end. The NCAA got shut out by SCOTUS,  9-0. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh climbed the top rope and then proceeded to deliver a tandem five-star frog splash.