Andy Schwarz's posts

In last month’s antitrust case in Oakland challenging the artificial caps on athlete compensation, the NCAA’s…

Few things get me as angry as seeing people oppose a reform because of unrealistic concerns about imaginary…

Of course it makes sense for the NCAA and its major college football conferences to oppose having their athletes…

Contrary to popular belief, the NCAA has only ever truly enforced a nationwide prohibition on payments to athletes…

It’s pretty common to hear that Title IX creates a huge financial burden on colleges such that even if a school is…

Over the next week, a relatively unheralded team from a small conference will probably defeat a blue blood program…

The world of college sports reform can be divided into three camps. The first is the NCAA itself, which seems to…

The day before yesterday, if a school reached the Final Four or the College Football Playoff and anyone—the NCAA,…

Recently, I've been reading about Michigan's attendance woes (which only really count as "woes" if you consider a…

I'm already starting to see rumblings out there that the recent ruling by Judge Claudia Wilken (of which I present a…

Let me start by apologizing. Because of my own involvement in the Ed O'Bannon case, and because of past situations…

There will be no new release of an EA NCAA Football game this year. The man most frequently blamed for this is a…

Bob Bowlsby is a man with a very influential job. He is the commissioner of the Big 12 conference, one of the…

High on the list of myths thrown out as excuses to delay or prevent the advent of pay-for-play is that the…

Paula Lavigne has an insightful piece on ESPN.com about how college sports thrived even as the rest of America…

From a piece on the Iowa and Iowa State ADs' opposition to athlete unionization comes this doozy from Iowa's Gary…

Originally published on Sportsgeekonomics.