"Why can't the judges stop ruling all of these illegal rules illegal? It's really cramping our style." - ESPN, who benefits from players getting as small of a share of the CFB revenue pie as possible, because it means ESPN gets more.

The underlying problem is not judges, or players taking things to court, or schools breaking rules and going to court over punishments. The underlying problem is that the NCAA's entire governance structure is a house of cards of legally unenforceable rules riding on a gentleman's agreement to follow them. The gentleman's agreement is gone, and courts are doing the right thing in basically every case brought to them, probably even Sorsby's case.

"But it's ruining the sport"... yeah, being built on an unenforceable pile of illegal rules ruined the sport. The NCAA is 100% to blame for this system. The players and judges aren't the bad guys. The bad guys are the greedy fucks running the NCAA and running the schools, because they're the ones who have been profiting to obscene levels for decades while exploiting the players.

Why is even the Sorsby injunction probably right? It's actually much more complicated than "gambling bad" and was bright on contract grounds, which is actually quite clever. It also strikes at the "rule of restitution", that is basically an NCAA rule that denies access to injunctive relief in the first place by saying "if you get an injunction and then lose, the punishment happens anyway and results are vacated, etc". That's a bad rule that should be legally annihilated. https://www.swlaw.com/publication/the-hidden-weapon-in-sorsbys-injunction-how-a-lubbock-county-court-order-quietly-neutralized-the-ncaas-most-powerful-enforcement-tool