[outpostinmass2]

The NCAA is not a court of law.

[MrEdd]

Correct. The NCAA is a work around for.the institutions involved, and its very existence is contingent on proving that they can regulate college sports in lieu of the courts and government over-site.

College sports was NEVER going to be a bunch of schools doing whatever they pleased however they pleased.

If The NCAA failed to address this adequately, the whole tangled ball of twisted yarn threatens to unravel, and control would transfer to government bureaucrats, the courts, and hoards of lawyers with dollar-signs in their eyes.

I suspect Emmert saw what was at stake immediately.