Meet the man who thinks he ‘screwed up’ college football

When a century-old collegiate sports league faces elimination and athletes prepared for significant cross-country trips.

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The lawyer who is probably responsible for these severe changes says he is not thrilled.

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Andrew Coats, the lawyer whose urged the United States Supreme Court in 1984 to enable university to optimise football earnings, ending in a TV-driven money grab.

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Today's broad change makes him hate the landmark case that he properly argued.

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"I suppose I ruined up college football across the board, since I believe the case did it," Coats told recently, commenting on his role in NCAA v. Board of Governors of the University of Oklahoma.

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American's supreme court decided on behalf of Coats' clients, finding that the governing organisation of college sports could not prohibit schools' and leagues' commerce rights.

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That once-stable business of college football has recently turned into a near-constant trade meet in which universities frequently change league membership in search of better television contracts.

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As a result of this, the Pac-12, it has been around for 108 years, will be limited to four colleges and may be terminated outright.

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