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91 Tul. L. Rev. 595 (2016-2017)

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  For  the  Love of the Frame: How Behavioral
  Economics Helps Explain the NCAA Grant-
  in-Aid Cap's Perplexing Antitrust Vitality

                     W   Fritz Metzinger*

I.   INTRODUCTION.       ............................... ...... 596
II.  SHERMAN  ACT  SECTION 1......................599
III. THE NCAA   AS A PRICE-FIXING MONOPSONY      .   ..............600
IV.  BEHAVIORAL  ECONOMICS  AND  THE NCAA  .....................603
     A.   The Relevant Behavioral Economic  Theory................604
     B.   The Long Frame  Job......         .................608
     C.   The Two  Fallacies..........................611
          1.  Fallacy 1: Allowing Unfettered Player
              Compensation  Would Fundamentally Destroy
              College Athletics.......................611
          2.  Fallacy 2: Scholarship Athletes Are Not Being
              Paid     ................. .............. 612
V.   BIAS IN NCAA  ANTITRUST  LAW........      ..................613
     A.   Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
          v. NCAA        ...............................613
     B.   The Post-Board of Regents Years....    ...............615
     C    O'Bannon  v. NCAA..      ..............................618
          1.  District Court Decision ....................619
          2.  Ninth Circuit Decision .....................621
VI.  SHEDDING  THE BIAS         ....................................622
     A.   Allowing  Unfettered Player Compensation
          Would  Not Fundamentally  Destroy College
          Athletics       ..........................    .....623
     B.   Scholarships Are a Form ofPayment      ...  ...........623

     *  C 2017 W. Fritz Metzinger. J.D. candidate 2017, Tulane University Law School;
B.A. 2013, University of Virginia. I would like to thank the peerless staff of the Tulane Law
Review-in particular Sheridan DuPont, Jennifer Leaphart, Sarah Smith-Clevenger, Collin
Buisson, and William Anderson-for undertaking the daunting task of rendering this
Comment presentable. I am also indebted to Professor Gabe Feldman and Andy Schwarz for
their invaluable comments and inspiration. This Comment is dedicated to Dr. Ann MeMe
Metzinger, a perfect grandma, a longtime Tulane athletics supporter, and the finest scholar
the Metzinger family will ever know.


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