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From the Dave Reynolds article in the 3/21 PJS, Rick Giles of the Gazelle group states:
"We're battling the NIT for teams and the NCAA lawyers were threatening us, saying, 'Don't take our teams."
What legal footing does the NCAA have to threaten an independent organization who would like to hold a post season basketball tournament?
Tell me if I am wrong but there is no "reserve clause" in college basketball preventing competition. Historically there have been non NCAA tournaments (Commissioner's Classic, National Campus Tournament and obviously the NIT).
It seems odd to me that the NCAA would resort to legal threats against the organization holding a "third tier" tournament that no one cares about anyway.
"We're battling the NIT for teams and the NCAA lawyers were threatening us, saying, 'Don't take our teams."
What legal footing does the NCAA have to threaten an independent organization who would like to hold a post season basketball tournament?
Tell me if I am wrong but there is no "reserve clause" in college basketball preventing competition. Historically there have been non NCAA tournaments (Commissioner's Classic, National Campus Tournament and obviously the NIT).
It seems odd to me that the NCAA would resort to legal threats against the organization holding a "third tier" tournament that no one cares about anyway.
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