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If you read my pieces on Forbes.com about SEC, Big Ten, ACC , Pac-10 and Big 12 football finance, you may be interested in seeing the charts I compiled on each conference. You can download below.

SEC Financial Data (Excel)   SEC Financial Data (PDF)

Big Ten Financial Data (Excel)   Big Ten Financial Data (PDF)

ACC Financial Data (Excel)

Pac-10-Financial-Data (Excel)

Big 12 Financial Data (Excel)

Big East Financial Data (Excel)

Big thanks to my intern, Ben Perreira, who helped compile the ACC, Pac-10, Big 12 and Big East data!

Kristi will be speaking on NCAA conference realignment this Friday, March 25th, at Harvard Law School.  You can see all the details of the Harvard Sports Law Symposium here. Registration is free, so if you live in Boston, plan to attend!

Here’s a sneak peak at Kristi’s panel:

PANEL #2 – CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT PANEL

Over the past year, the landscape of college athletics has been dramatically altered with the movement of numerous teams to new conferences, including Nebraska to the Big 10, Colorado and Utah to the Pacific 10, Boise State to the Mountain West, and Brigham Young to independent status.  This raises issues about amateurism and the role of the NCAA in either facilitating or impeding conference realignment. This panel will explore legal and ethical issues related to amateurism and the role of the NCAA in conference realignment.

• TIME: 10:50am-12:00pm
• PANELISTS: Greg Byrne (Athletics Director, University of Arizona), Kristi Dosh (Taylor English Duma LLP and Forbes.com), Patti Ohlendorf (VP of Legal Affairs for the University of Texas at Austin), Patrick Rishe (Webster University and Forbes.com), Jason Russell (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom), Glenn Wong (UMass Isenberg School of Management)

If you read my pieces on Forbes.com about SEC, Big Ten, ACC , Pac-10 and Big 12 football finance, you may be interested in seeing the charts I compiled on each conference. You can download below.

SEC Financial Data (Excel)   SEC Financial Data (PDF)

Big Ten Financial Data (Excel)   Big Ten Financial Data (PDF)

ACC Financial Data (Excel)

Pac-10-Financial-Data (Excel)

Big 12 Financial Data (coming soon!)

Big thanks to my intern, Ben Perreira, who helped compile the ACC, Pac-10 and Big 12 data!

Here’s the full NFL Antitrust Suit, if you’re interested. I’ll have a piece on Forbes hopefully today explaining it further.

By now you’ve probably heard the NFL Players Association has filed to decertify, meaning there will no longer be a players association. However, if you read my piece here last week on the possible scenarios going forward, you know it does not mean there will be no football.

Unless another extension was reached today, the NFLPA had to file a petition to decertify by 5:00 p.m. in order to be able to immediately file an antitrust lawsuit if the NFL institutes a lockout. According to the recently-expired CBA, if the NFLPA waited until after the expiration to decertify, they would have to wait six months to institute an antitrust lawsuit (the real reason for decertifying). Although the CBA is no longer governing league activity, the sides agreed when they negotiated the last CBA that some provisions, like the one just mentioned, would survive expiration.

So what does decertification really mean? It simply means there is no longer a players association. The NFLPA decertified in 1989 in order to bring an antitrust case and did not reform again until 1993. For those who were around back then, you know that decertification for that period did not mean there was no football being played.

If the NFL does not lock the players out, they can institute their “last and best offer.” This is where the NFL owners would unilaterally implement the last offer they gave the players association before reaching an impasse. Football would be played while the NFL and NFLPA battled out an antitrust case in court.

Don’t think that the players did this lightly. Without a players association to collectively bargain, the players will lose all their collectively bargained rights such as medical insurance and their pension. Group licensing rights the NFLPA controlled are also now up in the air.

Obviously the players are feeling emboldened by Judge Doty’s decision on the “lockout clauses” in the league’s television contracts. They must feel pretty strongly that they can make a solid case in court in order to make this move. I can’t say I disagree with them.

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This article offers the personal observations of Kristi Dosh, and does not represent the views of her law firm or its clients. Any information contained herein does not constitute legal advice. Consult your own attorney for legal advice on these matters.