Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
If it's this simple, why does any team accept no for an answer from the ncaa?
Because you have to get a judge to rule in your favor, and usually there's very little evidence to get that.
The ncaa should win this with a neutral judge, but that is not the case here.

Also, can only go to federal court if there is a federal law claim (there is not here) or the parties "reside" in different states (they don't here because the ncaa is said to reside wherever its members are, which is in all 50 states). But with no federal law antitrust claim, PL argument is harder to make here. They are banking on a OM fan as the judge.

More of these are being filed in state courts because PL lawyers know they are more likely to get less sophisticated judges who have allegiance to the teams than if filed in federal court. That is the case here. Trinidad's actual claim sucks, but he has a judge who is a fan.