Look, I’m not a lawyer and the bulk of my legal knowledge stems from my Comm Law class at Mizzou (thanks, Sandy Davidson!)...but I can wager a guess this was a pretty bad idea by the NCAA in the O’Bannon trial:
So, an online poll isn’t a study rigorous enough to hold up in court? Got it. Glad the O’Bannon trial cleared that up. Good thing Stephen Colbert didn’t get to the AL.com poll (maybe). Hope the NCAA didn’t have any YouTube comments ready to use as evidence next.
NCAA lawyer shows http://t.co/v2oCfqwdKq survey with headline, “If college athletes were paid, would you lose interest?”
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) June 25, 2014
Judge Wilken ends the http://t.co/v2oCfqwdKq portion of the trial. Results of the survey are not allowed to be shown.
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) June 25, 2014
So, an online poll isn’t a study rigorous enough to hold up in court? Got it. Glad the O’Bannon trial cleared that up. Good thing Stephen Colbert didn’t get to the AL.com poll (maybe). Hope the NCAA didn’t have any YouTube comments ready to use as evidence next.
For the record, the AL.com poll had 1,910 votes, with a majority of responders (36.91 percent) saying they’d stop watching college football if athletes were paid. Thirty-four percent of responders voted that paid athletes wouldn’t stop them from watching college football, though.
