BATON ROUGE — The SEC’s decision to ban former professional athletes from returning to college athletics has sparked a legal debate that is now playing out in courts across the country.
Attorney David Fleshman, with the Breazeale Sachse Law Firm, said the situation comes down to a fundamental question about who gets to make the rules in college athletics.
“You’re currently seeing a tug of war in college sports between the NCAA, between the conferences, between players and schools,” Fleshman said. “It is happening in real time. It is happening very fast, and it’s a moving target.”…