(04-08-2013 01:03 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(04-05-2013 01:20 PM)giesing Wrote:  In my eyes, it is some kind of a monopoly and someone is shut out of the "FBS-Business", because of their religious belief.

Monopolies are held over industries not companies. So long as the NAIA is there then nobody can say "The NCAA has a monopoly"..

Yet the existence of the Mac and Apple's OS, with Linux also set forward by Microsoft was not sufficient for them to win the argument, and they were ruled a monopoly. In that kind of anti-trust action, a key question is determining the relevant market, and it would be very hard to maintain that the market that the Access Bowl schools are in and the market that the NAIA is in are substantially the same market.

Quote: Who has moved up that was less deserving than Liberty?

This is a lot more to the point. Liberty would have to show that they would be allowed to upgrade under a reasonable standard and have been denied an upgrade because of the standard applied was unreasonable.

And its hard to find a general standard that would be widely accepted as reasonable under which they "ought to be" next in line.