Karen Weaver, an expert in college athletics administration, is available for comment.
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"The court has handed universities a gift, if they choose to accept it. This ruling is a huge wake-up call for every level of higher education to embrace the 21st century and not treat athletes differently than any other student on campus.
"In that way, it opens a path for universities to leverage one of their greatest overlooked strengths — a lifelong educational relationship with their athlete populations. But if the college leaders who make up the NCAA continue to deny reality, I am sure the other student-athlete legal cases in the pipeline will benefit from this unanimous ruling by the Court."
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