NCAA suffers latest blow with revealing emails introduced as evidence

Without Plonsky's appearance on Thursday, Wilken and the other federal judges who will pick up the case after she rules might never have known all those

Andy Staples | Jun 17, 2014

NCAA suffers latest blow with revealing emails introduced as evidence /

Emails involving Texas women's athletic director Chris Plonsky may prove critical in O'Bannon v. NCAA. — Emails involving Texas women's athletic director Chris Plonsky may prove critical in O'Bannon v. NCAA :: Donald Trail/AP

Without Plonsky's appearance on Thursday, Wilken and the other federal judges who will pick up the case after she rules might never have known all those discussions took place. Thanks to the NCAA legal team's decision to call Plonsky, they will. And they'll probably wonder why everyone seemed so darn worried about an allegedly nonexistent market.

Published Jun 17, 2014

ANDY STAPLES

Senior writer Andy Staples has covered college football for SI since 2008, developing an encyclopedic index of the best food in every college town along the way.