My Christmas Gift to 100 Nashville-area Lawyers: Two Free Hours of CLE Credit on Conference Realignment

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Few things in the legal profession are more awful than accumulating your 15 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) hours. If you’re anything like me — and tons of y’all are — you wait until after Christmas and then find yourself scrambling to find 15 hours somewhere. Last year I found myself paying an ungodly amount to sit in front of a monitor at the Tennessee Bar Association for eight hours of tutorials. Inevitably these classes are incredibly boring and leave you wanting to scratch your eyeballs out.

That’s why soon Outkick the Coverage is getting in to the CLE business. Come the spring I’ll be traveling across the Southeast — and potentially other locations if there is a demand — delivering hopefully entertaining talks on sports, media, and the law. I’m not promising that these talks are going to be the equivalent of a great movie — or even a bad movie — but I am promising that they’ll be much more entertaining than current  CLEs. 

They’ll also be comparatively cheap. 

And to kick it all off you lazy Nashville area lawyers get the first crack at one of my CLEs.

And this one is completely free.

But we can only accomodate 100 of you total so you have to go here and RSVP.

(You need to thank Counsel on Call too).

Here are the details:

It’s from 6:30-8:30 at the Hutton Hotel, 1808 West End Avenue, in downtown Nashville in Vista Ballroom C.

And here is what I’ll be talking about:

Prior to 1984, the NCAA restricted the number of televised football games, therefore, committing an anti-trust violation. Once this restriction was lifted, money poured into college sports effectively setting the stage for massive conference realignment. The case NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma will be used as the launching off point for a discussion as to how college athletics has become a big business since then. The discussion also will include the following:
  • How ESPN’s television contracts have driven up the value of college athletic events but also caused tremendous legal conflicts.
  • The complexities of conference bylaws in the modern era utilizing the Big 12 bylaws in particular
  • Analyzing the legal obstacles and ethical issues for Missouri and Texas A&M to join the Southeastern Conference.

Written by Clay Travis

Clay Travis is the founder of the fastest growing national multimedia platform, OutKick, that produces and distributes engaging content across sports and pop culture to millions of fans across the country. OutKick was created by Travis in 2011 and sold to the Fox Corporation in 2021.

One of the most electrifying and outspoken personalities in the industry, Travis hosts OutKick The Show where he provides his unfiltered opinion on the most compelling headlines throughout sports, culture, and politics. He also makes regular appearances on FOX News Media as a contributor providing analysis on a variety of subjects ranging from sports news to the cultural landscape. Throughout the college football season, Travis is on Big Noon Kickoff for Fox Sports breaking down the game and the latest storylines.

Additionally, Travis serves as a co-host of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, a three-hour conservative radio talk program syndicated across Premiere Networks radio stations nationwide.

Previously, he launched OutKick The Coverage on Fox Sports Radio that included interviews and listener interactions and was on Fox Sports Bet for four years. Additionally, Travis started an iHeartRadio Original Podcast called Wins & Losses that featured in-depth conversations with the biggest names in sports.

Travis is a graduate of George Washington University as well as Vanderbilt Law School. Based in Nashville, he is the author of Dixieland Delight, On Rocky Top, and Republicans Buy Sneakers Too.