Thanks, That's what I was looking for. I knew that Cavanaugh's opinion was just his opinion and probably should have made that clearer. But there doesn't seem to have been any dissent from SCOTUS, indeed anything in the ruling that would give the NCAA hope of prevailing in any future legal actions.
As others have noted, this has been coming down the tracks for a long time. Maybe there was a window in which the NCAA could have led a discussion that would have led to legislation that would have benefitted all the stakeholders. But they dug their heels in and delayed and delayed and delayed some more. Now, if I may mix my metaphors, I believe that ship has sailed. Congress has punted, the NCAA seems to have given up and I fear that leaving it up to state legislatures is going to lead to a race to the bottom.
Maybe Duke ends up somewhere like Georgetown or Villanova, a nationally-competitive basketball program and a much lower profile football program. Or maybe not.
It seems like we're going into a very dark and long tunnel. A Garden of Eden might await us on the other end. But I have no idea how we get there.