OT: Former UCF lineman suing UCF and Scott Frost's company
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/former-ucf-lineman-jah-reid-suing-alm…
A former UCF lineman is suing UCF and the company Scott Frost helped start to run his camps for using his likeness, both as a student-athlete and as a professional athlete, for marketing. I thought all athletes gave their schools permission to use their likenesses, but that shouldn't extend to the private corporation. It also doesn't seem that it would allow them to use a picture of him in KC Chiefs gear. Mgolawyers?
I wonder what his mom thinks about this!
It will hinge on which legal team out-hits the other.
but she will write a snarky letter comparing this dudes skills to that of her Scotty.
fit into the rules?
That is the real cover
by offering a party sub to him. Mo didn't agree by signing, he just ate it.
More importantly, what does Scott's mom think?
edit: beaten to both of my Scott Frost go-to's.
beaten to it...
Can anyone work an "out-hit" joke into this?
...and he did it quite well.
Not a lawyer, but I think he has a case. I think the amount he's asking for is absurd, and will probably be settled for much lower. The whole thing is strange though.
Colleges use former athletes all the time, and most have no problem with it. Jah just signed a $10 mil contract a year ago before getting benched last year. He was a two star nobody who had zero FBS offers before UCF gave him a chance. I think he's being petty, but that is his right to sue if he feels slighted.
What's even stranger to me is why Scott Frost would use this as marketing. Frost's greatest accomplishment was easily Marcus Mariota, and by all accounts I've seen they are great friends. Why not ask him for permission to promote your camp instead of a middling OT. Jah was gone from UCF for over 6 years before Frost got the HC job. He had no part in his development at all. It's one thing to use alumni like Tom Brady and Woodson, but this guy has been a backup for the majority of his NFL career.
Agree. I'd also assume Frost's insurance company would cover the lawsuit, so it's probably not even personal.
I'm willing to bet the LLC he set up does not have a large amount of insurance coverage.
Infringement of IP is also very commonly excluded (especially if willful).
Most schools use the images of former players because the players are required to sign away likeness rights to the school, the conference, and now the conference network. The NCAA used to require it too until the O'Bannon lawsuit.
On the other hand, they likely did not sign it away to the coach (or the coach's company running the summer camps), so they have some good grounds there. Whether or not UCF did what nearly every other school did on got a waiver remains to be seen, some of the statements the lawyer is making imply that there is not a waiver with UCF.
Yes that's not the real number he'd get, but that's how lawsuits work.
I can see using Jah Reid when you're targeting a specific type of player - Lightly recruited local kid who played at UCF and now is in the NFL. Compare that to Mariota who was from Hawaii, played at Oregon, had more offers from other schools.
This is perfect....my new favorite gif.
What does it say about me as a person that I only clicked on this thread to see if anyone had made a joke about being out hit, and if one was not made to make it myself, only to find that since it's mgoblog it was the first reply. You have to get up pretty early in the morning to out snark mgousers.....
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