O'Bannon settles with EA and CLC in class action
O'Bannon settled with Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licensing Company today. The only defendent left in the lawsuit now is the NCAA.
An interesting read from SI analyzing where the lawsuit goes from here. The O'Bannon class action could go after broadcasters next. One item I didn't know is the schools not represented by the CLC will probably try to push for the NCAA to settle as they will be more exposed in the lawsuit. Those schools include Ohio State and Michigan State. Not sure how that works but maybe someone here with a law background can break it down.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130926/mccann-obannon-ea-clc-settlement/
September 27th, 2013 at 12:53 PM ^
What rules and laws are there in place that you cannot achieve your bosses status right now?
Who are you to say that they haven't earned the right to make that money? Most of these guys have been working at their craft since they were 10 years od. They bust their butts harder than you and I ever will. Why should they have to pay their scholarship back. Does Manning have to give back part of his salary for everything he earns off commercials? It's a stupid notion.
Your rhetoric seems to indicate to me that you tend to lean a little right of center, no? Why are you so against letting the market decide if these players are worth more than what they're worth?
September 27th, 2013 at 2:08 PM ^
I already said they could earn pay in another thread. My idea is to offer them a deal when they sign the letter of intent. They can accept endorsements and pay there own way and keep in good academic standing, or take the scholly and no endorsement and any acceptance of endorsement after ustilizing a scholly would need to be paid back and any other future enrollment must be paid by the student athlete. This is where its headed.
September 27th, 2013 at 2:14 PM ^
How do you figure they bust their butts harder than we do? Speak for yourself. How about the military who bust their ass to defend this country? How about the effort I put in on a daily basis for a company that has already this year alone profited over 1 billion dollars? Many people bust their ass to make it happen. I will agree they work hard, but that is life. I keep saying this. Why should they have it any easier? because they play football? 99% don’t play beyond college. Its recreation to many of them in the first place. So many players go to Michigan to just dawn the winged helmet and live to tell about it. Not everyone is about the money. These kids need more big picture, but we live in a now, now society harbored by those who raised the children this way and commercialization
September 28th, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
They're not asking for a handout. Just don't punish them for doing what most others are allowed to do. Look man, you can sit there and talk about integrity and seeing the bigger picture and all this pie in the sky crap, but that's not really going to mean shit to DJ Fluker who lived in a car with his family after Katrina. I applaud him for taking whatever money he did and I think he'd have been a dumbass not to.
September 27th, 2013 at 2:39 PM ^
There are no current rules or laws that say you cannot acheive to the same level of your boss' status right now.
The current market is dictating what these players are worth - the price of a scholarship, that's it.
Now, the market may change at some point, then there may be laws in place which will limit what these players are worth - Title IX. I believe you will have to match every dollar spent on a male athlete with an equal dollar spent on female athletes.
According to this article http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6769337/title-ix-seen-substantial-roadblock-pay-play-college-athletics from ESPN:
"Title IX guarantees gender equality in athletic opportunities. The courts have now developed, through years of case law, what that entails. It is very well established case law where the courts have said the opportunities have to be equal in all respects. It includes the accommodations and conditions around those opportunities."