O'Bannon Legal Team Reacts to NCAA Decision

[BA2929]

Quote: Originally Posted by satchmykels

Yeah, but who's this Grishman character you mentioned? "My law knowledge comes mainly from John Grishman books."

LOL. You sly dog.
I must have had John Goodman on my mind. He writes a mean book.

[tHurley2010]

Quote: Originally Posted by goalieump413

This, of course, has been an increasingly popular discussion across the country. Should student athletes get paid to play (football)? The answer, I think, lies in the scale to which college football has become such a powerfully profitable enterprise. Think about it, EA Sports sells an NCAA football game because college football is huge. They don't sell a college baseball game because college baseball isn't huge. It comes down to market demand. This lawsuit is more a catalyst to changing the landscape of money in college athletics than the largely academic debate that's been ongoing. Former players think that they should profit from video game sales, but that only kicks down the door to any other sale of merchandise related to their college playing career. Watch out.

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[Computalover]

If they win the case, whats to stop each individual schools from suing the athletes for the "payments" already made to them? i.e. scholarships, room and board, training costs, uniforms and clothing, books.. travel etc etc. some schools can be upwards of 100k plus.. if you win the battle, and you claiming to want compensation.. wouldnt that compensation be reduced by the payments already given? and they did sign the deal didnt they? its in the contract to use their likeness by the college, and the governing body.. NCAA..

[Perfect Zero]

I am not an expert on contract law, but I would think that a case for the players being extorted through the NCAA might work. It's not like the kids have another choice (the CFL really isn't a choice when it comes to experience and playing time).

This is why the whole question of another effort from EA is far from closed. Are the universities willing to allow these lawsuits to continue? Right now it's the NCAA, but the next step is the universities themselves. It's better to close off the gap now than to let the problems continue. I want the series to continue especially since this is the best CFB game that I've ever played. However, these cases and the results from the shrapnel are not doing EA any favors.

[superxero27]

"Ducking their responsibilities"?

Well, what did they THINK the large software company was going to do??

[MacDiiddy]

The only thing I really care about, outside of the presence of a college football game is

if now 2k or some other company can jump on in and make their version as well. IDK if this is even a possibility or if EA is going to make the conferences and award committees sign exclusivity deals with them, I hope not.

[lord_mike]

Quote: Originally Posted by MacDiiddy

The only thing I really care about, outside of the presence of a college football game is if now 2k or some other company can jump on in and make their version as well. IDK if this is even a possibility or if EA is going to make the conferences and award committees sign exclusivity deals with them, I hope not.

Exclusivity has been banned due to a recent Supreme Court case. Whether 2K Sports would risk it is the question. The whole "player thing" is unresolved. If they don't pay the players and the NCAA loses, then they could be screwed, but they can't go out and preemptively pay the players in the meantime, either. I can't see any way forward but for the gaming companies to simply have teams of fake players (even if it is still called Ohio State) until this is all resolved.

[Sundown2600]

Lol at the ppl mad at O'Bannon. Ya'll are funny man