O'Bannon Legal Team Reacts to NCAA Decision

[tbook24]

another washed out player trying to get another payday.

[tHurley2010]

Quote: Originally Posted by tbook24

another washed out player trying to get another payday.

I've never understood this sentiment. Did O'Bannon's and Keller's careers not take off like they had imagined? Yes.

But you're also forgetting who else is on that list, names like Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell whose careers certainly weren't washed out.

Like it or not, this case has real standing and it'll be up to the courts decide. I'm no more or less unhappy than you are, but I'm not letting that cloud the fact that this case is legitimate.

[Rekkapryde]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sundown2600

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

your life my entertainment....rediculous.

crazy how some feel that they are entitled to their entertainment no matter what.

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

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.

Depending on the school they choose, they are already compensated between 15k-100k+ a year, over a three to four year span. I still the fact that college football can hardly be considered interscholastic (focusing on the root word scholar) sports, but if they indeed decide to compensate players beyond their already lofty compensation, I'd hope they would just drop the idea that it is the University of Michigan vs Ohio State University.

Make them choose between the scholarship or its monetary equivalent.

[robbel]

Quote: Originally Posted by JLoco11

O'Bannon's legal team will beat the likeness argument in court... I can't imagine how he loses that end of the lawsuit. Where the lawyers are going to fail, is going to be what compensation amateur athletes are entitled to. When you register with the NCAA (in any sport, not just football), you waive your rights of representation on the universities behalf. They can put you on posters, programs, television from games to sports shows, to media guides... and every athlete signs their rights away when they join NCAA division sports. O'Bannon and Keller are going to win the battle of likeliness in a game, but they're going to lose the war against the NCAA for signing their rights away. They're going to lose against a system of amateur rules (as unfair as they may be), going back to old Olympic rules that most governing bodies have adopted.

Ah yes, the 'every document you sign is legally binding' and 'just because that's the way it's always been' arguments. Those will absolutely help the NCAA...

The NCAA has no case here. They bring in almost a billion dollars a year in large part due to student athletes. It's just a matter of time before these athletes receive a cut of EVERYTHING sold that bears their likeness or uniform number, which they should.

[simgamer0005]

Quote: Originally Posted by robbel

Ah yes, the 'every document you sign is legally binding' and 'just because that's the way it's always been' arguments. Those will absolutely help the NCAA... The NCAA has no case here. They bring in almost a billion dollars a year in large part due to student athletes. It's just a matter of time before these athletes receive a cut of EVERYTHING sold that bears their likeness or uniform number, which they should.

Why is it a foregone conclusion that it's just a "matter of time" before college athletes receive a cut of everything? that goes against the idea of what college is supposed to be all about. most of the athletes that participate in college football are getting a free education, and gaining experience that will help them throughout their life. whereas regular college students have to pay to get the same education as the athletes are getting for free. you're basically saying that college football should be a semi-pro league and that's not what it's supposed to be about at all.

[sunless]

Quote: Originally Posted by robbel

They bring in almost a billion dollars a year in large part due to student athletes.

nope

[Beefmaster]

So, if O'Bannon does win, does the ruling go back to his college days? If so, then his amature status will the be revoked from that point right? Then the school could sue him to get any scholarship money back, the NBA/or his former team could sue to get money back because he wasn't an amature when he was drafted. Couldn't this, in turn, come back around to bite him back? I don't know about Oscar Robertson and other professionals at the time, but the ones saying they were amatures could be setting themselves up.