Recruiting Football Talk VII

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LakesiteVol said:
Not to bring the excitement down, but if y'all could keep my family in your prayers I would appreciate it. Our beloved dog crossed the rainbow bridge a short time ago. She was a great dog.
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😞, dogs are truly part of our families. I’m so sorry. I still miss my Daisy from ten years ago. She was my best friend and my protector.
 
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WesTnVol said:
Could I tag a long with question? I noticed this lawsuit(House) covers athletes back to 2016. What’s to prevent another/different lawsuit going back to 2006 or farther. I mean why stop at that particular year?
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Good question. That was the plaintiff's demand in the House v NCAA case.
The NCAA and its five co-defendants (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and the soon-disbanding Pac-12) in the House v. NCAA case all voted to avoid going to trial and are moving forward with a settlement and the signing of term sheets that will require two gargantuan commitments: nearly $2.8 billion worth of back pay over the next decade to more than 15,000 former college athletes who did not receive name, image and likeness benefits between 2016-21; plus a signed pledge to invest millions of dollars annually at the power-conference level for the next 10 years to continue to pay college athletes, no matter what sport they play or how accomplished they are.
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Two of three of the cases were bundled together in this proposed settlement, iirc. It still has to be approved by a judge. But that doesn't mean there won't be further lawsuits, as you suggest. The NCAA is still claiming they are too big to fail and asking for a government bail out, in terms of exclusion from American law. Antitrust law, in this case. I wouldn't be surprised if they want money too. This long propaganda campaign they have run for over a year to get fans upset and demanding the "something has to be done" is part of their effort.

Why "something has to be done!"? Because the plaintiff's are going after the NCAA's gigantic checkbook. In other words, the NCAA is still lying when they say they are wringing their hands over the purity of an amateur game. They want to keep the money they made in their basketball tournament. So they are teaching the "little people" to repeat slogans about amateurism.
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It's worth noting that it wasn't football that initiated this colossal change. The plaintiffs were a womens basketball player and a mens swimmer.

The CFP already took the football playoffs out of NCAA control. The money primarily from the gigantic NCAA basketball tournament cash cow is what the plaintiffs were going after, in effect.

Basketball should have left the NCAA too. It's complicated because of all the small schools that are involved -- for the reason that the smaller schools have been profiteering while excluding their athletes all along but are now playing the victim card. They are the reason the tourney has now expanded to 68 teams and the media rights have been astronomical.

I don't see that the smaller schools have anything to complain about. They are not expected to compete against the biggest powers. Start their own tournament.
 
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