This Could It For The NCAA - $4.2 Billion NIL Lawsuit For Back Pay

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Potential $4.2 Billion Lawsuit For NIL Back Pay Could End The NCAA ... But Then What?

Imagine the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis with a For Lease sign. Name, Image & Likeness, in the end, could be the death knell of the NCAA
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Those student-athletes who missed some or all of the NIL money want their money, too, in back pay. In an antitrust lawsuit, three of them sued the NCAA in 2020 for their NIL back pay along with a piece of the lucrative television pie to the tune of $1.4 billion. The back pay is limited to 2016 going forward because of antitrust statute of limitations laws.

The three suing the NCAA are Arizona State swimmer Grant House, former Illinois football player Tymir Oliver, and current TCU women’s basketball player Sedona Prince. She played at Texas in 2021 and Oregon in 2022. The trio also requested class certification in the lawsuit for the coveted class action lawsuit status, which gives the plaintiffs a better chance at winning and a larger overall prize.

Well, as many as 15,000 student-athletes across the land could now join the above three. This is because federal judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California on Friday granted class action status in the damages portion of the antitrust lawsuit.

The NCAA had been trying to settle with Wilken, but didn’t like the asking price. So, now, if the NCAA loses the case, an estimated 15,000 mostly former student-athletes could be eligible to receive damages from the NCAA. The trial date is set for January of 2025, if not sooner.


If the NCAA loses then they will have no choice but to declare bankruptcy and it's doubtful they would be able to survive it. There is little doubt in my mind the lawyers know exactly where to file this case to get the most progressive judges they can find. It just doesn't look good for them.
 
Na too much money at stake, this will go away.
 
Excellent. Just in time for another lawsuit....
 
Careful what you wish for...the NCAA is like Saddam Hussein; sure he sucks, but once you take him out, who or what replaces him?
 
Hu War Yu said:
Careful what you wish for...the NCAA is like Saddam Hussein; sure he sucks, but once you take him out, who or what replaces him?
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College football just needs conference commissioners.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Jeeze, as if the competitive imbalance isn't bad enough already
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The NCAA is pretty well powerless when it comes to football anyways. If a program gets in trouble, all they have to do is lie and not cooperate and nothing will happen to them. The only thing they ever really do is remind people they exist by declining a player’s transfer waiver, and even then, they cave if the head coach says mean things about them.

The NCAA isn’t mentioned anywhere on the natty trophy.

Obsolete things need to die
 
SoonerC said:
Na too much money at stake, this will go away.
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If they get a judgement for 4.2 billion that is their entire budget for the next 4 years.

They literally don’t have an ability to make up the difference so in a lot ways there is too much money at stake that if they lose they don’t survive.
 
Also, I’m not even sure they can afford to settle because every athlete that has played a sport under the NCAA since 2016 would have a claim to lost NIL and who knows what the number would be 4.2 billion I guess.
 
Tomhusker said:
A swimmer?
Seriously, just give the guy a C note and call it good. That's probably 80 bucks more than he would have earned.
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That's what I was thinking. How many athletes actually produce revenue for their schools? Even when they play a revenue sport, some players ride the pine for four years. Should they get the same as a four-year starter? How do you even begin to determine individual values like that?
 
Hu War Yu said:
That's what I was thinking. How many athletes actually produce revenue for their schools? Even when they play a revenue sport, some players ride the pine for four years. Should they get the same as a four-year starter? How do you even begin to determine individual values like that?
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"Screw you pay me" - California Tech men's synchronized swimming team
 
We can only hope.

The Michigan situation could give it a little nudge, the James Madison situation (worst one ATM imho) could also..

Just shove em off the cliff alrwady. I mean which one is ran worse, the NCAA or the PAC?
 
Good...NCAA is an outdated useless organization
 
Um, if nobody knows who they are, how can they profit from their image? Nobody is paying me to be me, so this is stupid
 
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