look for more about this in the upcoming weeks, months and years. with 6 current players on the suit the class can now be certified for all current and former NCAA players

(the last class certification hearing was held because the judge told the plaintiffs they needed to have current players in the suit in order to include them in the class)

@edmastermind29 if it gets certified as a class the class could be several thousand student athletes. It certainly has the potential to destroy the NCAA.

btw, NCAA has cancelled it's contract with EA for CFB games

@edmastermind29 there will be a "College Football 15" just not "NCAA College Football 15"

that article from SI illustrates how messed up college sports really are right now. I can't start my own business if I'm a college athlete, I can't write a book in my own name...

@edmastermind29 team names would be made up in an unendorsed game (similar to how in the 90's the MLBPA and MLB endorsed different games)

the suit is all players at this point, team names would be the trademarks/copyright of the colleges

I find it interesting that effectively, if this suit does kill the NCAA, a video game took it down

(the suit covers way more than the game, but that's how O'bannon noticed and got the suit going)

@edmastermind29 the story I've heard (and this is from O'Bannon) is that he was watching his grandkids play the NCAA basketball game and they unlocked the "UCLA legends team" or some such, and he saw his likeness, name not attached, but his face, his game, etc and realized that he'd been had

@edmastermind29 no

@edmastermind29 yeah, this suit was inevitable (as is a suit on the NFL and NBA's age restrictions, can't wait for that one), but that's how we got here

@edmastermind29 it's ageism in a sense. And there isn't much legal footing for denying employment to a group of young men just because of their age.

it's the kind of thing that doesn't come up much but is occasionally hinted at in the media (specially with rabble rousers like Jeff Passan).

yeah, anyways, when sports and the courts mix the results are rarely pleasant by always interesting.

Part of the intrigue is that these are organizations that are exempted from anti-trust regulation by congress and have special and odd legal standing anyways. Which means any time you get into a lawsuit the possibility of the entire league collapsing if the judge makes a sweeping ruling is actually a possibility

But because collapse is in no ones best interest, at least on the pro side, generally things are argued and decided on very narrow lines

lol

@edmastermind29 lol, that's been on my TV every night this week #parentofpreschoolerproblems

@edmastermind29 no it's kinda terrible, but at the same time, it's really fun

@edmastermind29 nope

btw the steriods subtext in spacejam is really actually quite interesting to me. I don't think they would be able to do that in a kids movie anymore

> Is he on the roster? No. Basically, the former Ghostbuster just found a jersey, wandered onto the court, and was allowed to play. Does anyone care about the heritage and respect of the game? NBA Jam had more rules than this.

@edmastermind29 lol