You've got to be kidding me!!

[ShotgunDawg]

Stewart Mandel ‏@slmandel 5m
Per ESPN, the EA Sports settlement is for $40 million, split between 200-300,000 players. $133.33 for all.

So.... everyone in America doesn't get to have a college football video game so that the plaintiffs could make $133.33?

Wow..... I HOPE THAT WAS WORTH IT! Total BS

[msstate7]

The lawyer(s) might have made a little more than that ***

[RC3]

The lawyer(s) might have made a little more than that ***

probably at least 12 million for the lawyers

[Political Hack]

that's what EA paid, but what's going to happen to the NCAA? will this help future players? Protect their financial interests? that's the bigger question to me.

[MadDawg]

The only folks that make money in class action lawsuits are the lawyers.

[smootness]

This is what will happen overall if players start getting paid on some level. After the schools take their cut and you worry about Title IX, and then you spread out the money among all the players, it will be very little of anything anyway. And it might mean fewer scholarships since the schools are now not making as much. And it will definitely mean that other sports suffer.

[Jack Lambert]

This whole thing was silly from the start. This country was going was down but since 2009 it has really gone to the crapper real fast.

[Political Hack]

This is what will happen overall if players start getting paid on some level. After the schools take their cut and you worry about Title IX, and then you spread out the money among all the players, it will be very little of anything anyway. And it might mean fewer scholarships since the schools are now not making as much. And it will definitely mean that other sports suffer.

this isn't communism. It's a free market economy. Bo Wallace isnt worth what Johnny football is. each player should get royalties from the use of their person for sales. Put it in an account and make it a stipulation that the player has to graduate to receive the benefit. if they don't graduate within a certain timeframe, then you split those royalties between the players on that team that did graduate. If they sell 1M #2 jerseys, it's a hell of an incentive for mid-round draft picks to stay, get an education, collect their check from the school, and then become a professional.

There's a million ways to operationalize this but people are against it because "it won't matter anyway" or "it's still not enough", but it at least it's fair and would depend on the market.

[archdog]

The only folks that make money in class action lawsuits are the lawyers.

Dickey Scruggs says shut your mouth.

[HereComesTheSpiral]

Dickey Scruggs says shut your mouth.

And the judge said is that it

[hacker]

this isn't communism. It's a free market economy. Bo Wallace isnt worth what Johnny football is. each player should get royalties from the use of their person for sales. Put it in an account and make it a stipulation that the player has to graduate to receive the benefit. if they don't graduate within a certain timeframe, then you split those royalties between the players on that team that did graduate. If they sell 1M #2 jerseys, it's a hell of an incentive for mid-round draft picks to stay, get an education, collect their check from the school, and then become a professional.

There's a million ways to operationalize this but people are against it because "it won't matter anyway" or "it's still not enough", but it at least it's fair and would depend on the market.

good call. I don't get the people who say there's not any money for the players. Besides the fact that lots of players are getting paid under the table NOW, there's a shitload of other ways to pay them.