EA Settles NCAA Student-Athlete Cases, No Game Next Year

The NCAA kids are just sport-loving amateurs...why do they care if their image gets used by anyone with or without compensation?

*nudge nudge.
 
Skripka said:
The NCAA kids are just sport-loving amateurs...why do they care if their image gets used by anyone with or without compensation?

*nudge nudge.
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Yeah... it's not like EA is making millions out of it, right?
I am sure it's covered under the fair use act.
 
It's only fair to use if you have a healthy number of lawyers on your payroll.
 
aShrubbery! said:
Yeah... it's not like EA is making millions out of it, right?
I am sure it's covered under the fair use act.
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So what if EA is making millions or billions or trillions? That is absolutely 100% immaterial.

These kids all sign a deal with NCAA giving away any and all rights to their (collegiate) name and image including compensation for the aforsesaid. EA will do what any company will do here, which is rake in profit or sweep dirt under the rug. In this case, EA has decided the kids are more trouble than they are worth. Sucks to be them.

The devil in this case is not EA, it is the NCAA. Which is blatantly apparent if you've read up on the history of the NCAA.
 
Skripka said:
These kids all sign a deal with NCAA giving away any and all rights to their (collegiate) name and image including compensation for the aforsesaid.
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Do they? If they did in fact do that why is there even a lawsuit going on?

Granted I never was an athlete in college, but I didn't think they signed away all their rights just for the "privilege" of playing sports for a school.
 
They do sign agreements with the NCAA about their image. This is nothing but a cheap way to try and get some cash out of EA. Which is pathetic
 
VladDracule said:
They do sign agreements with the NCAA about their image. This is nothing but a cheap way to try and get some cash out of EA. Which is pathetic
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Like how its OK for a kid to eat a bagel, but he can lose his scholarship and the college fined if the bagel has cream cheese on it.
Or if a kid's family member or friend dies, its inappropriate for him to accept money or a plane ticket for the trip home from anyone but the college he attends. That's right, your dad dies, you can lose your scholarship if mom Western Unions you the cash to get home and it wasn't cleared with the NCAA beforehand.
The NCAA exists to provide a tax exempt way for universities to make millions each year off of kids who gain no salaries for their year round training and games played.
Grant it, they do get scholarships, so they get paid in an education, but the way the kids are treated would be a sham.
 
SGA76 said:
Like how its OK for a kid to eat a bagel, but he can lose his scholarship and the college fined if the bagel has cream cheese on it.
Or if a kid's family member or friend dies, its inappropriate for him to accept money or a plane ticket for the trip home from anyone but the college he attends. That's right, your dad dies, you can lose your scholarship if mom Western Unions you the cash to get home and it wasn't cleared with the NCAA beforehand.
The NCAA exists to provide a tax exempt way for universities to make millions each year off of kids who gain no salaries for their year round training and games played.
Grant it, they do get scholarships, so they get paid in an education, but the way the kids are treated would be a sham.
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You got the red part wrong, hoss.

The NCAA actually is less of a cabal of universities abusing students...and more what used to be a toothless oversight "association" put together after kids were getting killed in the 1900s in football, that eventually got hijacked by outsiders in the 1940s into being a blackmailer of universities for it's own self-serving power and monetary gain.

If you want to know more, there was a great piece in The Atlantic a few years ago about the history of NCAA and the hows and whys of the mess we have today all the way and including the reason why college kids are policed strictly regarding compensation. Here's a snippet of bombshells NCAA fans never hear...

The Atlantic said:
“I’M NOT HIDING,” Sonny Vaccaro told a closed hearing at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2001. “We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes, and the best way to do that is buy your school. Or buy your coach.”

Vaccaro’s audience, the members of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, bristled. These were eminent reformers—among them the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, two former heads of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and several university presidents and chancellors. The Knight Foundation, a nonprofit that takes an interest in college athletics as part of its concern with civic life, had tasked them with saving college sports from runaway commercialism as embodied by the likes of Vaccaro, who, since signing his pioneering shoe contract with Michael Jordan in 1984, had built sponsorship empires successively at Nike, Adidas, and Reebok. Not all the members could hide their scorn for the “sneaker pimp” of schoolyard hustle, who boasted of writing checks for millions to everybody in higher education.

“Why,” asked Bryce Jordan, the president emeritus of Penn State, “should a university be an advertising medium for your industry?”

Vaccaro did not blink. “They shouldn’t, sir,” he replied. “You sold your souls, and you’re going to continue selling them. You can be very moral and righteous in asking me that question, sir,” Vaccaro added with irrepressible good cheer, “but there’s not one of you in this room that’s going to turn down any of our money. You’re going to take it. I can only offer it.”
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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/
 
SGA76 said:
Grant it, sometimes they do get scholarships, so they get paid in an education, but the way the kids are treated would be a sham.
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Very few actually get scholarships, but the University/NCAA will then counter how costly it is to offer "first class" training facilities, trainers etc.
 
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