It would have turn into a class action suit by the very nature of it. At what point would the line be drawn as many of the low-major players are not accurately portrayed? For example,is Mario Sisinni of Coastal Carolina fairly represented? Throw in the yearly miscues of a white player being portrayed black and visa versa plus the governing body of the NCAA having their licensing agreement with EA and it shows a desperate move by a desperate ex-player.

What I’ve said may be completely inaccurate and is only a knee jerk reaction, but this is something I am definitely going to do research on.

Talk about going downhill. I thought he had good potential as a player but it seems that he tries to find his way out of things the easy way. Does anyone know what he is asking for in the suit?

Go Devils!

his dignity.

Sam could end up getting his ass handed to him in this lawsuit. This definitely reeks of desperation. Could be a win the battle, lose the war proposition here. OR a lose the war, dignity and money snake eyes propostion. The threat of the latter alone, should make him reconsider.

This is exactly the punch in the mouth the NCAA needs.

Their hypocrisy is deafening.

As SC continues to be investigated over the Bush and Mayo problems I find it laughable that NCAA on one hand can hand down punishments to schools because players make decisions that affect their Amateur status while they in turn use the “likeness” of said players to make money. Funny how they use only the star players likeness. I guess that throws the whole no athlete is bigger than the next out the window. This crap about a free education is a joke, the disparity between what an education “costs” and what the NCCA makes off these players is off the charts.

You can’t have it both ways. Either protect the players or market the hell out of them but if you do the latter it only perpetuates the problem as more Bush and Mayo’s will pop up.

I don’t know if Keller’s suit has any merit and I really couldn’t care less what his motivations are but I give him credit for having the balls to take some action. If it was anyone of us we would probably do the same thing.

Put another way…coaches and schools can make decisions with little to no consequences. The way Keller was treated by Koetter at ASU was atrocious; essentially forcing him to sit out a year in order to try and improve his skills for the next level. Koetter gets fired and skips off to the NFL while Keller loses a year of development yet the NCAA is allowed to make money off his likeness?

The NCAA couldn’t care less about these players…Myles Brand is a phony, he can talk all he wants about kids getting an education but he does nothing to protect his brand against the NBA. He lets Stern use the NCAA as its development league and won’t force Stern to adopt a three year rule thus protecting both league’s products.

I laughed my ass off last year when he said that 2 years of college is better than one and 1 year is better than none. Really? How’s that working out for Davon Jefferson? Did he really get a full year of an education or did he just do the bare minimum to stay eligible? Brand is walking around blind without a cane…

So I am fine with Keller doing this and if he makes a few bucks in the process that’s all the better for him. I am not sure how far this will get but just filing the suit peels another layer of the onion of the NCAA’s hypocrisy.

This is funny Paragon. I have seen you tirelessly defend USC on Burntorangenation as well. So I am familiar.

USC is approaching troubled waters because they paid their players. Don’t try and hide behind/mix in the Sam Keller situation to try and find yourself an outing excuse or reasoning for SC explicitly breaking the most fundamental rules of NCAA sports.

Its an institutional thing – not an NCAA thing. Bush’s and Mayo’s should never pop up in any school that actually cares about the rules. Period. Koetter treating Keller like shit and Keller (after graduating from college) going after the NCAA for likeness in video games is one thing. A coach paying player’s handlers straight cash to recruit and an athletic department knowingly letting your star running back and his family live like an NFL star during college is far, far, far more damning than any NCAA hypocrisy going the other way.

Lets get that straight off the bat.