Former Louisville BB players suing NCAA

[RUich]

Don't know if they really have a case here, but I always feel badly for the players that had no knowledge or involvement in something that ends up like this.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ville-players-sue-ncaa-vacated-national-title

 

[ScarletKid2008]

What a country we live in ... sue for everything. Even if you’re partially to blame for putting yourself in that position!

 

[ecojew]

Don't know if they really have a case here, but I always feel badly for the players that had no knowledge or involvement in something that ends up like this.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ville-players-sue-ncaa-vacated-national-title

I don't really care about "vacating" the title as that is a meaningless punishment. What I do hope the NCAA did was force UL to pay back any money it received for that tournament, which includes what their conference (which I believe was still the BE at that point) received as their payout. The conference can then go after UL for whatever they lost.

 

[ecojew]

What a country we live in ... sue for everything. Even if you’re partially to blame for putting yourself in that position!

The potential value in this is that the lawsuit helps bring additional attention to the sham that the NCAA has become.

 

[Russ Wood]

I don't really care about "vacating" the title as that is a meaningless punishment. What I do hope the NCAA did was force UL to pay back any money it received for that tournament, which includes what their conference (which I believe was still the BE at that point) received as their payout. The conference can then go after UL for whatever they lost.

The two go hand-in-hand.

If they have to vacate wins then that means those games never happened and any financial benefit they received for a game that did not happen must be returned.

 

[ecojew]

The two go hand-in-hand.

If they have to vacate wins then that means those games never happened and any financial benefit they received for a game that did not happen must be returned.

Thanks, Russ. That's good to know. I hope that you mean to say that the conference also loses that money (and the "points" that go with it for 6 years as is being discussed in another thread on this board at the moment).

 

[Russ Wood]

Thanks, Russ. That's good to know. I hope that you mean to say that the conference also loses that money (and the "points" that go with it for 6 years as is being discussed in another thread on this board at the moment).

I believe that is also correct based on what a B1G football player told me about vacated games. He said "it is like the gams were never played. No individual records achieved (I think a teammate of his set a team record for tackles in a game), no bowl money nothing."