Steelerfan I tend to agree with your line of thinking there & if there is something in their scholarship agreement that gives the university unlimited use of their likeness then I think it should be an open an shut case. If there isn't however, I would think that these former players have a case to some extent at least.

CDJ, is that athletic departments as a whole or specifically football? If football profits are being used to "float" the rest of the athletic department in most cases then I think that skews the numbers quite a bit. And as far as EA not making as much, I don't think they would still be in business if they weren't making plenty of money. Which, in the case of NCAA Football 'XX, is closely related with having accurate teams and rosters.