Lawsuit against EA/NCAA over player likeness

[Rudy]

If you don't want your perceived "likeness" used, decline the scholarship and pay for school yourself. Maybe that's a good way to resolve this. Athletes who aren't on scholarship get $500 a year if their "likeness" is used. Take the scholly, take the $500, or don't play. Your choice.

If you want to play college football 99% of athletes don't have a choice. How many of those kids could afford to go to those schools without the scholarship? Saying a kid has a choice in this matter is really unfair. They don't.

Now many of you make the point that a scholarship is worth a lot of money. It is but that same scholarship has been the standard for years despite the phenomenal growth in revenues. I think it's completely fair for a college football athlete to wonder if they deserve more, especially since the average player still has to cough up an extra $4000 per year because it's not a true full ride.

Cdj, I don't care if a report comes out and says only 14 schools made money last year with their athletic department. If that's true then why does every BCS school pay their head coach close to $1 million with the average SEC school paying about $2.5 million? If schools aren't making enough money then it's time to cut the salaries of these overpaid coaches rather than say we can't give any more to the athletes or cut other programs. It's an extremely hypocritical stance, especially when football is making so much money and everyone else from coaches to ADs have seen their share go up at an incredible rate, more than the student's scholarship value.

I hope these guys lose but this is