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Sam Keller to Get Paid


Mavric

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Over the weekend, EA Sports and Collegiate Licensing Co., agreed to a settlement with plaintiffs (note the presiding judge must still agree to the terms) led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon for $40 million in the first of a long series of lawsuits aiming to give players a cut of the NCAA’s massive television and multimedia contracts. The settlement includes payments for athletes’ likenesses in football and basketball games dating as far back as 2003, which means as many as 200,000 former players are eligible for some sort of payout. O’Bannon and former Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller – who both got this ball rolling back in 2009 – will receive $15,000, a handful of others who joined the suit later will receive payouts of $5,000 or $2,500, and the rest of the class will receive as much as $951 and as little as $48 for each year their likeness appeared in an EA Sports game, depending on how many former players join the suit.

 

Scott and Zach had wildly different reactions to this news. Rather than just debate and argue in private conversation, we trapped both of them in the octagon and decided to hash this out in a point/counterpoint style.

 

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