The NCAA video game thing I can see. They should have the right to use your likeness while you’re on the roster. The moment you leave they school they should have to get your written consent.

That was the whole point of the lawsuit. It’s been expanded, first, to include the sale of DVDs of games and other things including past players and now, apparently to get current players a cut of revenue made off of them (through jersey sales and the like) after they graduate.

/He’s a piece of shit

Secondly, if nothing else they can use the NCAA as a monopoly by requiring all schools to make the athletes sign off the ability to use their likeness forever. As many of these things didn’t exist when say, Russell or Oscar were in school, it would need some serious revision, as they had no choice in the matter regarding new technology. The judge allowed the live broadcast provision in the suit, but was skeptical of it , as she should be. It should be, once a scholarship is done, so are the rights. That does leave one large problem though, which has only been slightly addressed: What about walk ons?

The likeness bylaw is part of the scholarship, not part of some agreement that allows them to play on the team. The Ivy League schools have no scholarships. Clay Matthews is maybe the most prominent walk on right now, but there are surely others in NCAA basketball. It’s doubtful the NCAA has the rights to their likeness’ at all.

I finally caught up on my Supernatural DVRs

Ha. I liked your idea last week when you thought I had leaked a spoiler that Amelia was a demon that got sent back.

Fine. I propose we base college athlete wages on the Soused Value Index. It’s directly related to market prices and/or how much booze Soused has consumed.

I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world for booze and internet so that would be very volatile.

How about we let each conference set the rate averaged amongst them even though there are tremendous opportunities to cheat the index for monetary gain.

/Libor’d

the rye or the whiskey

It was their “Very Small Batch” bourbon, their standard if I’m correct.

Fine. I propose we base college athlete wages on the Soused Value Index. It’s directly related to market prices and/or how much booze Soused has consumed.

*global economy collapses … over the toilet*

Listen cunts, just because tuition goes up 500% does not mean value does as well. Cost $400,000 to pay a team minimum wage given the 20 hours rule, which is hilarious really that a 20 hour rule has the audacity to exist as such an obvious lie.

Fine. I propose we base college athlete wages on the Soused Value Index. It’s directly related to market prices and/or how much booze Soused has consumed.

Special occasion or just Thursday night?

I took the month off drinking to coddle my uppity liver.

Make the players clock in and pay them minimum wage then. See if they can afford that out-of-state tuition.

Listen cunts, just because tuition goes up 500% does not mean value does as well. Cost $400,000 to pay a team minimum wage given the 20 hours rule, which is hilarious really that a 20 hour rule has the audacity to exist as such an obvious lie.

yes, sweatshops are the same as an NCAA football player. You need to hit the sauce.

Monetary exploitation exists whether you are dying in a coal mine or banging tens in a dorm room.

the stuff is unreal. nice sweetness, and I can drink it with one ice cube.

I got some of those rock things as a stocking stuffer to replace ice when drinking booze. Haven’t tried them out yet. May do that tonight since the wife wants to keep watching The Following.

TX whisky

Then there was Tex … nobody knew where he was from.

And the result is going to be no more NCAA video games.

20-year-old me would have been literally depressed over this. Now I couldn’t care less. But Ritty is right. They’ll go out of their way to make sure the game players don’t resemble the real players.

I’ve been preaching this since last summer.

the stuff is unreal. nice sweetness, and I can drink it with one ice cube.

yes, sweatshops are the same as an NCAA football player. You need to hit the sauce.

Make the same argument for foxconn workers or sweatshops, you’re paid shut the fuck up!

Make the players clock in and pay them minimum wage then. See if they can afford that out-of-state tuition.

Drinking Thursday at midnight after a month off, there will be blood

Special occasion or just Thursday night?