Drop a Triple Double on them Oscar

Oscar Robinson is suing the NCAA for allowing his likeness to be used without his permission or compensation. You heard it first from BigBlueRules who heard it first from Larry Vaught. Oscar Robinson is a much bigger name than the former UCLA player Ed O’Bannon who is suing the NCAA for using his likeness without permission or paying him.

This story on yahoo sports says that former UCLA Bruins star Kareem Abdul Jabbar recently filed suit against the NCAA in California state court based on the same trading cards featuring Robertson.

Its only a matter of time before one of these lawsuits are won. Of course then there will be the appeal followed by a higher appeal to the supreme court and mean while some congressman will get involved for the publicity.

I figured this a while back based on 850 athletes in the sports program at Kentucky and paying them $100 a month for 9 months. It comes out to $1,020,000 a year. I’m sure that ESPN can come up with $12,000,000 more a year to pay the SEC by just adding a couple more commercials a game and during the championship game.

What I think is we meaning the top 7 or 8 conferences should break away from the NCAA and form a new entity that will allow paying players. The small conferences can stay in the NCAA or go to the NAIA. Then the players will be professional players and Enes can play.

Of course once we start paying athletes then there will end up being a players union sooner or later and new headaches. Speaking of which I’m getting a headache thinking about this. Anyone got a beer?