By: dmc-admin//February 15, 2010//
I wouldn’t expect my college alma mater to feature archived video footage each May of me receiving my diploma.
Then again, I attended a Division III school and had no aspirations of making a living playing professional basketball.
But a former college hoopster who starred on the 1995 national champion UCLA Bruins team is arguing that the NCAA shouldn’t be able to profit off a player’s name and image after they graduate.
Ed O’Bannon is the lead plaintiff in a federal class action suit against the NCAA, which was filed last year. On Feb. 8, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken denied the NCAA’s request to dismiss the suit.
I’m not in favor of paying college players, but should there be a line drawn when it comes to how long and for how much the NCAA can profit off a player, especially those who graduate and never go on to make megabucks in the NBA?