It feels like the athletes are trying to end the NCAA faster than conference realignment. How much farther back will they go toward collecting back payments?
Winston & Strawn LLP and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, the international firms that won the Alston case against the NCAA in the Supreme Court, filed their latest suit in the Northern District of California against both the NCAA and the five Power 5 conferences (Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12, ACC and Big 12). The case names former Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard (who is now with the Carolina Panthers) and former Auburn track athlete Keira McCarrell as plaintiffs.
The Hubbard-McCarrell case seeks triple damages on behalf of current and former Division I college athletics for injuries suffered from rules found to be unlawful in the Alston litigation. The NCAA lost the Alston case 9–0 in the Supreme Court, requiring the association to allow schools to distribute as much as $5,980 a year to athletes in education-related compensation. Since the June 2021 Supreme Court ruling, at least 50 programs are doling out the Alston funds to athletes, attorneys say.
Attorneys contend that at least 5,000 athletes are owed two years of back Alston payments from 2018–19 and ’19–20, but that number could climb to more than 20,000 athletes, putting damages at a minimum of $200 million and as much as $1 billion.
Winston & Strawn LLP and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, the international firms that won the Alston case against the NCAA in the Supreme Court, filed their latest suit in the Northern District of California against both the NCAA and the five Power 5 conferences (Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12, ACC and Big 12). The case names former Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard (who is now with the Carolina Panthers) and former Auburn track athlete Keira McCarrell as plaintiffs.
The Hubbard-McCarrell case seeks triple damages on behalf of current and former Division I college athletics for injuries suffered from rules found to be unlawful in the Alston litigation. The NCAA lost the Alston case 9–0 in the Supreme Court, requiring the association to allow schools to distribute as much as $5,980 a year to athletes in education-related compensation. Since the June 2021 Supreme Court ruling, at least 50 programs are doling out the Alston funds to athletes, attorneys say.
Attorneys contend that at least 5,000 athletes are owed two years of back Alston payments from 2018–19 and ’19–20, but that number could climb to more than 20,000 athletes, putting damages at a minimum of $200 million and as much as $1 billion.
