These numbers are in season comparing this to fifteen

workouts. These numbers are in season. Comparing this to fifteen hours in class a week and a
mere six hours in study hall. A college student spends about fifteen hours studying and six hours
in class, daily. This is a problem. These statistics have been proven to affect the academic
performance of student-athletes. Off-season, athletes have to be present on campus, involved
in workouts and practices, even when the season is not in session.

Image and likeness is also another way that the NCAA exploits college athletes. Athletic
jerseys are sold in college bookstores and athletes do not receive any type of benefit from this.
“So whether you’re UCLA, Ohio State, Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, or whether you’re a
smaller school … everyone is getting paid. It’s the coaches, the athletic directors, the trainers,
doctors — everyone on campus is getting paid off of that money that the athlete is bringing in.
Except the athletes themselves” says Ed O’Bannon, a former UCLA star that led his team to the
1995 national championship. O’Bannon sued the NCAA for using his likeness and image in July
2009. He filed a lawsuit against the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company, alleging
violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act and of actions that deprived him of his right of publicity.
He agreed to be the lead plaintiff after seeing his likeness from the 1995 championship team
used in a video game without his permission. The game featured a UCLA player who played
O'Bannon's power forward position, while also matching his height, weight, bald head, skin
tone, No. 31 jersey, and left-handed shot. In January 2011, Oscar Robertson joined O'Bannon in
the class action suit. Bill Russell is also among the 20 former college athletes who are plaintiffs.
Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), both original co-defendants with
the NCAA, departed from the case and finalized a $40 million settlement that could net as much
as $4,000 to as many as 100,000 current and former athletes who had appeared in EA Sports
basketball and football video games since 2003. The trial against the NCAA lasted from June 9 to
June 27, 2014. The final written closing statements were submitted on July 10. On August 8,
2014, Wilken ruled that the NCAA's long-held practice of excepting payments to athletes
violated antitrust laws. She ordered that schools should be allowed to offer full cost-of-
attendance scholarships to athletes, covering cost-of-living expenses that were not currently

part of NCAA scholarships. Wilken also ruled that college be permitted to place as much as
$5,000 into a trust for each athlete per year of eligibility. The NCAA subsequently appealed the
ruling, arguing that Wilken did not properly consider NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University
of Oklahoma. In that case, the NCAA was denied control of college football television rights, but
the court also stated: "To preserve the character and quality of the ‘product,’ athletes must not
be paid." This case was very prevalent in shedding light on the issue of the NCAA exploiting
athletes. Johnny Manziel, former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback of Texas A&M, was