Kris Jenkins, who made the winning shot For Villanova in the 2016 University Basketball Championship game, it is demanding the NCAA and six conferences to recover the income that it maintains that it would have won if the athletes at that time were not prohibited for earning money with their name, image and likeness.
Jenkins is among the current and previous 350 athletes who have chosen not $ 2.8 billion antitrust settlement With the NCAA that is on the cusp of the final approval. Some of the exclusion options have submitted demands to obtain lost income on their own.
The NCAA athletes were not allowed to earn null money until July 2021. The so -called house agreement would provide a subsequent payment for athletes dating from 2016, with the amount for each generally determined by the sport and how much the athlete played. Jenkins played in Villanova since 2013-17 and in his last two seasons he began 72 of 76 games and averaged 13 points per game.
The lawyer Kevin T. Duffy Jr. de Greenwich, Connecticut, filed Jenkins’ demand on Saturday at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. It means a jury trial and compensation for Jenkins to be determined in the trial. The NCAA declined to comment.
According to the demand, Jenkins is entitled to a part of the generosity associated with Villanova winning the national title in its triple bell.
As a result of that shot, the demand says, according to the reports, the NCAA paid the Big East $ 19.1 million to distribute among its member schools; The Athletics Department received a gift of $ 22.6 million, bigger in the history of the program; and the sports program generated $ 11.4 million in revenues and completely financed its sports that are not income.
The demand indicates that donations of alumni increased 27% in 2016, the registration increased and that the advertising value of winning the title was approximately $ 250 million and around $ 1 billion if the value of the transmissions of the game was billed.
The demand says that due to the restrictions of the NCAA in the compensation of athletes, Jenkins was denied a part of the transmission income and the compensation that he would have received for the uses of transmission of media of his null (“bnil”), as well as the income that he would have won by his third parties of third parties for use in video games and other opportunities, including marketing, the social media, the social media, the social media, the social media, the social media, the social media, the social media, the social media and the other nil.
The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, PAC-12 and the Southeast Conference were appointed as defendants, the lawsuit said, because each participated with the NCAA in the “collusive restriction of trade and other violations of the law alleged in this complaint.”
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