The NCAA is an organization comprised of it's members. It's only function is to govern school's athletics programs. The school's elect / appoint members of the NCAA to lead and govern them. Ohio State, Penn State, Florida, Notre Dame, USC, Iowa, Arizona State, Texas A&M, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, Duke, etc... are all the NCAA. When the athlete accepts an athletic scholarship to a given university, they must abide by NCAA laws that govern that scholarship or lose it and their eligibility to participate. Hating on the NCAA is no different than hating on your favorite school. They are the same thing. If you hate the NCAA and you're OSU Buckeye fan....you basically hate OSU too. These ex-players sued EA b/c they could. They couldn't sue the NCAA. Sam Keller couldn't sue ASU or Nebraska. EA was there and unprotected. In all, EA still made out okay on the whole deal -- even though they paid out a large sum. That gig is over now. The players went after the one thing they could and did. All the while, their school allowed them to be "exploited"....which they signed up for when they accepted the scholarship. Once again....all this lawsuit did was say "If the athlete can't get legally paid....nobody else is". How did this help the athlete? That's like saying....if I can't get paid for cutting that strip of lawn over there....I am making sure no landscaper will get paid either. How did this help anything? It didn't. Bitter, lame, washed up ex-athletes. God forbid they go to class and try to better themselves and build something....instead of tearing down something they NEVER were entitled to anyway.