On March 26, 1979, Magic Johnson's MSU team defeated Larry Bird's ISU squad, 75-64, at the Special Events Center in Salt Lake City. That showdown had an estimated 35.1 million viewers tuned in to the NBC telecast announced by Dick Enberg, Billy Packer and Al McGuire. It’s STILL the highest rated basketball game at ANY level.

We have to have Koa Peat- he is literally a walking Jarace Walker, he can be developed and his game elevated to the next level.

If players fromt the 80's are entitled to any money then the schools are entitled to any money the players made based on going to the school. This lawsuit crap is getting out of hand. They knowingly accepted the deals they accepted. And many of those players got payments. We have to be honest here.

Did the redshirt freshman last year get to practice with the team?

@LockedOnCoogs

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RS’s do everything but play in games, and sometimes that means not traveling.

The tortilla is what makes or breaks a good breakfast taco.

This lawsuit will bankrupt college sports…..you can compensate the players without compensating….trainers, cheerleaders, assistant coaches and Coaches ….and their families……especially in the past…every school has their top team players and programs and notoriety of old…etc…basicly anyone who was involved in athletics! Got to be sanity somewhere!!

I'm usually on the players' side, but I hope this lawsuit goes nowhere. Talk about a Pandora's Box. This could shut down a whole lot of easy access of the public to historical media. Not just sports history.... but all types of historical events. If each and every player now "owns" a bit of every event they ever participated in, then access to that media will have to be highly restricted and expensive... simply to pay everyone. Why should this stop with sports? Why not everything. Should the Kennedy family receive royalties for every time JFK is featured in media? Should the astronauts' families receive royalties for any mention of their members? Should Martin Luther King Jr.'s family receive payment for any media use of his life and times? Remember "Baby Jessica," the little girl who fell into a well in Midland, and the entire nation (if not world) was mesmerized for a couple of days as the rescue effort ensued? Should she and her family, or any of the rescuers involved, get paid for any replay of any of that story? The same basic question could be asked of anyone in any media? Should every event, every story, every individual be monetized? Are we, as consumers, going to be expected to pay, one way or another, for every snippet of historical media? My thinking is that players, and other "celebrities" of one form or another, willingly avail themselves to participate in the system of that era for the benefits then offered (including education, a unique and special sports experience, potential acclaim and fame and lifetime access to a prestige and wide range of opportunities that other people never have ). Their performance within that system, of that era, then become property of the institutions which comprise that system. If the systems themselves eventually change, this should not affect the in any way. They received fair payment for what they originally bargained. There was nothing in their scholarship and participating contracts that remotely hinted of perennial payment. Trying to change the rules a decade, or decades, later is not in the best interest of anyone really.

Tired of hearing blue blood