Shariff Floyd Involved in Lawsuit Against NCAA

April 25, 2014   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

There's a new "Sharrif" in town, and he's taking on the NCAA too.
Former Florida star and current Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd has been named in a lawsuit against the NCAA, SEC and nine other major conferences, according to 247Sports' Thomas Goldkamp:
The suit makes the case that athletes like Floyd make the institutions large amounts of money and are not fairly compensated according to their market value thanks to caps on grants-in-aid to student-athletes. The suit goes as far as to call those grant-in-aid caps as 'price-fixing.'
Sports legal analyst Michael McCann provided a PDF of Floyd's lawsuit:
McCann also pointed out the differences between this lawsuit and some of the others against the NCAA that have been floating around:
For those who don't remember, Floyd was suspended for the first two games of the 2011 season after taking improper benefits. Following the suspension, Floyd was adopted by the same man who gave him the improper ben...

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