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If NCAA doesn't get this overturned, open the floodgates They will start suing schools
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:25 am
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:25 am
The NCAA owes a former college football player and his wife $18 million, a South Carolina jury decided while finding college sports' major governing body negligent in failing to warn the player about the long-term effects of concussions.
Following a civil trial that wrapped up late last week, Orangeburg County jurors awarded $10 million to 68-year-old Robert Geathers, who played at South Carolina State University from 1977 to 1980 as a defensive end. His wife, Debra, was awarded $8 million, according to a court document.
Following a civil trial that wrapped up late last week, Orangeburg County jurors awarded $10 million to 68-year-old Robert Geathers, who played at South Carolina State University from 1977 to 1980 as a defensive end. His wife, Debra, was awarded $8 million, according to a court document.
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Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:30 am to nicholastiger
Good Lord that's ridiculous
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:48 am to nicholastiger
This is insane.
Sports have inherent danger. WTF?
Are all the high schools and pop warner leagues in America liable for this too?
Sports have inherent danger. WTF?
Are all the high schools and pop warner leagues in America liable for this too?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:55 am to nicholastiger
quote:Is this Jumpy Geathers?
68-year-old Robert Geathers
Posted on 10/27/25 at 9:57 am to jlovel7
quote:
Are all the high schools and pop warner leagues in America liable for this too?
Why not?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 10:14 am to nicholastiger
Somebody got paid off to have that ruling.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 10:36 am to Crow Pie
I looked it up. It’s the brother of Jumpy and the father of Robert Jr who played for the Bengals
Posted on 10/27/25 at 10:40 am to jlovel7
quote:
Are all the high schools and pop warner leagues in America liable for this too?
How do I collect my check? No one told me about concussions when I was participating in Oklahoma drills from age 11 to 18.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 10:44 am to Keys Open Doors
What did they even know about concussions back then and how is his case different than the thousands of other NCAA athletes over the last several decades
Posted on 10/27/25 at 10:46 am to Keys Open Doors
quote:Ok thanks. I though that the Saint's Jumpy was from SC.
I looked it up. It’s the brother of Jumpy and the father of Robert Jr who played for the Bengals
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He played defensive tackle at Wichita State, and then for 13 seasons in the NFL (New Orleans Saints 1984–1989, Washington Redskins 1990–1993, Atlanta Falcons 1994–1995, and Denver Broncos 1996). He was a part of the Redskins team that won Super Bowl XXVI. At 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) and 290 pounds (130 kg) he was a forceful pass rusher, famous for his "forklift" rush, in which he picked up his blocker and carried him to the quarterback.[3] Despite bad knees later in his career, Geathers played well into his 30s. Geathers' career was cut short when he ruptured his Achilles tendon during training camp with the Denver Broncos and spent the 1997 season on injured reserve,[4] the same year the Broncos would go on to win the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. He retired with 62 sacks in 183 games. Geathers attended Choppee High School located in Georgetown, South Carolina.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 10:48 am
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:20 am to nicholastiger
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Orangeburg County jurors awarded $10 million to 68-year-old Robert Geathers, who played at South Carolina State University from 1977 to 1980 as a defensive end. His wife, Debra, was awarded $8 million, according to a court document.
The county is over 60% black. Did they play race card or “systemic racism”? That has been used since the summer of love to greatly inflate civil damages for black plaintiffs.
Why all from the NCAA? Did they not also sue the HBCU school?
The amount almost implies the judgement considered today’s medical knowledge and equipment to have been readily around in the late 70s and just ignored. Or again it’s about race and pushing penalty up past the black school to the higher and whiter authority.
It also ignores how it’s more likely high schools and below level of contact sports had hardly any medical oversight compared to college programs. The concussions of developing brain before college and the NFL are constantly ignored in these case to hit the ones with more money.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:27 am to nicholastiger
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1977 to 1980
w.t.f. ????
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Concerns about concussions in college football began to gain attention in the early 1990s, with significant developments occurring in 1994 when the NCAA published guidelines outlining protocols for returning to play after a concussion.
So the school was supposed to be up on the looming crisis over a decade earlier??
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 11:33 am
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:31 am to nicholastiger
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Robert Geathers
haven't heard that name in a while. His son (or family member of some kind) played for UGA in the early Richt era. I distinctly remember him breaking up a halfback pass at clemson in 2003 where the RB was throwing it in the endzone to QB charlie whitehurst.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:18 pm to nicholastiger
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jurors found the NCAA “voluntarily assumed duties to protect the health and safety of Robert Geathers” and that the NCAA “negligently breached their duties” to him.
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making this South Carolina verdict the first NCAA loss to a jury in a concussion case.
Sounds like the jury was just helping another brother out against the man.
NCAA has previously won all other similar arguments.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:36 pm to BZ504
quote:
Somebody got paid off to have that ruling.
No, probably just a “home town” jury. Happens all the time.
Outside big company and city slicker lawyers having to litigate a trial outside the comfort of a large city.
Local attorney, local judge and local litigant have the advantage of a “jury of their actual peers.” The jury, attorney and judge are all friends.
In this situation the deck is many times stacked against the “outsiders”.
The large company I worked for got screwed in Point Coupee parish because of this. A very low speed contact - vehicle impact, where there were no markings of any kind where the impact occurred. Court ruled against almost every motion and over ruled most objections.
Result was an 7 digit payday for the local party for a BS “crash’.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 6:25 pm to zuluboudreaux
frick it, let's allocate 100% of university revenues to paying past and present student athletes. 100% of tuition receivables will now be divided amongst anyone who played for the football team at some point in the last 40 years, paid on a per snap basis. Add up the number of offensive/defensive/special teams plays ran during that period, multiply it by 11, divide each players total snaps by that number, that's their decimal fraction on present and future revenues
frick the students who actually choose to attend the school for higher education, let's defraud them in favor of athletes who never gave a shite/had allegiance to the university in the first place and only saw it as a potential payday/platform for boosting their own profile
And the sad part is many of the athletes actually believe they're entitled to/deserve such
frick the students who actually choose to attend the school for higher education, let's defraud them in favor of athletes who never gave a shite/had allegiance to the university in the first place and only saw it as a potential payday/platform for boosting their own profile
And the sad part is many of the athletes actually believe they're entitled to/deserve such
Posted on 10/27/25 at 6:29 pm to jlovel7
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pop warner leagues
Anyone suiting up little kids in pads and helmets to play tackle football is a fricking moron. I’m not sure when it is appropriate, but 5-10 definitely isn’t it.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 7:13 pm to Crow Pie
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Geathers played well into his 30s. Geathers' career was cut short when he ruptured his Achilles
Make these two sentences make sense
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:16 pm to Blizzard of Chizz
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Make these two sentences make sense
In Tom Brady's world?
Posted on 10/28/25 at 7:50 am to nicholastiger
These juries are retarded
A million, ok 10 mil, lololol
And this will go to an appeal and be appealed till it gets on possibly. Supreme court. Dockett, they might pass on it, but NCAA. Will go all the way with this rulnng
A million, ok 10 mil, lololol
And this will go to an appeal and be appealed till it gets on possibly. Supreme court. Dockett, they might pass on it, but NCAA. Will go all the way with this rulnng
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