Title IX lawsuit settled for $2.48 million

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BruinVol said:
Can't agree with that. If there was nothing there no way you pay 2mil
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There's a very good chance with the settlement being this small it was covered entirely by insurance. In other words the insurance company pays it out and decided to settle as it was in their interests. That's why you have insurance, it's chump change overall and who knows, the lawyers may be getting 50% or more rather than the customary 33%. Why? Many a client has been told by their attorney they recommend a settlelment and the negotiated offer will put X $s in their pocket, yea or nay? Client says "hell yea!" since it's more money than they've ever had or expected to ever have and feels great about it. Lawyer feels great as the client is happy, and his firm is happy as he walks off with more than 50% of the settlement. It happens, some attornies just see it as another negotiation. This ok by me, but I was of the thought make it cost them their $2 million by going to court.
 
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Thank goodness this is over....now maybe all the negative recruiting that was with it will come to an end
 
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tonybologna said:
But, can't they still step in & give us sanctions and/or NCAA violations over this even though this particular matter might not have been an NCAA issue?
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Tony, there is no proof we did ANYTHING wrong. None. Just accusations.

madbamahater said:
These complantiffs will get around 200k each, if even that. That's just sad......

They will be broke in 6 months tops...
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Some of them will also have to deal with karma.
 
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madbamahater said:
These complantiffs will get around 200k each, if even that. That's just sad......

They will be broke in 6 months tops...
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Around $180,000 before taxes is my guess. 40% of that 2.4 million will be gone before they even begin to split it up. Lawyers and courts will get theirs first.
 
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esarmstrong said:
This was what was going to happen all along. It happened really quickly in a relative sense. The only issue was when would discovery be completed sufficiently so that an offer or demand could be made. Depositions were not even taken of any of the plaintiffs or Tennessee administration.
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Agree..

The entire ordeal makes me SICK.....just sling some mud at the University to earn a payday....and it works because it will cost more to DEFEND yourself (UT) than it costs to grease their pockets (plaintiff's attorneys).....

Where is the TRUTH? It's LOST out there in the cultural milieu of everyone being a VICTIM....

And I'm not trying to belittle anyone. But--the ONLY reason they got ANYTHING was the publicity earned from throwing Manning's name into the pot.....
 
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UT would have spent millions defending itself even if it won. This is about as little as they could get out of it for. The plaintiffs will get about $150-200k at most. Their attorney will now show them how to get screwed.
 
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Most of you idiots are so full of crap it's fascinating to me that it's not spewing out of your ears. Don't you realize that your arguments, "people just have it out for football players" and "you can't judge all off of one" are so contradictory. You also can't say that just because 95% of the team isn't committing assault and rape doesn't mean that the other 5% isn't. You seriously have deluded yourself into believing that with that big of a group, there haven't been any crimes committed???? When in fact, 1 in 5 women get raped on college campuses. You are telling me that it is not at all possible, that these boys did in fact, commit brutal crimes?
The ludicrous lengths that people will go to convince themselves that college rapes aren't happening is, quite frankly, appalling. I cannot fathom how masses and masses of people have been brainwashed into thinking that these young athletes could not possibly do any wrong doing. Most of these people and fans have never spoken to these athletes in their lives. Hell, most probably haven't even spoken to someone who knows these boys on any kind of legitimate level. Yet, people begin obsessing over these boys when they're still in high school. As a society, we have made them idols. People don't know much about their habits, individual personalities, or shortcomings. What they do know is stats: height, weight, wing span, how fast they can run, how far they can throw or kick a ball, how many points they've scored, or in the case of universities, how much money can be made off of them. College football is a multimillion dollar business after all.
I'm not here to condemn every football player. I am fully aware that the majority of the players are probably just good guys who love the game. That's cool with me. What is not cool with me, is that fact that for whatever reason we have been convinced that every single last one of these athletes is a saint. There's an expression out there, you might of heard it before, that there's always a few bad apples in every bunch. So can someone please explain to me how everyone can believe that there are no bad apples in the hundreds of student athletes at any given university? Sure, they might not start off on any bad paths, but it has been proven time and time again, that when people are idolized at a young age they are often treated with insane amounts of privilege. And often times, cannot deal with it.
For athletes, privelege means they often receive free dining on campus, additional help in classes and private tutors (I believe schools have even gone down for creating entirely new, lighter courses specifically just for athletes to pass), social media coaching, later deadlines, and recently, UT has also allotted nearly $6,000 stipends to go to student athletes who already receive full scholarships. I would also like to add that thats currently the largest stipend amount out of the other universities offering stipends to student athletes. That's $6,000 worth of spending money to a kid who is already eating, sleeping, and attending a university for free with additional added benefits that other students don't get to benefit from. So to say that people are making up that these are very privileged kids is just bull****.
So what do we have here? A fan base convinced that every single one of their athletes is 100% innocent. Who then also have the notion that all of these girls are asking for it and falsely accusing (which btw, rape has the same exact false reporting statistics that every other crime in America has-around 2%, but they must all just be lying and in it for the money, huh?), coaches and police departments discussing crimes BEFORE they are ever investigated, a Vol team comprised of solely attractive young women to "entertain" young recruits, and the largest stipend amount to student athletes nationwide. But no, no, no there's no student athlete entitlement problem or rape culture at UT, right?
THANK GOD we can all finally move on and focus on what really matters here which is football and recruiting despite the fact that this will never be over for those girls. They will live with what happened to them for the rest of their lives, but thank god that the rest of us get to focus on the important things in life again now. You all should be ashamed.
 
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BaldBiker said:
Around $180,000 before taxes is my guess. 40% of that 2.4 million will be gone before they even begin to split it up. Lawyers and courts will get theirs first.
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Honestly feel like you just rearranged the words from one of my earlier posts.haha
 
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It sucks only because it has dampered our image a tad bit. Even if it was weak enough to settle for a small amount, it makes us look like we wanted to hush it up (to the oblivious). But I'm very glad we got this done.
 
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Overit,

First, what a crazy first post.

Second, while it is absolutely true that none of us knows the truth, you are jumping to the opposite unfounded extreme from the folks you're chastising. To assume that a rape definitely occurred is as baseless as assuming it didn't.

Third, while campus rape is certainly a serious issue, the "one in five" statistic is a canard that no one could possibly take seriously if one spends a single moment's thought beyond what it requires to read the number.
 
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