(09-30-2021, 06:11 PM)paloalto Wrote: “I was there to be an athlete,” Livers said in a separate interview, ... “Without being an athlete, I probably wouldn’t have been there. … I was there to take whatever class I needed to continue to play.”
IMO many colleges will eventually do away with athletic scholarships and continue with sports only on a club level.
Livers is apparently no longer a plaintiff because of statue of limitations issues, but his case is interesting. He himself seems mainly concerned about his two years as a walk-on. It's not clear to me if in the plaintiff's theory of the case there is any legal distinction between walk-ons and scholarship players.
I am also wondering about the distinction of club sports versus NCAA sports.
Among the plaintiffs in this case are a Fordham swimmer, tennis players from Sacred Heart and Lafayette, and a Cornell soccer player. If those programs are not "there primarily for the athletes [rather than] the monetary benefit of the school" then it is hard to see what sports competition of any type would be primarily for the athlete/students.
[Note the part in quotation marks is supposedly the legal issue upon which a judge decided to let the case continue on for now.]