Wisconsin University filed a lawsuit on Friday MiamiThe football team broke the law by tampering with a Badger The player, which is the first legal attempt of its kind to impose conditions for a financial contract between a football player and his school.
The lawsuit indicates the athlete concerned as a “sports student”, but details of the complaint with the transfer of Offseason defense defense Kazavier Lucas. Lucas left Wisconsin and registered in Miami in January after he said that Al -Badgger employees refused to enter his name in the transport portal last December.
In the complaint submitted on Friday, Wisconsin claims that one of Miami and a prominent graduate of Lucas and his family met at the home of a relative in Florida and offered him money to transfer shortly after Lucas signed a two -year contract last December. The lawsuit states that Miami committed a warm intervention by forcing the player intentionally to break the conditions of his deals with Al -Badger.
The school said in a statement submitted to ESPN on Friday.
According to the complaint, Wisconsin decided to file a lawsuit in the hope that “during this time gathering of athletics in the college, this issue will enhance the total integrity of the game by legally accounting for programs when they are incorrectly interfering with contractual obligations.”
Miami University representatives did not immediately respond to the comment.
The suspended condition is to be an interesting test if schools can use name, photos and ideals (NIL) to prevent athletes from transportation even though the players are not technical employees. Starting July 1, schools will start paying athletes directly through deals.
The contracts between Wisconsin and their athletes give the school not exclusive to the use of any player in promotional performances. Part of the deal, according to the lawsuit, is prohibited from the athlete to make any obligations to register or exercise in other schools. The lawsuit says that Wisconsin had a reasonable expectation that “Lucas will continue to participate as a member of the football program” until the deal ended.
However, according to many contracts between the ten major schools and the players previously reviewed by ESPN, these deals expressly state that athletes are not paid to play football at the university. Since the school is only technically paid to use NIL rights for the player, it is not clear whether the judge will consider it fair to apply part of the contract that dictates where the player enrolled in the school.
Big Ten said in a statement on Friday that he supports Wisconsin’s decision to file the lawsuit and that Miami’s alleged actions “cannot be reconciled with a sustainable university athletic framework.”
Darren Haytner, a lawyer in Florida and represents Kazavier Lucas, told Espn that Wisconsin has not made any legal claims against Lucas and refused to comment more.
