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Ex-Horn Whittier files $50B class action suit v. NCAA

Juan

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Only asking for $50 Billion

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A former University of Texas football player diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease has filed a $50 billion class action lawsuit against the NCAA, claiming the repeated traumatic head impacts he suffered as a player caused his health problems.
 
Julius Whittier played as an offensive lineman and a tight end for UT from 1969-1972. According to his lawsuit he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2012.
 
Whittier's class action lawsuit includes all former NCAA football players who played from 1960-2014 who did not go on to play professional football and who have been diagnosed with a latent brain injury or disease.
 
The lawsuit claims the NCAA has breached its duty to protect college football players "in the face of long-standing and overwhelming evidence regarding the need to do so."
 
 
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He came to one of our pre-OU Lunches years ago. . . .

This suit though is garbage, in the 60 and 70s, no one had a real clue how bad brain injuries really were so his arguement if bogus on it's face.

 
Not sure how this will end but Whittier is a former District Attorney and had a good legal mind.....  Sorry to hear about his condition.

 
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