Players from NC State’s 1983 championship team file lawsuit against NCAA for NIL earnings

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) — A group of players from NC State’s 1983 college basketball championship team is suing the NCAA for NIL earnings.

“We just want to be treated fairly,” said Cozell McQueen, one of ten players named as plaintiffs in the legal filing.

The lawsuit claims the NCAA used images and videos of the “Cardiac Pack” to advertise the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, among other commercial uses.

“You’re on TV for 40 plus years, every year and you can see the value of the enterprise that is promoted grow and grow and grow. I think anybody could look at that and reasonably say, they contributed and now to be treated fairly

I think is something that a lot of people can look back and say ‘I didn’t think about that, but it makes a lot of sense today,”‘ added Mike Warren, another former player on the 1983 team.

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