I hear they were pretty well endowed.

/poor kids

yeah, this thing is a mess. people in harrisburg are scrambling to get away from it.

I'd bet it will end up being a LOT more than that.

Somehow I don't think their Errors and Omissions insurance is going to cover this.

robmilmel: I'd bet it will end up being a LOT more than that.

It seems like one of those "just open up the checkbook and start writing" situations. You really don't want this in front of a jury.

Better get those kids a-workin'

Comic Book Guy: I'm willing to bet it's closer to $250M than $100M.

Hopefully the trustees don't raise tuition to make up for the legal actions as well as the reduction of athletic revenue. That's when the REAL shiat will hit the fan.

They raise tuition at colleges just because it's a Tuesday.

As I said elsewhere, the only winners are going to be lawyers.

basemetal: I hear they were pretty well endowed.

It's true.

Only, I don't know how they'll collect 15% of our giant cock. We don't have that much money compared to an Ivy League school, though.

Comic Book Guy: Sure they need legal representation, so you don't think they should be compensated for their job as well?

No. All lawyers should make G-man money. Accepting money or assets on top of that G-man pay should at least disbar you. AT LEAST.

Lawyering for money is what's destroyed more than one legal system. Take the old practice of judicial duels. In Viking turf, the winner was owed money from the loser. And you couldn't back out or you still had to pay, you just didn't risk dying.

The berkserks, elite and trained, would roam around the country literally picking fights. Then, they'd best the poor bastards they fought and take a bunch of dough. Money gets low and it's time to rinse, repeat. Eventually even the vikings had to put the kaibosh on the money.

Now, we don't deal with anything so nice as mere death. Now we've ventured into awards of so much money it would take two lifetimes to accumulate and lawyers who make so much if they spent even half of it on hookers they'd be in bed until Judgement Day!

Now, if ol' Johnny Cochren had been making G-man money and doin' it for the love, do you think OJ would have gotten off? Do you think an old lady would have gotten a million bucks for a spilt coffee? Do you think we'd even have a tenth of the lawsuits we do now?

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

/just for a second.
//just to see how it feels.
///going to hell.

JonnyG: It's kind of hard to have sympathy for this kind of thing in a country that permits such ridiculous financial payouts.

Good thing you're broke, so you don't have to worry about it.