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Members of the Cardiac Pack are Suing the NCAA Over NIL

Member of NC State’s 1983 NCAA Championship team, the Cardiac Pack, are suing the NCAA and the CLC over Name, Image and Likeness.

Thurl Bailey, Alvin Battle, Walt Densmore, Tommy DiNardo, Terry Gannon, George McClain, Cozell McQueen, Walter Proctor, Harold Thompson and Mike Warren are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Here’s the language of the Introduction of the lawsuit, which you can read in full here:

For more than 40 years, the NCAA and its co-conspirators have systematically and intentionally misappropriated the Cardiac Pack’s publicity rights—including their names, images, and likenesses—associated with that game and that play, reaping scores of millions of dollars from the Cardiac Pack’s legendary victory.