The mounting pressure both on college and professional football in general is hitting the courts more and more often lately. Just last year, the Texas football program and the NCAA were involved in a lawsuit and settlement regarding CTE and damages to a former player on the Forty Acres. At 34-years-old, former Longhorns wide receiver Limas Sweed is getting involved legally too.
The NCAA was the defendant in a lawsuit where the wife, Deb Hardin-Ploetz, of a former football player in Austin, TX, who suffered from brain damage.
However, the player involved in a bit lawsuit with the NCAA now is a bit more recent on the minds of fans of the Texas football program and in the NFL, with former wide receiver Limas Sweed.