Less than a week after the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced it would consider allowing players to profit off their names and likenesses, an ex-Villanova University football player filed a class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania federal court, seeking back pay for the time he spent as a Division I athlete.

The NCAA’s announcement came in the wake of legislation that California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in late September, and represented a major shift in the way the Indiana-based athletic organization had previously considered the issue.

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