Law Dawgs- Damon Wilson

UGA is know for its Law School. I'm not sure if no "law dawgs" responding to this says more about them or us.....probably us.

Haven’t seen enough details on what the actual legal arguments are.

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I could be wrong here, but I think this is about whether these NIL agreements are legally binding. If Wilson wins, I imagine this would set a precedent in a direction that no one wants.

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Trial courts don't establish precedent. The verdict in this case would merely be persuasive, and the weight of that persuasion is going to vary greatly depending upon the state law in which the case is decided.

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I could be wrong here, but I think this is about whether these NIL agreements are legally binding.

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This original agreement was with the Classic City Collective.

The terms were outlined as an installment contract.

In any case, I would venture that the "contract" issue will have to be adjudicated based on the Georgia codes.

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How is anyone with actual legal knowledge going to be able to offer an informed opinion without having read the actual contract?

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It took a 30 second internet search to find a PDF of the lawsuit...:

This looks like the crux of it. A real lawyer would probably have to tell us what the hell a Term Sheet is exactly.

Lawsuits intentionally try to make the other party seem shady and unscrupulous, and this one definitely makes us look shady and unscrupulous. Regardless of what really happened, why not wait until after the season to create a distraction like this? Why send out a summons one less than a month before the playoffs start? You know our players are talking all about it amongst themselves.

On the evening of November 24, 2025, a deputy with the Boone County
Sheriff's Office delivered to Wilson’s home a summons and “application” to compel
arbitration that UGAA filed in the Superior Court of Athens-Clarke County in
Georgia.

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Near the end of Wilson’s sophomore season, the Classic City
Collective, Inc. (“CCC”)—a supporter-funded platform used by UGAA to license
student-athletes’ NIL rights that later purported to assign any rights to UGAA—
presented Wilson with a three-page term sheet (the “Term Sheet”). Ex. A.
5. UGAA and CCC offered Wilson the Term Sheet in the midst of his
preparation for Georgia’s game in the College Football Playoff—the biggest game
of the year. In late December 2024, a UGAA employee approached Wilson and
several of his teammates at Georgia’s football facility and directed the group to “go
upstairs.” Once upstairs, Wilson was presented with the Term Sheet, which was
already signed by CCC’s Co-Founder and then-CEO Matt Hibbs.
6. The Term Sheet contained a non-binding list of key terms that, if agreed
to, would “be used to create a legally binding document.” Ex. A at 2. The Term
Sheet stated that it “preced[es]” a “full License and Option Agreement,” Ex. A at 2,


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and specifically provided: “In the event the parties agree to this Term Sheet, then
they shall work cooperatively to set forth these terms in a full legal contract including
all the standard provisions of NIL licensing agreements.” Ex. A at 4. The Term
Sheet further stated that Wilson “should seek legal counsel before finalizing the full
License and Option Agreement.” Ex. A at 2.

7. Understanding the Term Sheet to be a set of terms that would be used
in reaching a legally binding NIL agreement, Wilson—without counsel present and
with UGAA employees telling him that time was of the essence—signed the Term
Sheet on December 21, 2024.

8. The parties never used the terms of the Term Sheet to create and execute
a “legally binding document” containing “all necessary contractual provisions.” Ex.
A at 2. Indeed, CCC failed even to present Wilson what it promised in the Term
Sheet—a “full License and Option Agreement.” Ex. A at 2. The parties thus never
executed a legally binding agreement containing any of the provisions in the Term
Sheet.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Wilson-vs-Georgia-countersuit.pdf

A term sheet is not a contract.

Within GA, civil suits are heard in the county of residence of the respondent. For example, if a Clarke County resident sues a Fulton County resident, the case would be held in Fulton County.

It gets murky when residents of different states are involved to include the possibility of a case being moved to federal court.

The actual contract may have language stipulating where the case will be held.

As to sleazy or not, that's going to be a matter of opinion. I don't think it looks sleazy at all.

While the outcome won't set a legal precedent, I would think that most of the coaching staffs out there are hoping for a UGA win to try to get to some sort of stability. Maybe not, though.

So, is what he signed not technically a binding contract?