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You don't find it strange that they were made conservators when he was legally an adult? I don't know the whole story, but did they in fact enrich themselves by doing so?
The NCAA got involved after this formerly abandoned homeless black teen received a football scholarship from Ol Miss, which also happened to be the alma mater of the family who took him in. They were also boosters for Ol Miss, which technically violated recruiting regulations. This could have stopped him from playing, and the conservatorship was the fastest way around all of this. He and his biological mother agreed to the conservatorship for this reason.
I don’t think this is anymore than an old fashioned shake down considering Oher has been estranged from them for 10
years and his NFL career ended 5 years ago.
With his talent he didn't have to play at Ole Miss. He could have played anywhere. And in all honesty, if this was so above board, he should have been represented by counsel. They manipulated that situation and they went around the NCAA regulations.
I think there was a power imbalance at the time this conservatorship was created. He was 18, not well educated and I'm assuming his mother wasn't as well positioned as they were either.
Yeah, but this is the south and it’s steeped in family traditions. No one batted an eye when they enrolled him at their kid’s private high school or paid for all of his living expenses before he ever played football. I’m sure he loved watching the Ol Miss games with them and wanted to go there. I don’t think they groomed him. The dad played football there and the mom was a cheerleader. It’s as American as apple pie and this abandoned homeless teen was living the dream.
The court was required to appoint a private attorney and an investigator as the attorney for the incapacitated person and also assigns a county employee as an investigator when the petition was filed. I seriously doubt it was contested.
He isn't now and wasn't then mentally or physically incapacitated. They provided him counsel, not the courts. You don't offer someone "help" with expectations of profiting if you're doing it for compassion.
Which begs the question why did an adult age 18 of sound mind and not physically incapacitated willingly enter into a conservatorship? The logical conclusions is because it benefited him in some way.
Uh hello, he was homeless and he probably wasn't that clear what it meant from a legal perspective. Did he fully understand the implication of them having the legal wherewithal to prevent HIM from signing contracts without their permission?
At 18, I bet he didn't.
The conservatorship has been terminated.
Because regardless of what they did, it was his talent that got him into the NFL and there would be no story without him.