Student-athlete’s implied contract claim fails

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A federal court in Pennsylvania tossed claims by a college baseball player and his father against Coastal Carolina University and its coach after the player allegedly lost his roster spot shortly before enrolling.

The pair sued on an implied contract theory but never alleged a breach of their actual written contract, which the court noted is not how any of this works. Implied contract claims must be pleaded as an alternative to breach of an express contract, or paired with an argument that the express contract is unenforceable — neither happened here.

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There is a certain poetry in losing a lawsuit over a technicality about how to properly lose a roster spot. The lesson, as always in litigation: read the contract you signed before suing over the one you imagined.

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