Jackson Jambalaya

Michael got some really bad advice from some really dumb people. The folks that took him in would have probably shared their fortune with him along the lines of what their biological kids get. He has talked himself into nothing.

Touhys-1 Oher-0

"The "sole reason" the Tuohys established the conservatorship was so Oher could attend Ole Miss without having any NCAA problems said Fishman."

If this is a true statement, and it must be because we all know lawyers would never tell a lie, why is the conservatorship still in effect? As best I recall, it has been many years since Mr. Oher played college ball for Ole Miss.

He went to ole miss in 2004, 19 years ago and is still in a conservatorship?

The man made over $30,000,000. Has he blown it?

I feel sorry for all involved. For Oher, because I believe he is misguided.
RMQ

It is bizarre, twisted, and sick of mind to invite anything like that into your home to live amongst your children just so he can play on your damn beloved ball team. All concerned deserve whatever sturm und drang comes, and richly so. I am repulsed.

Free Brittany Spears!

I understand more now, If Michael had fostered a relationship with the Tuohys, Mr Tuohy would have shown him how to invest and live off part of the interest instead of gobbling down all set before him. Goodhearted wealthy people love for people to join them, with 30 mill over a few years, Michael's grandchildren should be set for life, if he had done as he saw Mr Tuohy do. Preserve capital at all costs. Don't eat the seeds!
Nothing feels as good as being rich, drive a new Lexus every four years, get a Truck every ten years, a good house and let the money go to work. Do good and be somebody, get some new work or endorsements and live the good life.

I still think Carlos the Clown is involved.

But driving from Brookhaven to Memphis every day will wear out
that esteemed barrister .

Oher only got $100k from that movie? He should join the writers strike. Goodness gracious that is objectively kind of obscene for a kid who, in the movie, was portrayed as not well off in any way except talent. Box office over 300 million.. poor kid.. 100k..I pretty much believe he just had an epiphany as his life has slowed down and he reflects. Anyone could say 100k wasn't exactly what the kid should have got. His life should've been set off the film

6:04 good grief. Forget the movie. His life and all his entire and future families should be set FOREVER off of a $30,000,000 payday. He probably dumb assed it away.

LOL @ all the rebs in the comments. Losers! Sad!

Jason Whitlock at Sports Radio doesn't have any sympathy for Oher.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/jason-whitlock-reveals-michael-oher-s-real-motive-behind-tuohy-lawsuit/ar-AA1fv17Q?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2f7b936786af497697ce6994f652d236&ei=83

IANAL.

I wanted to read the details about these NCAA conservatorships.

Title 93 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 20 - Guardianship and Conservatorship
Article 4 - Conservatorship

I'm not seeing either athletics or NCAA mentioned anywhere.

As an anonymous Jackson Jambalaya commenter I don't have any sympathy for the Touhys.

Micheal Oher has just done more damage to the practice of adoption than David Berkowitz and Ted Bundy combined.

All kidding aside, both sides seem shady. Both the creepy, Ole Miss rah-rah family and the dumb football player.

Touhy: "We divided the money equally: Touhys 80%, Oher 20%."

Note to self, never do business with Sean Touhy.

At first I was going to say Oher has messed things up for the next poor but talented athlete who some rich Ole Miss booster might decide to "shower with their affection" to insure his enrollment with the Rebs. But on second thought the new NIL rules have eliminated the need for the Tuohy treatment. Now they can openly work a deal with the kid and pay him all the money he and his family needs. Eliminate all this bullshit.

There’s no way Oher was just being used by his high school coach and that coach’s friends to get the coach a better job and the friends a stud athlete at their alma mater, right? Where did that high school coach end up after Oher signed with Ole Miss?

I thought I had seen a few tidbits of what seems to be pertinent details in the past week or so. I do not know for a fact that either of these two thing are true, but I did see them on either the TV or internet in the past week or so.

#1: The Tuohy's, Mr. Oher, and Mr. Oher's mother appeared together in court in Shelby county to finalize the conservatorship when Mr. Oher was 18.

#2: The writer of the book, "The Blind Side", was a friend of the Tuohy's. He was approached by a Hollywood company that wanted to get the rights to the book with an offer in the neighborhood of a one time payment of $250K+ for lifetime rights to the story. That deal fell through when no studio could be found to buy the story. Then a Memphis friend of Mr. Tuohy, a local TV producer, offered the writer $250K plus 1% or 2% of the net profit for life, which is the deal the he accepted. The writer then split the offer, I believe its in the actual contract selling the story and rights, with 50% to himself and 50% to the Tuohy's and Oher, with them getting 10% each. The writer mentioned that his initial check for half of the $250K, $125K, was about $77K after taxes, but it was still the biggest check to him he had ever seen. The other %50 was sent to Mr. Tuohy in five different checks of 10to the four Tuohy's and Oher individually. Subsequently, royalty checks have come in and the same split was made. I thought I read where Mr. Tuohy said that since they haven't been talking for several years, he had been depositing Mr. Oher's checks into a trust that had been previously setup for Mr. Oher's daughter.

This is what I heard or read, but maybe I just dreamed it. I don't know.

Anyway, my point is, if I did hear what I thought I heard, both points #1 and #2 will or should have paper trails that proves their truth or not. Court reporter records, signed conservatorships, signed contracts, signed checks, bank deposit slips, bank records, etc... Also, how is it possible that 'Hollywood Accounting' could indicate a movie grossing $300M only made about a $10M profit?

Help me out. Need someone with Tennessee family law experience to chime in.

I thought you were never too old to be adopted. Does Tennessee not allow a family to adopt a person age 18 and over?

The conservatorship only makes sense to me if the Touhys didn't want Oher to have a child's claim on their estate.

Sean sold his business for $220,000,000.

Can he adopt me, please?

8/19/23 at 5:14 - exactly. And if these people thought they were also doing a good deed while getting Ole Miss a good football player, they were foolish and naive and willfully ignorant. There are ways to help people without bringing them into your home. This kind of stuff is what you get when people fall for the false ideology of equality.

Woke judges and juries in today's political (cultural) climate will distinguish between the Tuohy's "feel good" sales job they pulled off to the reality of their misrepresentation to purchase a young buck to play for their alma mater.

The Tuohy's are ending "their" conservatorship in preparation to weather the dark legal and public relations storm they have wrought upon themselves.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Ohers’ lawyers sold him a bill of goods-

August 19, 2023 at 10:53 PM, you have never read, or heard about Hollyweird accounting practices? They are legendary. Look in to it.

August 19, 2023 at 5:14 PM, and you are a self-righteous bigoted, judgmental hypocrite with no self recognition. Other than that, you are probably alright.

Hmm, it seems to me, that an 18 year old should have had his own representation. He hadn't been living with or supported by his mother in some time. Was he even present or just handed a piece of paper later to sign with only the explanation that he wouldn't have to waste his time with tiresome business and legal details and meetings?

Also, I'm surprised that the athletic department at Ole Miss wasn't involved. I know my alma mater goes out of their way to protect the legal rights and financial interests of their players ( it's something bragged about in recruiting) and has a long history of honorable legal representatives in the sports field who don't even charge full rates to help the athlete who is just starting out and they include the parents if the athlete wants them included. Not all of them have good parents who aren't hoping to cash in. The legal representatives are top in their field because the athletes see that they DO represent them honestly, especially after they see how they fare better in the long run than the pros who didn't have the best at their side.

At any rate, that the conservatorship would continue this long is inexplicable to me. And, giving it up now when it has little, or no value is hardly a reason to see the gesture as more than a publicity stunt.
He did, after all, make his grades at Ole Miss, or didn't he?
The only way at this point to know what to believe is when evidence is presented and those who were involved are sworn in under the penalty of perjury.

Simply put, Oher sold the rights to his story for $100k. He was legally an adult and at the time, the story was worth $0.

6:54 Are you saying the Tuohy's should not regard their children equally? False ideology? What God do you worship?

There seem to be a several people taking shots at the Touhys for working hard and becoming wealthy. I do not know the level of sincerity in the statements. Perhaps they are simply being silly or are poking at Ole Miss fans. I hope so, because if they are attempting to engage in class warfare, their class warfare is an indictment on their understanding of political science.
RMQ

Scrolling down through the minutia so I can ask: The Touhy's are asking that the conservatorship be ended. So has Oher. Help me understand why it's still in effect and what the advantage is to any of the parties for the conservatorship to exist all these years later.

My thoughts: The family helped him in public. If you are going to help someone don't boast about it.

Tomy Tuberville talking about the movie in a 2017 interview:

https://www.thewareaglereader.com/2017/07/tommy-tuberville-talks-netflix-mailbox-money-from-the-blind-side/

Does he have his facts straight?

Scrolling down through the minutia so I can ask: The Touhy's are asking that the conservatorship be ended. So has Oher. Help me understand why it's still in effect and what the advantage is to any of the parties for the conservatorship to exist all these years later.
August 20, 2023 at 4:21 PM

I'd imagine the TACIT understanding was, that the Touhys would continue the conservatorship, in order to protect Oher from the unscrupulous many who normally fleece professional athletes. They'd help him "manage" his assets and income.

It seems rather obvious that the Touheys did NOT do much watching-over or protecting or managing of Oher's wealth. One might conclude they did the opposite.

Nobody could overtly state that Oher NEEDED someone watching over him, since certain assumptions are implicit in such an arrangement, as to "why". And those assumptions are both unspeakable and unprintable (in the 21st Century, anyway).

Everybody's dancing-around, trying to avoid saying the unsayable. And that's why none of this makes any sense.

8:40 - what part of 4 Tuohys at 80% and 1 Oher at 20% is not a division of 5 equal parts?