In summer 2004, the family who inspired the hit movie 'The Blind Side' became concerned they were at risk of running afoul of NCAA rules.
FILE - Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher sits on the beach during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Baltimore, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. Michael Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Monday in a Tennessee probate court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago.
Oher could have rendered this issue moot had he spurned interest from Ole Miss and accepted a scholarship from LSU, Tennessee or one of numerous other major-conference programs that offered. Instead, the 6-foot-4, 344-pound manchild kept listing Ole Miss among his top choices even as he began to narrow his options.
“Sean and Leigh Anne have made an extraordinary amount of money in the restaurant business,” the statement continued. “The notion that a couple worth hundreds of millions of dollars would connive to withhold a few thousand dollars in profit participation payments from anyone — let alone from someone they loved as a son — defies belief."
“I prayed about my choice a lot because there didn't seem to be a clear-cut sense of one being a good school and another being a bad school,” he wrote. “I felt like wherever I chose to go would be a good decision.” Multiple family attorneys in Tennessee told Yahoo Sports that the advice Sean says he received was incorrect and the Tuohys could have adopted Oher at 18 as long as they had his consent. As Nashville-based attorney Lisa Collins put it, “Adult adoption is allowed in Tennessee. It’s been the same law since I started practicing 30 years ago.”
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