After being recruited to play football as a quarterback at the University of Miami, Bryan Fortay was unexpectedly overshadowed by another player, Gino Torretta, who wound up taking all the honors Fortay had been eyeing. As Miami coach Dennis Erickson told the National Law Journal, that's not uncommon: "You tell them they should be good players and beat another guy out, but a lot of times the other guys beat them out anyway. That's college football."

But Fortay, who transferred to New Jersey's Rutgers University—where his football career has also failed to blossom—obviously learned something at school. He's suing the University of Miami, claiming that its enticements and predictions of his success amounted to ironclad contracts, and that their failure to get him a pro football career, a Heisman Trophy and all the rest amounts to a breach of contract. His suit asks for $10 million.

Having given up on football, Fortay is now applying to law school.

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