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“He is a fantastic representative of our team and school,” Overholt said. “He volunteers for several community service activities: neighborhood cleanups, food drives, elementary school readings, youth camps, etc. Also, he is our school [Fellowship of Christian Athletes] representative and serves as a tremendous spiritual leader.”

It’s not just Elliott’s coach that sees the good he does. His teammate, senior Palmer Samuels, was not surprised when he heard Elliott was a finalist.

“Great person, great teammate and a great player,” Samuels said. “Type of guy you’d go to war with and never look back.”

Besides his football bubble, his friends appreciate what type of friend he is. Senior Owen Vest and Elliott have known each other since elementary school, but they became really good friends freshman year.

“He’s a very supportive and caring friend,” Vest said. “It does not shock me at all that he was nominated. He is a great guy and athlete.”

Another good friend, senior Chase Davis, described Elliott as a leader.

“He always tries to get people involved,” he said. “He leads people in the right way, and he is just a good presence to be around. He’s also super funny and just a good friend. Always someone you can talk to. If you have the pleasure to have him in your life, it makes life so much better.”

Who is Caleb Elliott? When Elliott was 8 years old, he started to realize others in the world around him were not as fortunate.

“I kind of started to understand, like, ‘Oh, we’re more fortunate than these people,’” Elliott said. “And we’re giving back, like that’s what giving back means. Then I started helping with things like food banks and stuff.” antitrust violations, including price discrimination and price fixing.

He credited his parents for continuing to help their community.

These 26 plaintiffs are suing Ticketmaster and filed a complaint with the L.A. County Superior Court Dec. 5, 2022.

“Ticketmaster’s service is not superior or reliable; the massive disaster of the Taylor Swift presale is evidence enough of this,” the lawsuit document read. “Ticketmaster does not charge high prices to give a better service, it charges higher prices because it has no real competition and wants to take every dollar it can from buyers.”

A second suit is underway with the Dolam Legal Group related to refunds that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ticketmaster only promised to refund shows that were permanently canceled. They have not refunded groups who were indefinitely postponed.

“Joe Berchtold, the president of Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation Entertainment, stated 90 percent of events were postponed rather than canceled,” Dolam Legal Group said on their website.

“Derek Hansen, the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit, claims to have tickets to see a rock band that cost him nearly $600. The concert has been indefinitely postponed, but he could not recover compensation for a show that he would likely not be able to see.”

Both of these suits are called class-action lawsuits.

“A class action [lawsuit] is a legal device where one person or group of people can sue on behalf of themselves and others who are similarly situated,” Jay Tidmarsh, Judge James J. Clynes, Jr., professor of law at the Notre Dame Law School, said via email. “The entire group of people with similar claims is called the class. The individuals who bring the suit are called the class representatives.”

Tidmarsh explained there are a few reasons why someone may enact a class action lawsuit. These reasons include: efficiency, so there aren’t multiples of the same lawsuit, money, since the case becomes attractive to a lawyer when money is involved according to Tidmarsh and the ability for plaintiffs to join in and make a case with a larger dollar amount than their individual cases would have permitted.

“If one million people are each cheated out of $1, no one will bother to sue, and the cheater gets away with cheating,” Tidmarsh said via email. “But if we can join all one million people into one class action, then we have a $1 million case, and it is worth suing.”

Contact Olivia Ground with comments at olivia. ground@bsu.edu or on Twitter @liv_ground_25