This settlement was seen as a contributing factor among many others in the demise of the venerable "Saturday Evening Post" six years later. Both Butts and Bryant had sued for $10 million each. Bryant settled for $300,000. In 1986, Professor James Kirby of the University of Tennessee School of Law published "Fumble: Bear Bryant, Wally Butts and the Great College Football Scandal", which argued that the courts had made the wrong decision. Kirby had been the Southeastern Conference's official observer at the trial.