Buckle Up - NCAA Eligibility Case

[uofmman1122]

The Vanderbilt QB that exhausted his eligibility (through Juco) that's suing to be able to play next year has received a preliminary injunction to play. This is one step closer to a potential world where as long as you're enrolled in classes, you are eligible to play football.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1869509969823051968

 

[Lord Vigo]

What an absurdity.

 

[uofmman1122]

What an absurdity.

I agree, but I've always felt this way about college football as it exists right now (and has for most of my life):

People want to pretend college football is an academic endeavor while simultaneously allowing and encouraging it to be a semi-professional sport, and those two things cannot exist together without destroying one or the other. This is the logical conclusion to what college football has become, and I'm not talking about since the NIL, but since the early 80's and 90's when it grew into the financial behemoth that it is now.

 

[Griz til I die]

That’s such garbage. Move on with your life. Do you really wanna play College Football the rest of your life? The NCAA can’t regulate shit cause the courts strike down everything.

 

[HikeGlacier]

That’s such garbage. Move on with your life. Do you really wanna play College Football the rest of your life? The NCAA can’t regulate shit cause the courts strike down everything.

If you were getting paid a million a year to play college FB, you would stay as long as you could.

 

[Montanabob]

If you were getting paid a million a year to play college FB, you would stay as long as you could.

way better than the $40k for arena or the $60k for CFL.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

So the main argument is that his 2 years at JUCO should not count towards his NCAA eligibility since his JUCO is not a NCAA institution.

 

[uofmman1122]

So the main argument is that his 2 years at JUCO should not count towards his NCAA eligibility since his JUCO is not a NCAA institution.

Which then begs the question, why are athletes beholden to limits in eligibility at all? Here's one lawyer that thinks the barn door is wide open for a potentially successful legal challenge to any restrictions on eligibility, now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1869551386368881051

 

[Triwest]

I agree, but I've always felt this way about college football as it exists right now (and has for most of my life):

People want to pretend college football is an academic endeavor while simultaneously allowing and encouraging it to be a semi-professional sport, and those two things cannot exist together without destroying one or the other. This is the logical conclusion to what college football has become, and I'm not talking about since the NIL, but since the early 80's and 90's when it grew into the financial behemoth that it is now.

I made a comment many years ago that sports would stop being part of colleges and go minor league like baseball or major club sports not representing individual schools at all. I am hearing others involved in college sports around the country say the same thing.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

College athletics might just be getting broken enough that it is going to be difficult to really care anymore. It is close.

 

[poorgriz]

That's pretty crazy. So basically a kick ass college player could just make it a career and play college football at their college for 15-20 years making a million a year, and then retire from football comfortably, with three or four degrees. Sweet.

 

[Harm]

That's pretty crazy. So basically a kick ass college player could just make it a career and play college football at their college for 15-20 years making a million a year, and then retire from football comfortably, with three or four degrees. Sweet.

Right! What a wild ride right now.

 

[mthoopsfan]

I agree, but I've always felt this way about college football as it exists right now (and has for most of my life):

People want to pretend college football is an academic endeavor while simultaneously allowing and encouraging it to be a semi-professional sport, and those two things cannot exist together without destroying one or the other. This is the logical conclusion to what college football has become, and I'm not talking about since the NIL, but since the early 80's and 90's when it grew into the financial behemoth that it is now.

It’s much worse now with Portal and NIL.

 

[armonte]

Why move on in their lives when they can play a game, get more education than anyone thought possible
and in a lot of cases get paid more than most college graduates will make after graduation.

 

[uofmman1122]

It’s much worse now with Portal and NIL.

Right, but I almost view those as inevitable effects of how it's changed over the last 40 years. You can only keep pretending it isn't semi-pro sports for so long.

 

[mtgriz]

Why move on in their lives when they can play a game, get more education than anyone thought possible
and in a lot of cases get paid more than most college graduates will make after graduation.

And most importantly, rule as BMOC until the temples start to gray.

 

[footballdood]

I just figured at some point the professional college programs would move to scrap eligibility requirements all together, including having to be enrolled at the school. This would just hasten the move.

 

[mthoopsfan]

I'm all for some FBS schools' teams to move on and be professional, and the let the rest regroup and be normal college football teams without the distraction of the top half of FBS. This is ruining college football and perhaps basketball too.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Why move on in their lives when they can play a game, get more education than anyone thought possible
and in a lot of cases get paid more than most college graduates will make after graduation.

What education?

 

['68griz]

Why move on in their lives when they can play a game, get more education than anyone thought possible
and in a lot of cases get paid more than most college graduates will make after graduation.

But doesn’t letting one individual play for say, 12 years, prevent a bunch of others from ever having the opportunity to play at all. I think this is a wretched idea.