College football summarized in one tweet

[Slick Manager of Champs]

I think SMF said that we might soon get to the point where the 4 years eligibility is challenged in court and overturned. I can see it happening.

 

[Richard A]

I think SMF said that we might soon get to the point where the 4 years eligibility is challenged in court and overturned. I can see it happening.

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Have ball will travel! The question becomes if you go to 4or 5 schools and you’re not close to graduating does this mean you still have eligibility? Another day another lawsuit on the horizon.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I think SMF said that we might soon get to the point where the 4 years eligibility is challenged in court and overturned. I can see it happening.

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All it's going to take is a player to sue for it. There is no chance, none, that the NCAA would win a case against a player suing for unlimited eligibility for the right to earn a living. The 4/5 year NCAA rule is an arbitrary number. What if a guy wants 10 degrees and to play until he's 40? He's still a college student and the NCAA is denying him millions. This will absolutely happen and will probably be the P4's ultimate reason for leaving the NCAA to set up their own collegiate professional football and basketball leagues with an Under 24 age requirement?

Well, what if a 25 year old player sues for the right to play in this new Under 24 pro league? The difference is that this is a private, professional league, "developmental" league who are able to make rules such as this.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

All it's going to take is a player to sue for it. There is no chance, none, that the NCAA would win a case against a player suing for unlimited eligibility for the right to earn a living. The 4/5 year NCAA rule is an arbitrary number. What if a guy wants 10 degrees and to play until he's 40? He's still a college student and the NCAA is denying him millions. This will absolutely happen and will probably be the P4's ultimate reason for leaving the NCAA to set up their own collegiate professional football and basketball leagues with an Under 24 age requirement?

Well, what if a 25 year old player sues for the right to play in this new Under 24 pro league? The difference is that this is a private, professional league, "developmental" league who are able to make rules such as this.

my only non-legal thought.....travel youth sports have U-8, U-12 tournaments that no one has challenged. Is it the pay factor that would prevent the NCAA/P4 from saying we are an U-24 league?

 

[jivecat]

my only non-legal thought.....travel youth sports have U-8, U-12 tournaments that no one has challenged. Is it the pay factor that would prevent the NCAA/P4 from saying we are an U-24 league?

Have you seen youth lacrosse? They stage it by graduation year. You have kids 2 years older playing against the kids who are properly aged. College coaches do not care, they just see a more “developed” player who has another 5 years of eligibility. You have 26 year old grad students playing the game at a collegiate level.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Have you seen youth lacrosse? They stage it by graduation year. You have kids 2 years older playing against the kids who are properly aged. College coaches do not care, they just see a more “developed” player who has another 5 years of eligibility. You have 26 year old grad students playing the game at a collegiate level.

Kids being literally 2 years older than their classmates is a major issue. I know that we are focused on "making sports fair" based on other reasons but no one says anything about a 12 year old playing against a 10 year old in the same grade. I wished there was an executive order which put rules in place to stop this "redshirting" of youth athletes. As I said in the other post, Baby Gronk will turn 20 a few days before HS graduation. Some of his classmates won't turn 18 for a couple months, in August. Come on now. A 26 month age gap in the same grade isn't fair. This is something that just about every youth athlete faces, not just 2 or 3 kids in the country doing it.

 

[razzaba]

One of my kids was “blessed” with a very late Dec birthday, which sucks for birth year sports. Always the youngest, without fail, and just naturally smaller regardless. Has to fight extra hard with speed and scrappiness.

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

I have been saying the one thing the courts cannot challenge if the NCAA and member institutions wanted to get a handle on this is to enforce academic standards and eligible and transferrable credits. Because where this is going, just moron is going to sue Michigan and ask why are you applying academic standards to me and not the entire athletic department?