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Precedent - Chambliss & NCAA

Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:14 am
Posted by DeltaDoc
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:14 am
First off, on a personal level, I’m happy for Chambliss. He and his family seem like great people and he’ll make life changing money this year.

As a precedent though, if you look at the NCAA rationale, he doesn’t meet the traditional criteria for another year.

In any other court in America outside of Mississippi, the petition would be denied on the merits.

As to precedent, let’s say a kid completed eligibility (maybe redshirt then four years). If said player files a petition for another year, then another year, then another in a friendly court and gets a court ruling, what can be done to stop it?

Essentially, maybe far fetched, Ole Miss just opened the door for direct competition with the NFL. As long as a kid is enrolled, and as long as they can get a local court to rule favorably on eligibility, they could play college ball for 15 years.

Yesterday was nearly as big for college athletes as unmitigated payment and transfer.
Posted by Rip Torner
Member since Jul 2023
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:18 am to
Correct, the goofballs at Ole Miss fail to grasp this and it’s also why the judge spent over an hour trying to justify it.
Posted by Ourichie
Member since Dec 2017
54 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:20 am to
Exactly, and at Oklahoma, Owen Heinecke was denied an extra year because he played three lacross games as Ohio State
Posted by sorantable
Member since Dec 2008
54190 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:22 am to
quote:

Essentially, maybe far fetched, Ole Miss just opened the door for direct competition with the NFL.

We don’t care.
Posted by olemissfan26
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:24 am to
He filed to have 1 year granted and backdate a medical redshirt.. not to have permission to play 15 years.

No one is going to be able to play college football for 15 years because Trinidad was granted an injunction on a disputed medical redshirt.
Posted by Ourichie
Member since Dec 2017
54 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:26 am to
quote:

olemissfan26
He filed to have 1 year granted and backdate a medical redshirt.. not to have permission to play 15 years.

No one is going to be able to play college football for 15 years because Trinidad was granted an injunction on a disputed medical redshirt.


Ask the player at Montana that just got his 9th year granted
Posted by olemissfan26
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Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:27 am to
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Ask the player at Montana that just got his 9th year granted


He was granted his 9th year because of the precedent sent in the Trinidad injunction yesterday?

Or was the system broken well before the NCAA inconsistency enforced who gets extra years?
Posted by DeltaDoc
The Delta
Member since Jan 2008
16514 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:29 am to
Clearly the point went over your head
Posted by Sooner a Reb
Maryland
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:32 am to
Apparently OU didn't know it was as easy as filing in a state court and getting a friendly judge.
Posted by Murph4HOF
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:34 am to
quote:

Apparently OU didn't know it was as easy as filing in a state court and getting a friendly judge.
Lol what dumb arse dirt burglars.
Posted by LARancher1991
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2015
2071 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:35 am to
Seems you failed to grasp the point and concept (not surprised). To lay it out more simply for you the precedent has now been set that an NCAA ruling carries very little weight as far as eligibility is concerned. If you get before a court with a friendly judge, like the Ole Miss graduate judge in this case, it's feasible that a player can be granted more years of eligibility well past their 4th or 5th year.
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:38 am to
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
54814 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:39 am to
the SEC is hell bent on pushing the NCAA as far as they can
Tenn
Bama
Ole Miss

It's time for the SEC to set it's own rules and if you don't like it go find another conference and another pay out from another league
Posted by bamabaseballsec
Member since Dec 2020
3652 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:39 am to
Maybe if actual students sue their school for athletic academic double standards or students form club football teams. If actual alum started caring about the real students game it’d upset the system. I don’t know if anything can stop it at this point but I imagine it’ll take something unorthodox
Posted by lsufball19
Franklin, TN
Member since Sep 2008
71741 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:42 am to
quote:

He was granted his 9th year because of the precedent sent in the Trinidad injunction yesterday?

Or was the system broken well before the NCAA inconsistency enforced who gets extra years?

If getting a medical waiver is as easy as having a letter written 4 years later from your own coach that you didn't play because you were sick, then yeah there has certainly been a precedent set that the bar for a medical waiver is ridiculously low at this point. Catastrophic injuries that end your season are no longer the general threshold. Yesterday we had a kid who testified he fully participated in all practices and was able to manage his symptoms with OTC meds, yet that was enough to get a medical hardship waiver. And there's really nothing the NCAA can even do to impose any regulations when it's impossible to enforce them in front of local judges.

So yes, yesterdays ruling opened the door for a lot. A kid who doesn't play because he's buried on the depth chart can simply apply for medical waivers and claim he had an illness with a letter from his coach. That seems to have been the standard set by the ruling, that the NCAA has a duty to make sure kids can play as much as they can, not have eligibility guidelines that are enforceable.
Posted by Murph4HOF
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Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:45 am to
Let's pretend for a minute that the Ole Miss alum judge didn't already have his mind made up:

The NCAA admitted they didn’t follow their own procedures for evaluating his Medical redshirt claim. This case wasn't about how strong Chambliss's case was but more about how weak the NCAA's case was.
Posted by DeltaDoc
The Delta
Member since Jan 2008
16514 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:53 am to
You know that’s not true.
Posted by KwoodTiger
Member since Aug 2011
1108 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:53 am to
The NCAA should ban OM from NCAA sanctioned postseason play as long as they have a player playing that is ineligible according to NCAA rules.

Sure OM can pay him per judge/hearing…separate issue.

But, as a member institution of the NCAA, the NCAA should grow some balls and tell anyone that is playing players that the NCAA has said is ineligible that they are disallowed from participating in NCAA sanctioned events.
Posted by Murph4HOF
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Member since Sep 2019
17959 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 10:59 am to
quote:

You know that’s not true.
In your opinion, what was the NCAA's best piece of evidence or their best witness?

Imma hang up and listen, Pawl...
Posted by Murph4HOF
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Member since Sep 2019
17959 posts
Posted on 2/13/26 at 11:00 am to
quote:

The NCAA should ban OM from NCAA sanctioned postseason play as long as they have a player playing that is ineligible according to NCAA rules.
Low IQ football fan doesn't even know the NCAA doesn't control the CFP.
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