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Posted on 8/27/26 at 3:37 pm to ManBearSharkReb
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The court can’t force a school to take a player. This is fricking retarded.
Why post if you can't even phrase your argument to reflect the reality? Which school is the court trying to force to take a player? Is the court forcing Ole Miss to take someone?
Posted on 8/27/26 at 3:49 pm to OleVaught14
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Not sure how the NCAA can be held in contempt here - I don't think they actually have any control over what rules an individual conference does or doesn't pass...
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know either. But, the angle in here seems to be that (1) the SEC and other conferences are making up new policies in haste and clearly in response to legal wins against the NCAA. (2) The SEC and members are NCAA institutions. (3) Conferences have never had carte blanche authority to write whatever policies they want. The ACC for instance can't come up with a policy prohibiting Asian athletes from competing. Any policy has to stand up to legal challenges.
Posted on 8/27/26 at 3:52 pm to clamdip
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The ACC for instance can't come up with a policy prohibiting Asian athletes from competing. Any policy has to stand up to legal challenges.
Of course. But an Asian athlete wouldn't sue the NCAA to force them to change this ACC rule - they would sue the ACC.
Same thing here - if these athletes are upset with SEC, Big 10, conference rules they need to sue those conferences.
Posted on 8/27/26 at 3:56 pm to tigerskin
The NCAA could've taken care of half of this mess by just letting the 2022 guys play and instituting the rules going forward to future classes.
What Kentucky is going to argue is that Mitchell meets all of the other criteria (didn't sign a contract, wasn't on a professional roster, didn't declare early for the NBA Draft, etc) and didn't enter the portal because he assumed he no longer had eligibility (5 for 5 rule didn't pass until after the fact).
The TRO that was granted here in Kentucky re-opened the portal for entry for a brief period of time for those players. And that is the point that he (and the others in the lawsuit here) entered.
What Kentucky is going to argue is that Mitchell meets all of the other criteria (didn't sign a contract, wasn't on a professional roster, didn't declare early for the NBA Draft, etc) and didn't enter the portal because he assumed he no longer had eligibility (5 for 5 rule didn't pass until after the fact).
The TRO that was granted here in Kentucky re-opened the portal for entry for a brief period of time for those players. And that is the point that he (and the others in the lawsuit here) entered.
This post was edited on 8/27/26 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/27/26 at 4:02 pm to OleVaught14
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Of course. But an Asian athlete wouldn't sue the NCAA to force them to change this ACC rule - they would sue the ACC.
Same thing here - if these athletes are upset with SEC, Big 10, conference rules they need to sue those conferences.
I think the lawyer in the OP would say, if we continue to use my imperfect example: "The NCAA tried to outlaw Asian players, and lost in court. The ACC, a member institution of NCAA, then decided to outlaw Asians. That's in direct defiance of the legal decision, and as a 'NCAA affiliate', they will have to stand down on their policy. And it's the NCAA's role to make them stand down."
I don't know if a judge will see it that way, though.
Posted on 8/27/26 at 4:07 pm to OleVaught14
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Of course. But an Asian athlete wouldn't sue the NCAA to force them to change this ACC rule - they would sue the ACC.
Same thing here - if these athletes are upset with SEC, Big 10, conference rules they need to sue those conferences.
I don't think the athletes can sue the conferences in question here, because the conferences have no rules vs the athletes playing. They have rules vs member schools playing the athletes.
So in my mind, the athletes have to sue the NCAA for colluding with its member conferences to block them from playing, despite the TRO's that are in place that prohibit the NCAA from blocking competition. Obviously, the more conferences that participate, I would assume that case gets easier for the athletes to make.
That still seems like quite the long shot to me though.
Posted on 8/27/26 at 4:10 pm to tigerskin
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Kentucky lawsuit now accusing NCAA of contempt of court
But but, it's only LSU
Arkansas just filed TRO for two players today 
This post was edited on 8/27/26 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 8/27/26 at 4:16 pm to SidewalkTiger
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I don't think the athletes can sue the conferences in question here, because the conferences have no rules vs the athletes playing. They have rules vs member schools playing the athletes.
If it comes to charges of collusion, that may be a distinction without a difference.
This post was edited on 8/27/26 at 4:19 pm
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