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SI: New NCAA eligibility requirements could impact recently-committed EuroLeague players
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:20 pm
SIAP (I searched).
Looks like the NCAA might be trying to crack down on NBA and EuroLeague players by enacting eligibility rules tied to prior compensation, i.e. some form of "amateurism."
Who knows if they have the agency or the cojones to pull this off prior to the '26–'27 season, but it's certainly something to watch.
Looks like the NCAA might be trying to crack down on NBA and EuroLeague players by enacting eligibility rules tied to prior compensation, i.e. some form of "amateurism."
Who knows if they have the agency or the cojones to pull this off prior to the '26–'27 season, but it's certainly something to watch.
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The guidance, distributed May 8 and obtained recently by Sports Illustrated, lays out updated pre-enrollment eligibility requirements largely surrounding compensation and professional team involvement. How aggressively the requirements will be enforced is unclear, but they lay the groundwork for the NCAA to push back significantly on professional players in Europe and other top international leagues enrolling in college.
In part, the guidelines state that prospective student-athletes who “entered an agreement with, competed on or received compensation from a team that participates in a league with minimum compensation that exceeds actual and necessary expenses” will not have their college eligibility reinstated. The document lists MLB, NBA, NFL, Premier League and WNBA as examples of such leagues, but other top basketball leagues globally could also qualify.
The EuroLeague, widely considered the top professional league in the world outside of the NBA, has a collective bargaining agreement with a minimum remuneration of approximately $58,000 net (post-tax) for first-year players in the league, almost assuredly exceeding the NCAA’s guidelines.
In recent weeks, several active EuroLeague players committed to college programs for the 2026–27 season, including Quinn Ellis (St. John’s), Saliou Niang (LSU), Márcio Santos (LSU) and Mantas Rubštavicius (Auburn). Each agreed to seven-figure deals between NIL and revenue share with their new colleges, according to sources familiar with their recruitments.
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Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:23 pm to paperwasp
It's more likely that an unambiguous hard "5 years to play 5"rule will be implemented.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:24 pm to paperwasp
“We see you Will Wade. frick you”
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:28 pm to LSU Patrick
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It's more likely that an unambiguous hard "5 years to play 5"rule will be implemented
Wouldn't doubt it.
Age certainly has to be a factor when 18-year-old freshmen are playing a team of 24-year-old former professionals.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:34 pm to paperwasp
Tell that to Indiana.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:35 pm to AHM21
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“We see you Will Wade. frick you”
Yep. It's just Will Wade..
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Take a minute to go check out Florida's basketball team which is basically half foreigners who are in their 20's.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:36 pm to LSU Patrick
the ones announced have already been cleared
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:39 pm to LSU Patrick
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Tell that to Indiana
Yes, to me it applies across all of collegiate sports.
People always find a way to get an advantage.
Having a team of guys as old or older than a professional team is one way that's currently en vogue.
(The Hoosiers were almost the same average age as the Green Bay Packers.)
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:42 pm to paperwasp
I got absolutely bludgeoned by LSU fans for saying this was at the top of the NCAA’s priority list and that they had told coaches not to do this shite. Absolutely crucified for even suggesting it.
I was only half joking when I said Wade had gone all in on Europros only because he was told he couldn’t do it.
I was only half joking when I said Wade had gone all in on Europros only because he was told he couldn’t do it.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:43 pm to TigerLunatik
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basically half foreigners who are in their 20's
When we played Illinois last year, they had a pre-taped segment during the game joking about how one player on their team spoke English.
On the court they communicated with each other in Serbian, I think.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:45 pm to nicholastiger
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the ones announced have already been cleared
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:47 pm to TigerLunatik
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Take a minute to go check out Florida's basketball team which is basically half foreigners who are in their 20's.
That would require the poster Another Huge Melt to not obsess over LSU. That wont happen.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:52 pm to captdalton
Based on precedent, I find it highly unlikely that RJ Luis will be cleared.
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LSU stirred up the college basketball world on Tuesday.
The program reportedly signed former St. John’s star wing RJ Luis to the roster after he declared for the 2025 NBA Draft. College basketball fans and some college pundits have bemoaned the fact coach Will Wade is signing a player who wants to return to the NCAA after signing an NBA contract with the Utah Jazz.
Luis will likely have to file a lawsuit to gain college eligibility.
“The NCAA has not and will not grant eligibility to any prospective or returning student-athletes who have signed an NBA contract (including a two-way contract),” NCAA president Charlie Baker said in a statement in December.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:58 pm to LSUgrad88
It was more of a message to anyone reading the thread. AHM is alright by me. He's just having fun.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 3:03 pm to captdalton
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I got absolutely bludgeoned by LSU fans for saying this was at the top of the NCAA’s priority list and that they had told coaches not to do this shite. Absolutely crucified for even suggesting it.
You follow all LSU sports, you post incessantly about LSU, you trash LSU coaches daily, you drink too much, complain about officiating, and are now embracing a victimhood mentality.
Are you becoming an LSU fan?
Posted on 5/22/26 at 3:04 pm to paperwasp
I wonder if we’ll get any home cooking in the courts like they do in Miss.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 3:14 pm to captdalton
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I got absolutely bludgeoned by LSU fans for saying this was at the top of the NCAA’s priority list and that they had told coaches not to do this shite. Absolutely crucified for even suggesting it.
It was distributed on May 8th and coaches are still recruiting these guys. Where is your outrage for the other coaches?
Posted on 5/22/26 at 3:16 pm to TigerLunatik
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It was more of a message to anyone reading the thread
Posted on 5/22/26 at 3:26 pm to TigerLunatik
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Where is your outrage for the other coaches?
I have repeatedly said the system is broken. I didn’t agree with Oats trying to bring back Bediako, and in hindsight it looks like an even worse idea.
But as far as I know, only one coach this week has announced 2/3 of his roster is 22-25 year old Europros.
Feel free to please point them out. We don’t have fans from all those other schools spiking the football in our faces and celebrating their foreigners, so I am probably not even aware of some of them. I do think a lot of coaches are going to have a reckoning in terms of overseas playera with some of new rules coming.
It wouldn’t have been as bad if you LSU fans would not have spiked the football so hard this week.
But it may be a good thing. Wade and LSU have in effect told the NCAA to STTDB. That may spur the NCAA to act more quickly than normal.
On another note have you rebuked all the LSU fans who are celebrating LSU’s Europros after condemning Alabama and Bediako? You have said repeatedly how much you hate hypocrisy. I have been keeping an eye out for them, but I may have missed those posts.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 3:36 pm to captdalton
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We don’t have fans from all those other schools spiking the football in our faces and celebrating their foreigners, so I am probably not even aware of some of them. I do think a lot of coaches are going to have a reckoning in terms of overseas playera with some of new rules coming.
It wouldn’t have been as bad if you LSU fans would not have spiked the football so hard this week.
You personally participated in multiple threads talking shite about how no one wanted to play for Will Wade and now you're whining about LSU fans "spiking the football" in your face when players commit?
Wow. Just wow.
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