re: This coming back from “NFL” to CFB is a ONE TIME THING. Chill the F out.

hey dont make reasonable posts we're going full coon arse with kiffin

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This coming back from “NFL” to CFB is a ONE TIME THING. Chill the F out.

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If you think this is the only hurdle that lawyers and agents are going to challenge... then I have some beachfront property in Colorado you might be interested in. DM me.

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What will stop 3rd and 4th yr players going to the draft, not making a team, and trying to comeback for remaining eligibility?

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I would think that, moving forward, if guys are leaving before their eligibility is up, it's because they will be drafted or their paycheck isn't that great in college.

But still, some kid will fight for a 6th year regardless of the 5 for 5 and some judge will let the kid stay.

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No, they didn't

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Multiple judges in multiple states disagree with you

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Then folks took the Ncaa to court because they are entitled little crybabies

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Not exactly. They were never given the choice to play their 5th year OR go pro. The NCAA knew they screwed up with this group of players.

I can't believe after everything that's happened over the last 30 years, someone is defending the NCAA.

When these guys entered college, the rule was 4 seasons of competition within a 5-year eligibility window. All the players in question used those four seasons because that's what the NCAA rules allowed. So under the rules in place when they started, they had no 5th year to lean on. They gave up NOTHING to go pro. They were done and took the next step.

Then the NCAA changed the rule. The new system gives players five seasons of competition within five years, but here's the catch: the NCAA specifically excluded the 2022 class because those players had already exhausted their four seasons under the old system. The didn't like this answer and cried about it to sympathetic state courts. Those rulings are now under appeal in Federal Court.

So they absolutely were not given a choice between “play a 5th year” and “go pro.” Despite what the courts say, they never had the 5th year option to begin with.

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Favorite team: LSU

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THEY JUST WANT MONEY FOR JERSEYS & AUTOGRAPHS!

Chill the F out!

People aren't worried so much about these 40 or so players. They're, of course, concerned that it's simply more precedent for the next batch with another new "compelling" reason, like predatory agent etc etc etc...

Basketball fans are worried it's going to turn into a shite show with the extra months to prepare.

That argument is a false equivalence. The 2022 players are different because the NCAA subsequently changed the eligibility framework. The question isn't whether everyone who ever played deserves another year; it's whether 2022 players were unfairly caught between the old and new systems while similarly situated players received five years.

A player from 1998 can't reasonably argue that a rule change 28 years later retroactively gives him another season. If the 2022 players prevail, it doesn't automatically create a right for every former player—it addresses the specific transition between two eligibility systems.

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You can argue the NCAA's transition rule was lawful. But you can't use the old rule to prove the new rule's exclusion was lawful—that's the very question the courts are deciding.

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The NCAA sets the rules for NCAA institutions and players. When these guys entered college, those rules allowed 4 seasons, not 5. The NCAA later changed the rules and excluded this class after they graduated. The NCAA absolutely has the authority to make and change their eligibility rules. Whether you (or the courts) think that transition was fair is a completely different argument.