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re: Todd Golden: Doesn't matter if Bediako plays, we'll beat them anyways
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:33 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:33 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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That’s fine, but it still fails to address his two other glaring barriers to eligibility. Even if they can successfully argue that one point, it doesn’t just all of a sudden render all other eligibility requirements null and void.
The other two are:
1. NCAA drawing the line at NBA/G League contract
instead of, say, the line being drawn at regular G League or regular NBA contract or any professional basketball contract (as per their own statement on the case).
2. He enrolled in college instead of going professional first.
I just can't see the NCCA successfully arguing in court that European professional basketball players can be 23 year old freshman with no issue regardless of having been int NBA draft or making tons of money in Europe, but a player who chooses college initially, enters the draft and goes undrafted and tries to make for a 2 years can't.
Not any of these players should likely be eligible - but the lines the NCAA has tried to draw seem untenable in court. They seem exactly how they're described in the case: "arbitrary and capricious".
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Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:39 pm to wm72
You’re forgetting the pesky little bylaw that separate from these, that once you do go to college, you cannot declare for a pro draft and sign a pro contract for r agent contract and retain eligibility in that sport. Regardless of everything else, he will not pass that eligibility requirement.
This post was edited on 1/23/26 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:42 pm to ColoradoAg
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NCAA should simply say Alabama forfeits any game in which he plays. Hold them out of the tournament if they continue to push the issue. This isn't football ...
They can’t really. The TRO basically tied their hands until it is up and a court case is actually heard.
I don’t know what happens if they use any of the other eligibility laws that he is in violation of to rule him ineligible, but this specific one if they acted on it, they’d be in violation of the restraining order.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:49 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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You’re forgetting the pesky little bylaw that separate from these, that once you do go to college, you cannot declare for a pro draft
That's actually number #2 on my list.
It's the one this case is the first I know of to go after and it's big.
It's the one I'm saying above that the NCAA will need to argue doesn't punish players who choose to pursue college instead of pro ball in Europe at 18 years old in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:56 pm to Summer of Jimbo
If you are allowed to it is not cheating at all...
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:12 pm to wm72
That’s not their ultimate argument, but if it turns to that, will probably be a failing argument since every player is afforded the same choice and treated unilaterally equal. Since all players have been denied reinstatement of eligibility for leaving college and going pro (to any league not just NBA) that can’t really be proven to be unfairly applied.
The only way they have to prove unfairness is based on how much each player earned, but that won’t actually change bylaw 12.2.1.2. The fairness of that bylaw is why there is the monetary requirement, which there are cases of European players denied because they made too much money. At one point it was roughly based around what a college athletes gets with scholarship, board, food, etc. now with NIL that amount changes some and absolutely needs further clarification by ncaa. However, that doesn’t change the fairness of deciding to leave college vs never going. All players are treated equally under those guidelines. Hinging on a court decided that the NCAA is treating a player unfairly because the choice they made didn’t work out the way they hoped is not going to get very far.
The only way they have to prove unfairness is based on how much each player earned, but that won’t actually change bylaw 12.2.1.2. The fairness of that bylaw is why there is the monetary requirement, which there are cases of European players denied because they made too much money. At one point it was roughly based around what a college athletes gets with scholarship, board, food, etc. now with NIL that amount changes some and absolutely needs further clarification by ncaa. However, that doesn’t change the fairness of deciding to leave college vs never going. All players are treated equally under those guidelines. Hinging on a court decided that the NCAA is treating a player unfairly because the choice they made didn’t work out the way they hoped is not going to get very far.
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