Link: Former Tide Player Charles Bediako Sues NCAA (Injunction) to Return to Bama

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014770640478203911

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014770864982528068

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014771115885781043

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014771604945854668

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014772011097088172

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014772603257331929

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014772721213636992

 

[CrimsonNagus]

I love it, go get'em coach!

All pros are eligible or none. This special treatment for people on the other side of the world ends now.

Let's light some fires as we run through the halls. Roll Tide!

 

[CajunCrimson]

I have a question --

Is a G League Contract an NBA Contract?
And is a G League Game an NBA Game?

Because that seems to be tripping some people up...

 

[jashleyren2]

I think I understand now.

Allowing older players, who maybe have stepped into the realm of pro sports in other countries, but not in the US, is ok for other conferences. Not for the SEC. Got it.

Is it the Big 10 making the most noise right now, or is it other members of the SEC barking the loudest? Big 10 = Rules for thee, but not for me.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I think I understand now.

Allowing older players, who maybe have stepped into the realm of pro sports in other countries, but not in the US, is ok for other conferences. Not for the SEC. Got it.

Is it the Big 10 making the most noise right now, or is it other members of the SEC barking the loudest? Big 10 = Rules for thee, but not for me.

Kentucky gets to do it, but no one else in the SEC. Their coach is also complaining while also having a pro euro player.

 

[JDCrimson]

Im under no illusions that Alabama is hated within the halls of the NCAA, they tried to kill us and we only came back stronger.

The bias within the NCAA eligibility department is extreme and certainly has Midwest and Northeast bend to it. UConn Syracuse, Purdue, Illinois, even Tennessee has done this in the past.

They just decided to buy themselves a European pro-roster and and had someone on the inside of the NCAA rubber stamp their eligibility.

 

[CajunCrimson]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014806231379059190

 

[dayhiker]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2014806231379059190

I didn't watch the video but the translation seems to be, don't hate the player, hate the game.

 

[CaliforniaTide]

I have a question --

Is a G League Contract an NBA Contract?
And is a G League Game an NBA Game?

Because that seems to be tripping some people up...

To me, yes they're NBA contracts - they're signed with the parent team that owns the G-League club.

Doesn't seem any different to me than MiLB contracts, or professional soccer contracts with multiple age levels of a team.

 

[CB4]

Here’s the thing from all these hypocritical whiners: so Nate Oats and Byrne are supposed to climb on top of the “moral high ground” and die on that hill because “this isn’t what college basketball should be about”? Meanwhile other teams we have played or will play have rosters loaded with essentially (at the very least) semi professional players in their 20’s that have played in Europe? Golden and Mini Pearl need to shut the heck up. Same for Barnes and Pope. They have all leaned into the older euro league semi pro transfer.

But….Alabama is suppose to “plant the moral flag”?

Asked Dabo how the “I’m not using the transfer portal” thing workout for him? He started getting his hat handed to him.

 

[ReturnToGlory]

Here’s the thing from all these hypocritical whiners: so Nate Oats and Byrne are supposed to climb on top of the “moral high ground” and die on that hill because “this isn’t what college basketball should be about”? Meanwhile other teams we have played or will play have rosters loaded with essentially (at the very least) semi professional players in their 20’s that have played in Europe? Golden and Mini Pearl need to shut the heck up. Same for Barnes and Pope. They have all leaned into the older euro league semi pro transfer.

But….Alabama is suppose to “plant the moral flag”?

Asked Dabo how the “I’m not using the transfer portal” thing workout for him? He started getting his hat handed to him.

Yep. All these coaches on the moral high ground could've also decided they weren't going to pay players outrageous money or not take players from the portal because it wasn't good for the game. But they didn't. They wanted to win/not be in the unemployment line.

 

[22Musso22]

 

[CajunCrimson]

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The point?

 

[CajunCrimson]

Because I’m in that mood:

If Bediako had gone from Juco to Draft, then G-League, would he be able to play?

Reason I ask has more to do with Diego Pavia than anything. As the NCAA said the Juco years don’t count as part of the window.

As the NCAA dances from reason to reason and rule to rule, this is going to impressively blow up in their face.

Because they say College players can’t come back from draft. But everyone else can. And euro players can go to college as old as they want to, because they don’t have college teams there. But they have professional club teams that are like college teams. And they don’t count against them.

But if a player takes college classes, that’s the line that says they can’t play college ball any longer after going into draft.

Back to Juco! If Jucos don’t count as college anymore, then a kid could go to Juco, get drafted, not get offered a contract, go to Europe, play 2-3 years, go G-league for another 1-2, then get 4 years in college?

And Chuck can’t? lol. This is why this has to happen.