NCAA Grants Extra Year of Eligibility to JUCO Transfers

[Krymsonman]

Saw this today on AL.com, but didn't see it here. The NCAA has granted an extra year of eligibility to any athletes who previously spent a year at a junior college or NAIA school. This is in response to the Diego Pavia deal. The NCAA says there were a number of other lawsuits filed or about to be filed, so they just went ahead and did this grant. The NCAA says they do plan to appeal the Pavia ruling, but won't block the other athletes if they want to come back. Pavia's argument was that playing in JC limited his NIL opportunities. For BAMA, this mean Justin Jefferson could come back for another year if he wanted to. This is just another step to the end of the world for college football.

 

[bryantdenny]

Seems like eventually there will be NO LIMITATIONS on eligibility and players will start playing well beyond 4 or 5 years.

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

Seems like eventually there will be NO LIMITATIONS on eligibility and players will start playing well beyond 4 or 5 years.

Eventually?

 

[Krymsonman]

Eventually?
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At least Rising is doing it because he's been injured so many times. Not that I agree with it, but how many season ending injuries does it take before you determine your body's not meant for football.

In Pavia's case, he's doing it strictly for the money, saying that playing college football is his best way to make a living. He won't get drafted, so I guess he has to keep milking the NIL tree. Is he not qualified to go get a regular job?

 

[M2J]

I'm not mad at it. I think eventually the NCAA will win that case and pretty soon because of NIL.... players will find some school somewhere to go to

 

[DrollTide]

Backup QBs hardest hit.

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

At least Rising is doing it because he's been injured so many times. Not that I agree it, but how many season ending injuries does it take before you determine your body's not meant for football.

In Pavia's case, he's doing it strictly for the money, saying that playing college football is his best way to make a living. He won't get drafted, so I guess he has to keep milking the NIL tree. Is he not qualified to go get a regular job?

Each, albeit for different reasons, is doing it because it is in his best interest to do so, and that interest does not appear to be to any degree (insert Stetson Bennet joke here) academic.

 

[mrusso]

Once they become "employees" why should there be limits? Are other state employees limited to 4-5 years?

 

[CB4]

Once they become "employees" why should there be limits? Are other state employees limited to 4-5 years?

I don’t even think the need to be employees will will impact it. The courts have already slapped the NCAA’s hand on NIL. They then slapped them in the face on restrictions on transfer, saying you can’t prevent/block transfers if a “normal” student can do it anytime they want to.

The NCAA is going to have a difficult position to say arbitrarily that a player only gets “4-5 years” because, just like Pavia's attorneys positioned it, a player playing for a university has a significantly greater opportunities to earn NIL revenues than someone that doesn’t. And this judge, and I’m afraid many others will as well, will see limits to eligibility as a conspiracy by the NCAA and the Universities to restrict those NIL opportunities- which this judge said would be a violation of anti-trust laws.

Heck, it may turn out the NCAA may only be able to say you must be a student “in good standing” to play. Can you image some 30 year old guy working on his third degree at a school lining up against a 17 year old freshman?

You are absolutely correct though. The only way these programs can get any reasonable control is to make them employees.Then eligibility issues are moot. But then you have Title IX and equal opportunity issues across all sports to deal with.

The NCAA and college sports are in a world of hurt.