Joel Goodson
- it's all ball bearings, nowadays
that's a shame:
College Sports (Basketball)
"If the NCAA has determined that five years of eligibility is the fair rule for college athletes, then athletes who would still be eligible but for completing four years of eligibility should not be deprived of the same educational, athletic, and NIL opportunities."
It makes you wonder how they come up with their rules and whether they even talk to the lawyers beforehand.
I give the NCAA a 20% shot of winning here (don't try and bet me though). The one area they seem to have some deference with the courts is eligibility, so my uninformed opinion is to give them a chance of prevailing.
When I was at certain large corporations which I won't name, the executives would tell the lawyers or consultants what the outcome they were expecting was. Then surprise, surprise, that's what they got, regardless of it's efficacy.
This a rule going forward. These people want it apply to them retroactively. It seems clear to me. Just because someone files a lawsuit and makes a claim it doesn't mean they are correct.
I get that the NCAA has historically gotten to be arbitrary and capricious with their labor, but it doesn't change that multiple judges (up through the supreme court) have reminded them that they do not get the final say.
Going to be another L for them. This one particularly self inflicted.
And to respond to Bucktown - the justification is what matters to the courts, especially in light of the many precedents against them. If the logic behind the rule is we get to change the rules because we said so, that's not very compelling.