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Big case today- athlete eligibility - Pavia vs NCAA

I've contended for years this will all end up with a players union and collective bargaining. This is the type of ruling that could push it over the edge as it would be a stipulation NCAA and leagues would require. If the NFL can negotiate a minimum years removed from high school, college sure as **** can negotiate a maximum.

With that, NIL, transfer portal, and scholarship additions, it's just too much to control and not nearly an even playing field. They would also likely argue it's a safety issue with 28 year olds playing vs 17-18 years olds.
 
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CreativeCane said:
I've contended for years this will all end up with a players union and collective bargaining. This is the type of ruling that could push it over the edge as it would be a stipulation NCAA and leagues would require. If the NFL can negotiate a minimum years removed from high school, college sure as **** can negotiate a maximum.

With that, NIL, transfer portal, and scholarship additions, it's just too much to control and not nearly an even playing field. They would also likely argue it's a safety issue with 28 year olds playing vs 17-18 years olds.
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Per your last sentence, isn't that why the NFL has the 3 year policy so you can't get to the league too early and get busted up by grown men?!?!
 
Colombie said:
College football is changing. We are in an NIL and Transfer Portal era. Grown men have the right to make money and play college athletics as long as they are in good standing and educating themselves. I see no problem with it.
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Lets take this idiotic take even further. What about high school? Can I just keep failing 12th grade in perpetuity so that I can remain the star high school QB, so long as Im getting some nil money?

**** it, my pee wee coach needs a linebacker, he said he will buy me a 12 pack for each childs neck i break during a tackle.
 
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I seriously doubt this is gonna happen. The implications would go far beyond guys playing in college til their 30s. You would essentially be separating college football from the universities entirely.
 
Arehel said:
We dealt with that in Canadian university football several years ago when I played (i.e., between 205 to 2012) the winning team at the time had an average age of 27 years old.

At the time the rule was you can use your 5 years of uni eligibility whenever, but the clock starts the moment you enroll. So if you enrolled when you were 25 you can play until you are 30. This was beneficial to Western Canadian since there was an still is CJFL (Canadian Junior Football League) which players can play until they are 25 years old, this is not connected to any school, it was a privately run "grassroots" league.

The rule since then has changed and now its you have 7 years to play 5 and the clock starts once you graduate from high school or after 2 years of CEGEP (Quebec Junior College which starts in grade 12, their high school ends in grade 11).

That even out the playing field and made high school football a lot stronger and focused the attention back to developmental football as well as recruiting high school players again.
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This guy played for 1800 plus years and you are worried about the too short Samoan?
 
404Usernamenotfound said:
Lets take this idiotic take even further. What about high school? Can I just keep failing 12th grade in perpetuity so that I can remain the star high school QB, so long as Im getting some nil money?

**** it, my pee wee coach needs a linebacker, he said he will buy me a 12 pack for each childs neck i break during a tackle.
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I do not know how you interpreted getting an education, keeping good standing/ GPA and futher educating yourself as " failing 12th grade in perpetuity."

I guess that is an intelligent take that just flies way over my head.
 
Does this require being enrolled full-time and passing classes? I can sort of understand letting a student-athlete play for as long as he is a full time student. If he wants to go to law school then medical school and play for 7 more years, then good luck to him.
 
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rsa coral gables said:
been saying it for a decade, one day college football will be divorced from academics and it will be a pro club like soccer clubs in europe.
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Would much prefer that model than the franchise model we have with our professional leagues and the fake student-athkete model we have in FBS and FCS
 
Yoyo423 said:
www.sportico.com

Diego Pavia, NCAA to Dispute House Settlement in Eligibility Hearing

The hearing concerns the NCAA’s appeal of a ruling last December to grant Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia a preliminary injunction to play this fall.
www.sportico.com www.sportico.com

The consequences of this case can be huge..Pavia is fighting for unlimited eligibility. The NCAA says the house settlement agrees to keep eligibility 5 years to play 4.

Not sure what college football will look like if Pavia wins.

"Pavia is a good example of a player who might want to remain a college athlete for as long as he can. Listed at 6-foot, Pavia would be relatively short for an NFL quarterback, who, USA Today has estimated, has an average height of 6-foot-3. But he has excelled for the Commodores and, now in his mid-20s, might be in his peak athletic years. Pavia is also knowledgeable at reading college defenses and has acquired other skills that come along with game experience. In June, Pavia revealed his market as a D-I football player: He said he was offered $4-$4.5 million by other colleges to transfer."
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If he's that knowledgeable then start coaching bro
 
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