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SEC and BIG ban pro players

DeanCane said:
sports.yahoo.com

Big Ten, SEC approve ban on pro players returning to college to play; ACC, Big 12 considering move

The SEC announced Monday night that professionals should not "return to college competition."
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I actually agree with this
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Rosenhaus was on CNBC and the host failed to ask him if he had encouraged his client, heading to LSU, to enter the draft and if he had been paid by his client already. Of course, Drew's backing of the ruling was purely altruistic.
 
i personally like the sec's approach ... acc won't do it though ... they've allowed pro basketball players to return to college already
 
I agree with the Big10 and SEC.
This is getting ridiculous.
This entire thing is more of a money grabbing thing by the agents, as they can lure underclassmen into the draft with assurances that if they fail, they can always return to college and even make some more dough from another bidding war.
This garbage is ruining college athletics.
What next?
College freshmen returning to HS?
 
Wording to these rules is similar to what they did to close the transfer loophole. They aren’t saying a player can’t come back, they’re saying coaches and universities that accept those players will be penalized.
 
Highline17 said:
NEW: Schools that violate the SEC's professional sports rule will result in:

• 50% season suspension for head coaches
• 50% of that sport's annual operating budget
• SEC voting privileges on business matters revoked

- Wilson Alexander of On3
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Good for the SEC. Now these players can finally close the yearbook and can get a real job like the rest of society.
 
I actually think the leagues can do this and will win in court and here is why.

The leagues are not preventing the players from playing, as the NCAA was doing. Please see the post above from @bathtubgin.
By doing so, the NCAA was being accused of disparate treatment. The players from the 2022 recrutiing class argued that they had been treated differently than the 2023 recruiting class. And the players were correct. And because the players had never agreed to the rule change and were not even consulted, their only redress is in court.

The other problem for the NCAA is that their decision; recruiting class of 2023 v 2022, is arbitrary. There is no legal reason why the same rule change could not have been applied to the recruiting class of 2022. Add up the arbitrary rule, the disparate treatment and the lack of voice of the players in the construction of the rule, and the players win. Same reasons the players have been winning ever since the Alston case.

Leagues though are in a different legal posture because their members, the schools, agreed upon this rule change and it applies evenly to every school within the league. And the rule is not arbitrary as it applies to everyone regardless of the recruiting class or sports calendar. IMO, no court will tell a league that it cannot punish a league member if the league member violates an agreed upon rule not to use one of these players. In fact the league members may have to go to arbitration/mediation depending on the league contract, so court may not even be an option.

I expect these rules to be challenged because the players have the money to hire attorneys and attorneys like to be paid. And I expect the challengers to lose.
 
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