re: Arkansas has 2 football players on its roster that had a brief stint in a mini camp

My brother in Christ I agree with you. All I’m saying is we can keep posting this shite until we’re blue in the face. They don’t care.

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They neither withdrew nor declared for the draft.

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That’s what’s wrong with their hastily thrown together rule. They try to use language that covers all sports (except baseball). However, the rules for the drafts, contracts, tryouts are different in each sport. Their rule is very ambiguous. They said sign a contract and not UDFA contract. They say entering the draft and withdrawing from the draft, when that is not a thing for players that were told they were out of eligibility. Instead of overreacting, they needed to take their time and put together a rule that makes sense and doesn’t have all the gray areas.

Dude I agree. But they’re not doing anything about those players.

The NCAA has allowed, for years now, players to participate in NFL tryouts and return to their college team, AS LONG AS THEY HAD ELIGIBILITY REMAINING. The catch 22, and what is being argued by the Kentucky lawyer, is that the player in question on the Kentucky team DOES have court ordered eligibility. The NCAA is arguing the minicamp makes the player ineligible bc the player did not have eligibility at the time he entered the minicamp. It’s a convoluted, semantical mess.

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“After initial full-time collegiate enrollment, an individual who has eligibility remaining may try out with a professional athletics team (or participate in a combine including that team) at any time, provided the individual does not miss class.” “The individual may receive actual and necessary expenses in conjunction with one 48-hour tryout per professional team (or a combine including that team).” “A tryout may extend beyond 48 hours if the individual self-finances additional expenses… A self-financed tryout may be for any length of time, provided the individual does not miss class.”

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The problem is that that line was not clearly articulated until after LSU said they were considering rostering 2 players that signed a NFL contract, even though one of them was injured and received a grand total of $190 to attend a camp, and then immediately get waived. The contract signing was never a clearly stipulated determinant until after the La court ruling. That should be shouted from the rooftops but it clearly isn't, because Sankey would be immediately fired for his actions against a founder SEC school that did absolutely nothing that violated any SEC rule that had been buried or even after it was brought to light. The NCAA stupidity in changing to the 5 for 5 rule without giving any consideration to the class of 2022 was the entire reason this fiasco happened, and it wasn't because LSU was a rogue school...which is just pure nonsense.

Please move on...

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The problem is that that line was not clearly articulated until after LSU said they were considering rostering 2 players that signed a NFL contract, even though one of them was injured and received a grand total of $190 to attend a camp, and then immediately get waived. The contract signing was never a clearly stipulated determinant until after the La court ruling. That should be shouted from the rooftops but it clearly isn't, because Sankey would be immediately fired for his actions against a founder SEC school that did absolutely nothing that violated any SEC rule that had been buried or even after it was brought to light. The NCAA stupidity in changing to the 5 for 5 rule without giving any consideration to the class of 2022 was the entire reason this fiasco happened, and it wasn't because LSU was a rogue school...which is just pure nonsense.

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It’s become clear that Sankey had some pent up frustrations with Lane and/or LSU to overreact and create the entire fiasco including threats to kick LSU out of the conference. I hope the Wright/Harris lawsuit exposes him and the vendetta he has.