Help me understand - Bediako at Bama was a thing, but who else?

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NIL has only served to lower my interest in recruiting so admittedly, I'm not 100% familiar with examples of former "pro" players coming back to college athletics. I know of Bediako at Bama but I keep seeing people saying other schools are doing this too. What other examples do we have?

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People signing pro contracts and then coming back to college has been a thing forever now. Chris Weinke, ZVR, Matt Mauck, and on and on and on. If the hard and fast rule is that once you sign a professional contract, you forfeit your ability to play in college, why were those guys allowed to play? I don't care that they played a different sport in college than they signed professionally to play, they were, by definition, professional athletes that were allowed to compete in college.

JOE MAMA, DORK

Reality is the SEC made it even worse and should be sued for collusion when they explicitly only banned it for 3 sports (football, men's and women's basketball).

Either going pro in any sport eliminates your eligibility for that sport or none do. That should include international leagues, semi-pro leagues, and anything else.

Until they do that, they need to STFU about this specific incident.

Bediako ended up being ineligible

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there are about 91 former professional basketball players currently in college basketball. They mostly played overseas, but they still played professionally.

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Why is the NCAA arbitrarily ruling NBA and NFL guys pros, but not guys who were paid to play in foreign leagues?

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what competitive advantage did those players get from being pros in another sport? That is the only question to ask.

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1) That's not the argument in question. The argument being presented is one of eligibility. If the rule was applied the way the conferences are desiring, meaning that they don't think anyone who signs a professional contract should be eligible, then someone will have to explain why we had no issue with foreign players and baseball guys coming back to football all of those years.

2) Plenty of competitive advantage if you think about it. Age for one. They're physically older and more developed than 18-19 and even some 20 year olds. They reaped the benefits of being in a professional organization where they could fully devote themselves to sport. Further cognitive development. It's certainly a competitive advantage for a 26 year old to play against a teenager from a muscular development standpoint. Much greater amounts of experience playing on a big stage, such as in professional competition, than a younger teenaged player may have.


And the NCAA, SEC & all the other conferences had zero issue with this for years. Suddenly now it's an issue.

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signed professionally to play, they were, by definition, professional athletes that were allowed to compete in college.

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Logic doesn't matter. LSU is the Villain and is cheating and destroying the sport haven't you heard? I'm with you I am over the hypocritical nature of this and so over the moral card being drawn by coaches doing similar things.

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It's certainly a competitive advantage for a 26 year old to play against a teenager from a muscular development standpoint.

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Some of those teenagers play professional basketball and baseball and would play football if the NFL allowed it.

What is amazing to me is the outrage over a handful of players around the country who played for ten minutes in an NFL camp. However, where was all the outrage from the NCAA, SEC, media and other conferences for allowing men into women sports. If you want to address unfair advantages, let’s start with men competing in women’s sports. Otherwise STFU and STTDB!