re: NCAA Appeals Trinidad Chambliss Decision

Could they not have also requested an immediate injunction to prevent his playing until a ruling was made ? This would have placed more power in their hands.

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Does the Mississippi Supreme Court also have ole Miss alumni?

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6 of the 7 Judges are Ole Miss grads

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They are saying some crooked alumni judge shouldn’t make eligibility decisions for the ncaa?

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Exactly. Good on Tennessee's judge for doing the appropriate thing in his ruling.

Chambliss loses this case in front of any appellate court not in Mississippi. This was an administrative decision by the NCAA. Courts are not allowed to disturb a ruling by an administrator in cases like this absent clear, overwhelming and convincing proof that the administrator acted arbitrarily or in bad faith.

It’s an almost impossible burden in a case like this. The NCAA has supported its decision with mounds of documentation that would support a conclusion that Chambliss did not miss time due to injury, but rather that he was a developmental player. A judge cannot overturn an administrative decision just because he disagrees with it or thinks it’s wrong. The judge must find the decision arbitrary and this decision clearly was not.

The lower court judge who granted the injunction incredulously found that the eligibility committee acted in bad faith. I think he also tossed in some really stretched contract theory, maybe because he knows how loathe courts are to overturn administrative decisions.

Mississippi Supreme Court judges are elected. To my knowledge, most or all of them are Ole Miss alums. Thats really the only chance Chambliss has, that the judges ignore the law and substitute their opinion for the opinion of the administrator under some bad faith theory.

I suppose the NCAA could take a writ to the US Supreme Court if that happens. It’s not the type of case the US Supreme Court would usually entertain. Legally, Chambliss has a very weak case. But this is Ole Miss football. What judge wants to be tarred and feathered and carried on a pole through the grove?

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Did you forget that the NCAA manages a lot more than just football?

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Me thinks he forgot that the NCAA is made up of the schools themselves…..

Perhaps he would better off thinking “NCAA participating schools” rather than NCAA.

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Chambliss loses this case in front of any appellate court not in Mississippi. This was an administrative decision by the NCAA. Courts are not allowed to disturb a ruling by an administrator in cases like this absent clear, overwhelming and convincing proof that the administrator acted arbitrarily or in bad faith.

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This!!

Also, I might add, any court that allows Student-athletes to remain in school for an infinite amount of time, is impeding athletes who are coming behind them from “the expectation of being paid”.

He should have move on !

Didn’t he already finish school? Is this like that Miami dude that hadn’t gone to any classes in two years? What a friggin joke “college” football has become.

Really puts a target on them with the tampering investigation. This could be a pissing match to the school and the judge.

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dude should have just went into the draft

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I think he can still go to a supplemental draft if he is booted out. However, that does not come with the guaranteed money and signing bonuses the draft does.