re: NCAA Loses in Court: TRO against One Time Transfer Rule

What prevents a basketball player from transferring after this semester and being eligible immediately in January?

Everyone bitches about the NCAA all the time and then bitches when the NCAA gets neutered. The Supreme Court setting the precedent of no rules (hello, Justice Kavanaugh) has essentially ruined the greatest American sport.

I don’t disagree with you a bit, but you need to specify who they’ve ruined it for. It’s ruined for the fans, especially old-school fans, but what the fans want is not even entering the discussion here. The players probably think this is wonderful, and their interests are what is being prioritized here.

Again, the NCAA is paying now for the days when they nit-caca ruled people ineligible for taking a chili cheese dog from someone. Now that the door is open it’s going to be just like MLB when players got free agency after being treated like caca for decades, they’re not going to give back what they’ve been given and the courts and the politicians are on their side.

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Colleges can have athletics but make it where the students who want to play go to open tryouts for the team. Do it for fun, it doesn’t yield scholarships and no recruiting allowed. Basically like high school

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See what chaps my arse about this line of thinking is when I went to college I didn't have the perks that athletes on scholarship did but I still went and took my classes and got my degree so I could get a good job after college. If players aspire to the NFL is that not similar to what typical college students do? They're in college to get a pedigree that proves themselves to their future employers. Unpaid internships aren't uncommon either.

There are already club sports in college that aren't NCAA affiliated, including football. Those are the ones that "do it for fun". What you're essentially asking is that those club football teams become the new NCAA football while the current football teams break off into a minor league. And how does that work? Is the club team now going to play in Tiger Stadium on ESPN while minor league team plays...where? Are they still even going to be affiliated with the university?

And I'm aware that me being a random accounting student doesn't bring the university revenue like a star football player does. But at the same time, even in the before times, the star football player had far better access to tutors, medical care, nutritionists, meal plans, housing, etc than your layman college student. They were far more taken care of than your average student, and even if you don't make the NFL simply being a former LSU player will look good on a resume when job searching time comes.

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Jesus Christ.

So you think giving a kid a scholarship, meal plan, educational support, ect ect is equivalent to forcing someone to work a field under penalty of death? Absolutely insane.

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The Point
Your Head

I merely provided examples of situations where the government generally has no business intervening but has to. I didn't liken these circumstances to those.

Here's a thought experiment for you:

An employer offers to furnish you a small apartment and free meals plus a small salary. You have no upward mobility staying in this organization.

Another employer offers you the same benefits plus a larger salary and a more prominent position in their company that makes it much more likely you further your career.

An independent third party considers themselves to be all powerful over all matters involving you and both employers and attempts to enforce a 1 year non compete clause before you can start your new better job with employer B. This independent third party is not a government entity and is subject to regulation from actual government entities.


Do you:
A) Sue the third party
B) Take their demands as the gospel like a little bitch and frick yourself over

Now imagine you are a judge
Do you
A) Say this person is shite out of luck because government has no place in sports
B) Give everyone involved fair treatment under the law and consider the merits of the case

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Why even get to know or care about a player that can be gone every single year after a bidding war?

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If not after every game... Seems dumb, but I bet FSU would like to buy a QB a few weeks ago.

NCAA will not appeal the TRO but offered this guidance-

"The 14-day TRO only enjoined Bylaw 14.5.5.1 and does not change the season of competition legislation."

which means if you play while there is a restraining order, and the NCAA wins the hearing on 12/27, you can't finish the season and you lose a year of eligibility

I get the ncaa not being able
To limit transfers, but how or why aren’t the individual schools or conferences?

How can you have a player transfer multiple times and be considered a student? I mean you have to qualify as a student still correct?

Downvote for the TRO acronym