NCAA Grants Waiver To Ex-JUCO Players While Appealing Pavia Ruling

[BengalFan14]

NCAA just granted Ex-Juco kids who were supposed to graduate this year another year of eligibility. If I knew how to link the story I would lol. ESPN.com

 

[LongTimeFan]

More going into the portal. More high school players going JC due to lack of scholarship availability,

What happened to expanding teams to 15 players?

 

[BengalFan14]

If their eligibility clock doesn’t start until they’re out of JUCO why not go? It’s like 2 years of post-grad prep school.

 

[yoda]

the ESPN article- https://www.espn.com/college-footba...juco-players-appealing-diego-pavia-injunction

Note that this immediately gives Duke Deen an additional year of eligibility in 2025-26
AND - it also gives Goanar Bilyew an extra year, too.

also "The waiver does not extend to all junior college athletes, only those who would have completed their NCAA eligibility this year."

AND-- it's not limited just to junior college kids - but to all Division I kids who spent a year or more at a non-DI school.
"the waiver extends an extra year of eligibility in 2025-26 to athletes who previously "competed at a non-NCAA school for one or more years" and otherwise would have exhausted their NCAA eligibility following the 2024-25 season."

 

[Da Coach]

NCAA just granted Ex-Juco kids who were supposed to graduate this year another year of eligibility. If I knew how to link the story I would lol. ESPN.com

Here is that ESPN article - https://www.espn.com/college-footba...juco-players-appealing-diego-pavia-injunction

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors on Monday approved a blanket waiver granting an additional year of eligibility to former junior college transfers in similar positions to Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, opening the door for a wave of college athletes across all sports to spend one more year in college athletics.

I wonder if this ruling might even extend to junior college transfers who finished their careers prior to the 2024-25 season?

 

[BengalFan14]

the ESPN article- https://www.espn.com/college-footba...juco-players-appealing-diego-pavia-injunction

Note that this immediately gives Duke Deen an additional year of eligibility in 2025-26
AND - it also gives Goanar Bilyew an extra year, too.

also "The waiver does not extend to all junior college athletes, only those who would have completed their NCAA eligibility this year."

AND-- it's not limited just to junior college kids - but to all Division I kids who spent a year or more at a non-DI school.
"the waiver extends an extra year of eligibility in 2025-26 to athletes who previously "competed at a non-NCAA school for one or more years" and otherwise would have exhausted their NCAA eligibility following the 2024-25 season."

So, Davis and Dillon also?

 

[yoda]

another comment from the coverage..
"In perhaps more important news, the NCAA could be barreling toward a more significant change to its eligibility rules...
.... that the Division I Council is exploring a “comprehensive” review of eligibility rules .....
....to adjust the eligibility rule in a way that grants athletes five playing seasons in a five-year time span.""
..
so if this also goes thru by this summer, players such as Meta, Atlason, JaQuan, Zobrist, Dietrich Richardson, Montana Wheeler...
....could ALL be at Bradley for five years.

this also opens up the opportunity for lots of former juco kids who would have run out of eligibility,
to head to the portal in 3 months

 

[houstonbrave]

So this would give Duke (and in theory Goanar) the ability to play next year. I don’t think this ruling applies to Christian because Lemoyne was NCAA Division 2. Those are th only ones impacted at this point as I read it but there could be and likely will be more. It would impact Illinois Humrickhouse who played at an NAIA school.

 

[LongTimeFan]

What does the current court cases do for Drake. The coach brought 4 players, including Stirtz, with him from a lower division. I'm not sure how to word that but I hope it makes sense.

 

[yoda]

So, Davis and Dillon also?

no, oddly, I had changed my post to say the waiver is only for seasons played at a non-NCAA school, but the older version
of the post showed up when it was moved to this thread by a mod. But not applicable for Davis or Dillon because they did play at a NCAA school.
So only juco or NAIA

What does the current court cases do for Drake. The coach brought 4 players, including Stirtz, with him from a lower division. I'm not sure how to word that but I hope it makes sense.

as noted -none of the Drake players would benefit since they played at an NCAA school and not at juco or NAIA

as I reviewed the other MVC rosters, it appears that this ruling potentially benefits Bradley the most-
but Duke Deen would need to want to stay one more year at Bradley - and I sure hope he does.
(but then I had hoped that about Hickman & Mast)

But then, things can still change again.....

 

[BengalFan14]

And they may change yet...

https://na01.safelinks.protection.o...0ncjxAkrFtyul1m5Jsi/PACwPc8xGdB34=&reserved=0

 

[Da Coach]

Not counting NCAA Division II years is going to be a more difficult argument to make, since the NCAA's NIL ruling was granted to all divisions. So instead of a juco player suing because he was not allowed to accept NIL at the juco level, this player's argument would have to be that his D2 school didn't offer as much money as he might have gotten at a D1 level. If a court accepts that argument, then every player at every NCAA school could reasonably sue claiming he wasn't able to make as much money as he could have at a bigger school, or one with a bigger NIL fund. or one that had a better opportunity for him to stand out at his position. Even players in non-revenue sports, and women athletes could make the same claim.
It seems he should be suing the D2 school he played for instead of the NCAA.

 

[bradleyfan124]

Not counting NCAA Division II years is going to be a more difficult argument to make, since the NCAA's NIL ruling was granted to all divisions. So instead of a juco player suing because he was not allowed to accept NIL at the juco level, this player's argument would have to be that his D2 school didn't offer as much money as he might have gotten at a D1 level. If a court accepts that argument, then every player at every NCAA school could reasonably sue claiming he wasn't able to make as much money as he could have at a bigger school, or one with a bigger NIL fund. or one that had a better opportunity for him to stand out at his position. Even players in non-revenue sports, and women athletes could make the same claim.
It seems he should be suing the D2 school he played for instead of the NCAA.

This needs to stop!!