For those who don't want to click & read...here's a summary - and it's all good news for NCAA....they are winning on appeal.
- just this week, seven (actually nine) different state & appellate courts have denied more injunctions to allow 5th year players more eligibility-
Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, West Virginia and the Ninth Circuit.
- every case so far that has been appealed to the Appellate Courts has gone for NCAA and denied temporary eligibility while
the case is being argued.
- more new lawsuits are still being filed - there's a total of 77 of them involving 612 different athletes- and of those 612, 286
have now lost their eligibility on appeal. Only 132 of those who still hold eligibility under temporary restraining orders are
basketball players -- but with ongoing appeals in Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas and "elsewhere", that number may drop further.
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I just read an opinion posted that the NCAA should be abolished....with a lot of gripes and complaints about their rules & policies.
Here's my two cents-
-- the NCAA has been around for 120 years and has done a tremendous - almost unmeasurable- amount of good for college sports, the atheltes and the fans.
-- every year NCAA rules on the eligibility of somewhere in the range of 500,000 college athletes in 25 to 30 different sports & competitions.
-- But each year, maybe a couple hundred athletes complain and file challenges and lawsuits - and even then - that has only been happening recently- because of the money involved. Just a decade ago, the number of disputes was barely single digits.
-- so the percent of times the NCAA eligibility ruling gets disputed still is just a couple hundred out of half a million athletes (<0.2%)
SO - in summary, even tho I have had my disagreements with some things that come from NCAA, I'd say the job they've done
for more than a century in trying to keep the competition fair has been outstanding. I appreciate what they do.
- just this week, seven (actually nine) different state & appellate courts have denied more injunctions to allow 5th year players more eligibility-
Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, West Virginia and the Ninth Circuit.
- every case so far that has been appealed to the Appellate Courts has gone for NCAA and denied temporary eligibility while
the case is being argued.
- more new lawsuits are still being filed - there's a total of 77 of them involving 612 different athletes- and of those 612, 286
have now lost their eligibility on appeal. Only 132 of those who still hold eligibility under temporary restraining orders are
basketball players -- but with ongoing appeals in Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas and "elsewhere", that number may drop further.
*** edit
I just read an opinion posted that the NCAA should be abolished....with a lot of gripes and complaints about their rules & policies.
Here's my two cents-
-- the NCAA has been around for 120 years and has done a tremendous - almost unmeasurable- amount of good for college sports, the atheltes and the fans.
-- every year NCAA rules on the eligibility of somewhere in the range of 500,000 college athletes in 25 to 30 different sports & competitions.
-- But each year, maybe a couple hundred athletes complain and file challenges and lawsuits - and even then - that has only been happening recently- because of the money involved. Just a decade ago, the number of disputes was barely single digits.
-- so the percent of times the NCAA eligibility ruling gets disputed still is just a couple hundred out of half a million athletes (<0.2%)
SO - in summary, even tho I have had my disagreements with some things that come from NCAA, I'd say the job they've done
for more than a century in trying to keep the competition fair has been outstanding. I appreciate what they do.
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