Injury updates

[OrediggerPoke]

With the proliferation of money in college athletics for athletes, I wonder how long it will be before players challenge the limit on years they are allowed to play. I fully expect an athlete to say that they are being denied the chance to make significant coin in college because of the arbitrary "four years of eligibility" business. Amateurism is dead anyway, why not go all the way and say that college sports are simply an alternative to turning pro - and you can move around as you see fit. Similarly, I wouldn't be surprised if players that go pro and flail and fail in the pro game sue to go back and play in college. I'm not saying I support either, but with the current state of play, they are wholly plausible.

I think it would be an uphill battle on the legal argument against a 4 year limitation because that has been uniformly applied and the college undergraduate system has always been set up on the theory of a 4 year degree.

But the restrictions on returning to college after not making it in the pros is a really interesting thought. Under anti-trust theories that are now being adopted by the courts, hard to see why that should be barrier.

 

[LawPoke]

I think it would be an uphill battle on the legal argument against a 4 year limitation because that has been uniformly applied and the college undergraduate system has always been set up on the theory of a 4 year degree.

But the restrictions on returning to college after not making it in the pros is a really interesting thought. Under anti-trust theories that are now being adopted by the courts, hard to see why that should be barrier.

I wonder if the universities might stand with the athletes on the 4-year limitation being arbitrary. Absent the colleges opposing a change, it is only the NCAA that stands between today's rules and limitless eligibility so long as a student is enrolled, right?

 

[OrediggerPoke]

I wonder if the universities might stand with the athletes on the 4-year limitation being arbitrary. Absent the colleges opposing a change, it is only the NCAA that stands between today's rules and limitless eligibility so long as a student is enrolled, right?

Maybe that will be part of the split. I can’t see most MWC schools supporting 30 year old paid athletes on college campuses.

 

[Midwest Cowboy]

Maybe that will be part of the split. I can’t see most MWC schools supporting 30 year old paid athletes on college campuses.

 

[laxwyo]

I think it would be an uphill battle on the legal argument against a 4 year limitation because that has been uniformly applied and the college undergraduate system has always been set up on the theory of a 4 year degree.

But the restrictions on returning to college after not making it in the pros is a really interesting thought. Under anti-trust theories that are now being adopted by the courts, hard to see why that should be barrier.

All the more reason that it shouldn’t be a part of the university system. The NFL needs to create a 32 team minor league and have the players collectively bargain and agree to sets of rules. This could organically happen with SEC and BIG10 essentially but you still would have the age and eligibility issue which others have made some really good arguments. It’s a mess