NCAA fifth-year eligibility appeal
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Colorado judge clarifies class-wide injunction on NCAA age-based eligibility model
The injunction does not enjoin transfer rules, roster caps, or rev-share caps that are part of the House settlement agreement.
Judge Sweeney's initial ruling on Friday stated that all high school class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their fourth season of college eligibility this spring would be eligible for a fifth season in 2026-27.
An Ohio judge granted a preliminary injunction for 24 men’s and women’s college basketball players suing the NCAA over the age-based eligibility model earlier this summer.
“As the plain language of the preliminary injunction order and this order make clear, the Court’s injunction concerns only the implementation of the Rule (as defined in the preliminary injunction order) and any Bylaw that prohibits Plaintiffs and Class Members from competing in a fifth season of collegiate athletics.”
NCAA plans to appeal injunction granting fifth year of eligibility to Class of 2022 athletes
The NCAA's chief legal officer Scott Bearby called the Colorado federal judge's decision to grant an injunction restoring a year of eligibility for student-athletes from the high school class of 2022 "egregiously wrong" in a letter sent to member schools.
Several football players who participated in minicamps with NFL teams in the spring were not invited to full training camp and now face an opportunity to renew their college football careers.
The Big Ten and SEC approved a deal to support the Protect College Sports Act on Friday.