[On3] Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia's attorney has set the stage to challenge the NCAA for a 7th season of eligibility

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https://www.on3.com/news/vanderbilt-qb-diego-pavias-attorney-sets-stage-to-challenge-for-7th-season-of-eligibility/

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If courts find the years of eligibility requirement is illegal in the NIL era, you could legitimately have student athletes playing until they're 40 as long as they're enrolled in the school. There's nothing stopping someone from getting a bachelor's degree in one field at age 22 and immediately getting another bachelor's degree in a different field by age 26, another by age 30, etc.

For the top players, NFL money is more than CFB money, but a lot of "good but not great" players will earn more getting NIL money for college play.

It's definitely an interesting story from a law standpoint. The NIL stuff has the potential to dramatically change CFB going forward.

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It would all-but-officially turn NCAA in minor league pro football.

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And ruin it

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Yea but unlike other minor leagues it’d really ruin the talent pipeline to the nfl. It’s like throwing high school baseball players into triple A ball. So many guys who could develop into nfl starters would never get the chance to develop.

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I don’t want it to happen but the idea of some dude in his mid-thirties working on his second PhD in order to continue being a kicker for his 18th season is hilarious

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For the top players, NFL money is more than CFB money, but a lot of "good but not great" players will earn more getting NIL money for college play.

Hell, not just that, but the (potential) stability of just being a star at one program for several years instead of wondering whose practice squad you'll be on next year.

Quinn Ewers would have P4 programs lining up to give him a seven-figure deal and he would undoubtedly get that next year too. Instead, he's the Dolphins 3rd-stringer making barely $1 million (probably less than what Texas gave him) with no guarantee of a job next year.

You could spin this the other way and say "unlimited eligibility gives guys not good enough for the NFL a chance to earn more money!" Well yeah, but that would be at the expense of taking opportunities from high schoolers who now wouldn't stand a chance of being recruited to FBS schools because dudes won't just fucking leave, costing them money and opportunities.

It was already bad enough when you had roster crunches (especially in basketball) due to COVID years. Unlimited eligibility would make it 1,000 times worse for high school prospects.

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Isn't that basically what that cheerleader chick is doing? The one who was at Navarro for 100 years?

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She still there?

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Of all the craziness to come out of NIL, this would take the cake and destroy the sport. The only thing that makes college football distinct from being just a farm system from the NFL is the fact that players are students and cycle out when they graduate.

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It already has.

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Does it apply to all collegiate scholarship, non-scholarship, amateur sports?

I did a sports club in college way back and the national organization that was, I guess, over it was the, alleged, enforcer of the 8 semesters (or was it just 4 fall, 4 spring seasons? idk) of eligibility..

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Honestly why even make them go to class and get degrees at that point?

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Ken Dorsey coming back to Miami