A Wisconsin DB Nyzier Fourqurean is now suing the NCAA claiming because he played at DII Grand Valley State, he deserves extended eligibility.
This is quoted directly from the Lawsuit:
"Preventing college student-athletes like plaintiff that attended Division II schools from competing in a third and fourth year of NCAA Division I football due to prior attendance at a Division II school, therefore limiting their economic opportunities to participate in the NIL marketplace available to Division I athletes, and otherwise unreasonably restrain competition in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act,"
And this is why ridiculous rulings like the Pavia one matter. Because it opens the floodgates even farther to even less substantial and valid arguments.
This player was never not allowed to participate in the "NIL Marketplace"... he wasn't good enough to play Division I out of high school. No one is preventing anyone from giving NIL to Division II athletes... this whole argument is utterly devoid of rational thought. This is like the perverse perpetuation of the "everyone who plays gets a trophy," phenomenon.
Anyways, we are about to be one step closer to Eligibility Rules not existing at all and 30-year-old retreads coming back after getting cut from NFL Practice Squads to play against 17-year-olds.
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So, you saying there's a chance?
"If you've got a phone, you've got a lawyer."
This one i can't see the reasoning vs Pravia. This guy played in the NCAA all 4 years. It's not like he played in another league ran by a different organization. I mean should everyone in the ACC sue because they don't get the exposure the SEC does? An they should be allowed to play in the ACC 4 years amd then another 4 in the SEC?
I don't see from a merit standpoint how this has legs either but I thought the Pavia argument was also very weak.
Plus, the NCAA's track record in these legal proceedings has been abysmal. I certainly am not enough of an expert in the Sherman Act to pontificate on how it applies to this situation but this seems to be the basis of the arguments in prior similar eligibility challenges and has largely been successful.
Long and short, if I were a betting man, I would put my money on the player winning again.
And if this lawsuit is successful, it seems likely that others will then try to extend the argument to any player who feels they were playing somewhere that "limited their NIL potential"..i.e. if you played your Fr. year at Wake Forest and went 3-9...should you get an extra year as well??
I think the end-game here is that eligibility limits will become non-existent and players will get to keep playing as long as teams are willing to pay them.
I have no interest in watching a sport filled with "professional college football" players, maybe others do, but that league already exists...its the UFL and its attendance and ratings demonstrate that there is no overwhelming demand.
Imagine going to a service academy, serving your country, coming back suing and playing college football at 26 while you serve you reserve years. I feel like this lawsuit is coming.
Why can't service academy players get NIL? Is it a legal reason or just the decision those schools have made?
Once they start at a service academy they're technically enlisted and they're considered federal employees (which lol this whole thing about football players being employees) and they can't use their public position for personal gain (NIL)
Got it - I knew there was some federal thing.
yeah some "federal" thing AND the fact that the service academies don't exist to prop up minor league NFL football. Their mission is a bit more than that - still today, believe it or not. The cadets are there to get an education and serve their country, not to chase fake NIL bag. If they want to do that, they wouldn't go there in the first place or they are free to leave before their junior year without the service commitment.
From what I've read, it isn't "free" to leave a service academy. You're on the hook.
It's an inactive ready reserve commitment, which barring a war, means they get contacted once a year with no actual service
I had read that you were on the hook for tuition, books, board, etc. if you quit early.
At least at West Point anyway.
Yeah, they have an odd work around to ghe NCAA rules that no one cares about because no one is using commitment to the DoD as a way to entice players to those schools.
You're telling me 5 years in the army isn't a recruiting pitch to 5* athletes?!?
They should sue... they will win
" therefore limiting their economic opportunities to participate in the NIL marketplace " - he's old enough to declare for the NFL- so go there you fucking entitled ass. If he's not good enough for the NFL, nobody is going to pay him any LEGITIMATE ad money anyway. It's all 100% fucked.