NCAA sends message to member programs regarding class-wide injunction
By Ethan Stone
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College sports somehow just became even more chaotic.
On Friday, U.S. District Court of Colorado judge Charlotte Sweeney granted a class-wide preliminary injunction to all high school athletes from the 2022 cycle who ran out of eligibility this past spring, making them eligible to play another year in college.
This ruling was made considering the NCAA’s recent adoption of a new age-based eligibility model. This eligibility pivot allows athletes to play 5 seasons in 5 years, replacing the old 4-season-in-5-year model that existed for a long time before it.
We’re already seeing the effects of this ruling in college basketball. Several players from the Class of 2022 who had previously exhausted eligibility have now entered the transfer portal, looking to take advantage of Friday’s ruling. With most rosters already set for the rapidly approaching 2026 season, however, we’re going to see athletes who had already secured a spot cut for this new wave of players.
The NCAA, of course, is against this. On Saturday, the NCAA sent a message to its members commenting on the Colorado district court’s decision, calling the ruling “egregiously wrong while insisting that the NCAA will appeal.
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Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
