Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia's attorney sets stage to challenge for 7th season of eligibility
Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia is setting the stage to challenge for a potential seventh year of eligibility.www.on3.com
He knows he probably won't make it in the NFL. Maximize your earning potential.
Why would the players agree to a union or collective bargaining? They’ve literally already got everything they could want. And if they want something else they can get it in court. Why would they bargain any of that away?
When the gap between the income of the lower 2/3 and the upper 1/3 gets big enough.
It won't be the stars who push it, but a union could negotiate higher and more stable benefits for most players.
That may be coming, but without really knowing the ins and outs of antitrust, his particular argument seems pretty good to me. If you don't enroll in college, your clock doesn't start at all, but if you enroll in community college, your clock starts and if you play sports, it burns a full year of your eligibility. If the NCAA just started your clock at a certain age and didn't reduce your rights based on participating in what is in theory a competing product, it would seem reasonable enough. But since it only negatively impacts your eligibility if you participate in a competing project, that looks iffy on its face to me. Certainly not a legal analysis and I don't think antitrust is really set up to handle college sports at all, but there doesn't seem to be a great argument for why a 30 year old that never went to college can play four years but a 30 year old that went to one semester of community college out of high school has zero eligibility. Looks like punishing people for "competing" even if community colleges aren't in reality in competition with NCAA sports.
Well, college ball is slowly turning into a NFL farm league anyway. I think you'll see career minor league college players before long having 10-15 year careers. The money's just too good vs working a smuck job.
I can’t wait to see 32 year-old Dr. Smith, with degrees from UAB, UNC Charlotte, and Arkansas State starting at left tackle for LSU.****
Yeah. I think what it’s becoming is a legitimate sustainable “2nd division or AAA” type league. For players not quite good enough for the NFL whi can have a career in college football, not just 4 years & you’re gone.
The good news is, there will be more decent football players across the board. Guess it depends on whether or not all the smaller schools can afford to continue to play football, as to whether it amounts to much across the game as a whole. But if a school could afford the scholarships necessary for whatever division they are in, it's a chance to really have some good talent at the lower levels.
