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1. The NCAA's Eligibility Rules May Be In Serious Legal Trouble. Here's Why

by Sam Ehrlich, Extra Points

“By now, anyone connected to college sports knows the NCAA is facing serious legal challenges. Beyond the lawsuits tied to the House settlement and the Johnson wage-and-hour employment case, the NCAA has recently been hit with multiple lawsuits targeting its athlete eligibility rules. These cases stem from December’s Diego Pavia decision, where Judge William L. Campbell ruled that Pavia’s JUCO years shouldn’t count against his NCAA eligibility.

In the weeks following that decision, the NCAA was forced to issue a blanket waiver allowing an extra year to fellow ex-JUCO players set to exhaust their eligibility this year in an attempt to avoid a flood of copycat cases. Even so, four new “Pavia-like” cases have been filed by ex-JUCO baseball players who slipped through the cracks of the Pavia waiver as they exhausted their Division I eligibility last year.

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