Disagrees with ya

$30 k selling cars

The NCAA had previously granted a blanket one additional year to a cohort of JUCOs (re: Pavia ruling), but denied this particular player's request. The NCAA is trying to have it both ways, where JUCO time doesn't count towards your 4 years to play for real (Pavia) but does count towards your 5 years of eligibility. This lawsuit results says that's no bueno. I expect that we're going to a place where JUCO time just doesn't count. Period. That would shift some level of player from NCAA to JUCO, sure. But that already happens with academically ineligible kids anyway. It will just be some more of them. JUCOs are typically only 2-3 year programs, so your sky-is-falling 35 year old collegiate player isn't going to be much of a thing. More likely you'll end up with more 25-26 aged college seniors who were not good enough to go NFL sooner. ** Edited by Beerman at 9/25/2025, 12:25:12 PM ** Edited by Beerman at 9/25/2025, 12:30:11 PM

But if you disagree at all ya go to court and get what ya want. Keep in mind that almost all players will never sniff the nfl so human nature says they will stay in college as long as possible as the pay to play is more than they make selling cars. The house of cards is folding. Oh well

...the guys who earn the money in college are, generally speaking, the ones who are good enough for the NFL. Or at least expected to be. I don't know what sort of NIL paychecks there are going to be for a guy who wants to play 3 years in JUCO and then 5 years in the NCAA, all the while not actually being any sort of star player.

The central premise of Pavia's lawsuit was that there were no NIL opportunities in JUCO, so counting those years against his NCAA eligibility was an unfair restraint of trade. There's nothing illegal about amateur athletics. If the NCAA and D1 institutions were willing to give up the income stream on their end, they could set all the rules the wanted to. They just can't have it both ways.

surface, I have seen ESPN+ broadcast JUCO and even community college games in football, basketball, and I think 1 other sport during the regular season. Now that may not equate to NIL opportunities for the players. It does make me wonder where that line would be because I am assuming someone is benefiting some way from the broadcast. Otherwise, why include it on a platform as far reaching as ESPN+?

money-wise. I guess it gives whatever schools playing some publicity, but I doubt they get much of anything in payments.

in a court of law.

Since we're all doing this stupid dance where we let players profit from endorsements (NIL) but are pretending they aren't being paid to play, the market matters. As of yet there isn't much of a market at the JUCO or HS level. Surely this will change. There isn't anything more quintessentially American than some rich idiot throwing his money around in an effort to achieve the vicarious glory of supporting his sportsball team. If it hasn't happened in HS yet, it will soon.

wanted to use him in their local commercials. I was too young to know if he ended up doing the local commercials or not and whether he got "paid" for them. The reason I mention it is because the NIL situation for DII, DIII, NAIA DI, and NAIA DII is a lot more localized than what we are currently seeing at the DI level (including DI-FCS for football). I would expect JUCO and Comm. College would be in the same boat.

In other sports like swimming and water polo (especially water polo), you have a lot of European athletes go to the JUCO (or even D2) route if they can't qualify due to not meeting curriculum or other requirements. My son had several Serbian teammates in this situation.