Jay Bilas

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[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Pat Kelsey on the witness stand is electric:

"Tell me the rules and I'll follow them! Nobody follows them. You're trying to trick me with a bunch of stuff. END THE CHAOS! END. THE. CHAOS."

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

Worth a watch.

As Kelsey makes clear, there would be no class of 2022 eligibility “chaos” if the NCAA had made a smarter decision with implementing the new eligibility rule.

[Adam Zagoria @AdamZagoria]

‘Gotta go back to court next month’: St. John’s star sums up state of college basketball

https://t.co/lyg91LpqFT

@mitchgilfillan
@ElliotSolAbrams

[Adam Zagoria @AdamZagoria]

St. John’s honoring the late great Kenny Klein in its media guide

[Jeff Rabjohns @JeffRabjohns]

Florida coach Todd Gooden crushes the NCAA for its lies on “displacement” and its lies about the 2022 class.

[Jay Bilas @JayBilas]

Interesting points, and a debate that should occur on each campus in order to make its own individual decisions. A university’s mission may not address running a multi-billion dollar sports industry. It also does not address running commercial dining and retail operations or hotel and conference hospitality or acting as hedge funds. The real question is: are these endeavors AND education mutually exclusive? Clearly, I believe, the answer is “no.”

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Mike Tirico says colleges need to decide if they run college sports programs or professional sports teams:

"Should that person [athlete] be... going to classes and getting a degree the same way the students are?"

Presented by @SpectrumBiz

[Michael McCann @McCannSportsLaw]

The next major NCAA lawsuit might not be against an athlete.

Instead, it might be against a governor.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's executive order challenges NCAA eligibility rules and could trigger a constitutional fight.

My latest for @Sportico: https://t.co/x1mKErVKR6.

[The V Foundation for Cancer Research @TheVFoundation]

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Nick served as our CEO from 1999 - 2012. He helped shape the organization we are today. Our hearts are with the Valvano family. ❤️

Last year, he sat with our staff and told us what makes the V Foundation special. It’s the team. The people.

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

Another head basketball coach questioning why the NCAA is dying on the class of 2022 eligibility hill.

[Sam C. Ehrlich @samcehrlich]

The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered briefing on the impact of Governor DeWine's executive on the Borovicanin five-for-five case.

In the meantime, it has stayed the decision of the Ohio Court of Appeals -- restoring the lower court's injunction and making those players eligible.

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

Another TRO/preliminary injunction granted by a state court in a class of 2022 5 in 5 case, this time by a Michigan state court.

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

Coaches get it.

The NCAA is the entity that has caused the eligibility “chaos.”

The winners in the current situation are the NCAA’s lawyers.

[UCLA Athletics @UCLAAthletics]

Honoring the birthday and lasting legacy of Coach John Wooden. 🎂

#GoBruins

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

This👇

We’d have no class of 2022 lawsuits, and now executive orders, if the NCAA hadn’t botched the roll out of its new eligibility rule.

The poor implementation has led to massive legal fees, a new batch of unfavorable case law for the NCAA & the “chaos” it complains about.

[Marc Edelman @MarcEdelman]

Six questions reporters should be asking Ted Cruz about #PCSA but for the most part aren’t:

1. When exactly did you first come to support a bill of this nature?

2. What role did Cody Campbell play in establishing your view, and why do his views matter to you more than those of any other common citizen?

3. Various sources point out that at one point you wanted to strip baseball of its antitrust exemption. Why take it away an exemption from baseball and grant one to the #NCAA?

4. Have your views on the baseball exemption changed? (If so (a) why and (b) have you discussed this with Randy Levine, and has Randy Levine discussed his views with you?)

5. You describe a bill to set increase in college sports ticket prices as ‘price fixing,’ which you say you would oppose. Isn’t this bill, in part, wage-fixing?

6. (Based upon answers), how do you reconcile all of these inconsistencies in your positions?

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

For those thinking the SEC-LSU legal battle was over, it is not.

Strong words from the league in its latest filing, including a contention that LSU is not “prepared to accept the consequences of its stubborn refusal to follow” conference rules.

[Neil W. Blackmon @nwblackmon]

The order by Governor DeWine isn’t legislating eligibility.

It simply instructs Ohio schools to decline to apply an extratextual eligibility restriction on Class of 2022 athletes.

It is also demonstrative of the reality pointed out by Tennessee’s head coach Rick Barnes earlier today:

This isn’t about athlete or lawyer greed.

The NCAA’s mishandling of the five year rule rollout has caused the chaos the NCAA has so frequently argued (without a single real life example of a displaced athlete) would be caused by permitting 2022 athletes to play in the first place.

From applying the rule retroactively only in part to drafting a rule that textually doesn’t contain the 2022 Carve Out to spending millions lobbying Congress for a law that likely provides 2022 athletes the same relief the NCAA is simultaneously spending millions of dollars in Big Law fees to fight in court— it is unequivocally the NCAA, not athletes, who created and is perpetuating the chaos.

As a result of this conduct, the college basketball season, which is the NCAA’s cash cow, is now in a state of turmoil less than 3 weeks before the opening tip.

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Todd Golden on eligibility chaos is worth your time ⬇️

"The NCAA has spent millions of dollars promoting the PCSA. But if that were to pass, the class of '22 athletes would be eligible."

"At this point, the NCAA is arguing that they're trying to prevent chaos, but they're really causing it."

(🎥: @rockytopinsider)

[Darren Heitner @heitner]

All state governors can and should sign executive orders that give schools clear cover to roster Class of 2022 players. That produces uniformity, eliminates chaos, ends the split in court rulings, and tracks what the NCAA bylaws already require. It ties the NCAA's hands.

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

More coaches are calling out and questioning the NCAA’s strategy with respect to eligibility for the class of 2022.

Golden is spot on here.

The NCAA’s arguments are misguided and it is the entity causing the “chaos.”