Sam C. Ehrlich @samcehrlich Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia's motion for a preliminary injunction that would allow him to play in 2025 has been GRANTED.
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Sam C. Ehrlich @samcehrlich Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia's motion for a preliminary injunction that would allow him to play in 2025 has been GRANTED.
Or, you know, he could just leave college and go get a job.
Unless I am misunderstanding something. All he is wanting is his "Covid" year the NCAA gave players who were on an NCAA team the Covid year. He happened to be on a Juco team that season and the NCAA was not recognizing that as a Covid year for him.
You sound awfully bitter towards a lot of college kids trying to make it in life. Did one mess around with your wife/girlfriend/significant other or something?
I think you're right, but he's still played four years in addition to that, so wouldn't that exhaust his eligibility still? He played 2 years in Juco (including the covid year), 2 years at NM State, and now this past year at Vandy. So my math would still say that's 4 years of playing time. So I'm really confused.
Courts seem to be negative toward restricting someone’s earning capacity.See that in non competes in the business world and the way they deal with NIL and such.Wonder what would happen if someone sued the NCAA about eligibility being restricted to a certain number of years? You would think the NCAA has the right to limit years of eligibility but if you find the right judge you never know..The player could say the eligibility cap limits they’re right to receive money from NIL and such.The way to solve it would have the length of eligibility collectively bargained which is where things seem to headed anyway.
Yeah, so the 2 in Juco + 2 at NM State + 1 at Vandy = 5. I just said 4 in the other post since I wasn't counting the covid year.
I believe he only played one year in Juco "New Mexico Military Institute", two at New Mexico State and then one year at Vandy. Getting back the Juco year as his Covid year would give him one more year of eligibility.
Good grief, the guy is 23 years old. For Pete's Sake, how long do you get to hold onto the "kid making it life" title? Just call it what it is: a refusal to grow up.
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The NCAA does not have oversight over JUCO football and / or players, yet the NCAA ruling is that any year spent playing JUCO counts towards NCAA eligibility. So in theory that would be 4 years of eligibility used.
Based on some replies on this thread, and on another current thread (Courts), for some reason this image came to mind.
Based on some replies on this thread, and on another current thread (Courts), for some reason this image came to mind.
Darn straight. If you've seen that movie, he was the one person who had it all right.
When I was 23 I was living on my own, supporting myself, had completed my MS and was teaching in a community college while I worked on my Ph.D.
But Diego's just a kid trying to make it in life.
He's an emotionally stunted man refusing to take the responsibilities of adulthood.
But Diego's just a kid trying to make it in life.
He's an emotionally stunted man refusing to take the responsibilities of adulthood.
According to his bio for Vanderbilt football, he played 2 years there. 2020 and 2021.
Diego Pavia
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I think the point is, he wants to continue his current job "College QB" for another year, given the $$$, I bet you were not getting paid like he gets paid at that age, and I know I was not being paid like Diego at 23 - 24 years old, LOL.
If he was he would be trying to hold on to it to. Especially if the NFL is a not in play. His analogies are laughable. Let’s go back 75 years, this is a different day and time. We don’t even have black and white photos anymore unless you want to. This is 2024. He sounds jealous to be honest.
6th year
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and now 2025
Prior to Vandy
• Competed two seasons at New Mexico State (2022-23) and two seasons at New Mexico Military Institute (2020-21)
Can you imagine what will happen if and when college players are deemed employees instead of students?
Think about it. USC could have a QB like Sellers decide he doesn’t want to play in the NFL ($$$ might be just as good in ”college”) and is allowed to stay on for a decade or more at USC! Talk about strange!?!
Sounds like post WW2 when returning veterans were playing college football in their late 20’s and 30’s.
Personally I don't blame the guy for appealing. He knows he's probably going to be a late round to undrafted NFL pick. Not sure what Vandy is paying him but I'm sure it's more than the $50k a year or so he could expect as a new college grad out in the real world or short term undrafted free agent contract in the NFL. He may be saving every penny he makes too.
The wording is regarding non compete and inability to make money you could POTENTIALLY have made because of not being in div 1, I believe... So does this stop here?
What if someone was in division 2 or 3 for their first 2 years? Will those count?
Lawmakers need to have a huge meeting and get all this crap straightened out... I hate when government gets involved, but I don't see another way out.
What if someone was in division 2 or 3 for their first 2 years? Will those count?
Lawmakers need to have a huge meeting and get all this crap straightened out... I hate when government gets involved, but I don't see another way out.
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With the NCAA's track record with the court system in the last decade, it would seem they would try to avoid the courts altogether.
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Dude, you are totally out of line as usual. You don't know anything about that man and basing everyone else's life off of yours. That extra year where he is refusing to grow is probably worth about 2 million dollars based what starting, D-1 QBs are getting on the open market. Sounds like a pretty grown up decision if you ask me. However, we have some guy on Gamecock Central making value judgments on his maturity for free.
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You have to take into consideration who you are talking to. 18 is the same guy who wouldn't let his pre-teen kids play the new College Football video game because he was teaching them how to be a man.
Missed that, that says a lot. Kinda all makes since. Maybe it wasn’t a girlfriend, maybe he was emotionally hurt as a kid. I’m a grown man, who supports his family with more than they could want, with company I own, and I play video games a fair amount. Even own a new PlayStation myself. Hum go figure. Guess I’m not a man lol.
....and where did he get his Law Degree from? Alcoholics Anonymous? Man, he better go sit over in the corner and thank the lord that he has been given a third chance to coach at one of the plum programs in the country after drinking away two previous opportunities.
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That that's your only rebuttal tells me you know he's right. You are incapable of disagreeing with him on principle, so you're only option is to attack him for some personal failure completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
Thank YOU for proving the point. You are useful.
It's not that this particular case is that ludicrous. It's the slippery slope where it seems likely to nudge the system, meaning we could eventually see guys playing multiple years at JUCO, then transferring to D-1 with another five years to play four, not including injury wavers, etc. We've already seen a couple of wild cases like that. There could be players who played in 2020, which is still in play as that "free" year, then redshirted 2021 before transferring down to JUCO for a couple of years in 2022-23 and now transferred back to D-1 this past season to play what would be their first of four years under this scenario. So, in effect, we could have guys who graduated high school in 2020 and are still playing college football in the 2027 season.
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