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The NBA announced that there are 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries on opening-night rosters
France has a league-high 17 international players, marking the first time in 13 years a country other than Canada leads the way
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Good look at how many class of 2022 athletes are currently eligible to play a fifth season as a result of 5 in 5 lawsuits.
And how many have currently been denied via lawsuits.
The number granted a 5th season greatly outnumbers those denied.
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Another preliminary injunction granted against the NCAA in a 5 in 5 case.
This time by a Florida state court.
The NCAA continues to willingly create the “chaos” and uneven playing field it says it’s trying to prevent.
Story here, including my initial thoughts on what it means for Florida State's frontcourt #Noles
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Pretty sharply worded statement from Leon County Circuit Judge David Frank criticizing the NCAA:
In his ruling granting FSU forward Alex Steen a 5th year of eligibility, Leon County Judge David Frank criticized the NCAA for “arbitrarily and capriciously excluding the class of 2022” from getting 5 years of eligibility.
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Update from California.
While this is just one comment that I'm taking out of context from the rest of the hearing, it seems pretty darn likely based on this that the players are getting an injunction,
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From the court order:
“The NCAA's selective class-of-2022 carve-out contravenes its contractual obligations and its implied duty of good faith and fair dealing because it denies Mr. Steen the same opportunity the NCAA has already extended to athletes before and after him.”
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Perfect example of how these Class of 2022 eligibility cases have gone against the NCAA more recently. Steen was initially denied an injunction based on good faith and fair dealing principles, but once the plain text of the bylaws was discovered, the same judge changed course.
BREAKING: Florida State forward Alex Steen has been granted a fifth year of eligibility by the Second Judicial Court in Leon County
Huge news for the #Noles
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More language from the judge in Alex Steen’s 5 in 5 case.
“No reasonable association, having announced that five seasons are
‘what is best for student-athletes,’ would then exclude the one class of student-athletes that has been most disadvantaged by the prior system….”
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NBA rosters to feature players from a record-tying 43 countries. zagsblog.com/2026/10/20/nba-…
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NEW: Tax returns reviewed by @Sportico show @SMUMustangs paid more than $12 million in 2024 to hire men’s basketball coach Andy Enfield away from @USC and buy out his predecessor. Enfield enters Year 3 facing mounting pressure to justify that expense. 👇
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NEW | Louisville is putting Kenny Klein's name in the rafters. That's exactly where it belongs.
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Not unsurprisingly, higher player payroll leads to a higher chance of winning in college football.
As noted, financial advantages which translated to wins were previously expressed through facilities and coach pay.
Now you can add player payroll to that list.
How much does a college football team’s roster budget matter? We're tracking the results!
So far, teams with a $5M+ advantage have won 68% of the time. When it’s at least $10M, they have won 80% of the time.
And we're updating live through the season:
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A tale of two economic systems.
When the topic is college athletes’ compensation, it’s out of control and chaos and needs congressional intervention.
When the topic is college coaches’ salaries, it’s the market at work & can’t restrain it.
Good topic covered by @novy_williams:
OPINION: College football’s biggest programs have been unwilling (or unable) to curb coaching salaries. As a result, coaches like Penn State’s Matt Campbell may be too expensive to fire.
Full story: sportico.com/leagues/college…
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Good piece by Ben on the many, many problems with the Protect College Sports Act.
This bill creates more issues than it purports to solve.
If you think there are lots of legal issues & litigation in college sports now, this bill would create more (it still likely won’t pass).
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NCAA: the class of 2022 can’t play. They’re not eligible. Them trying to become eligible and play is a travesty and gross injustice.
Also NCAA: Contact your representative to pass the PCSA, in which the class of 2022 will immediately become eligible.
#EndTheChaos
NCAA President Charlie Baker announces legal filing in Ohio federal court
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Another big decision goes against the NCAA. Mark Mitchell, Seth Trimble and others are back to being eligible.
Breaking . . .Judge Edwards grants a temporary injunction. The athletes can play. The NCAA loses another one today. The opinion (18 pages in PDF)
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@samcehrlich @WinterSportsLaw
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If filing lawsuits to challenge rules represents “chaos” (I don’t believe this, but NCAA-speak has been making this claim for months), who is the chaos maker now? 🤔
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This is interesting but speaks to the original sin of college sports. I’ve said it countless times and will say it again.
In the NFL and NBA, the franchises are business partners first and competitors second.
In college they are competitors first. All the problems start there
So let’s recap how Tony Petitti and the Big Ten played the SEC into voluntarily squandering what was about to become a massive longterm revenue advantage
2024
- B1G athletic director whose own school just went through a historic scandal is suddenly elevated to the chair of CFP selection committee and trots out lines like “teams can only play the schedules they’ve been assigned.” The CFP rankings are stacked by the loss column after the 12-team format promised to create more meaningful out of conference games between big brands
2025
- Sankey wants CFP expanded to 16 teams after SEC becomes nervous about how much harder it’s schedules are than everyone else’s…
- Petitti agrees to go to 16 if SEC moves to 9 league games, but pulls out after Sankey uses an interim president to push through a vote to move the SEC to 9 league games.
- Now the SEC programs are even more distressed about access.
- Meanwhile, the B1G’s TV partners are dismayed over how much lower their regular season ratings are than the SEC’s.
2026
- The SEC’s fantastic regular season TV ratings are setting them up for a huge contract boost in the next round of negotiations. The B1G schools won’t see the same amounts of revenue in their future TV deals if nothing changes.
- Petitti and the B1G office start pitching a 24-team playoff. Fans hate it. They believe it will devalue the regular season.
- SEC gives in on 24 instead of waiting and pressing it’s ever growing advantage. SEC folds a hand that would have led to it’s schools having TV contract revenues that would have likely been worth tens of millions more than their B1G counterparts in a decade.
- Fans react to news by saying they will watch less regular season college football, which means the B1G’s problem is probably only a couple years away from no longer being a problem. If nobody lives and dies with the SEC’s regular season games any longer then their huge market advantage is gone. Now it will all just become filler until the postseason tournament starts.
The SEC was a short wait away from having an insurmountable advantage. Today’s news ended that possibility. Petitti didn’t make his league any stronger in all of this, but the SEC’s longterm position will likely end up being much weaker than it was before the move to 24.
Devalue the regular season, devalue the SEC.
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NEW | A Jefferson Circuit Court judge has again ruled in favor of Louisville and Kentucky athletes in their NCAA eligibility fight. What he said, and where things stand wdrbwave.com/2026/10/16/judg…
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I have no idea if Congress will pass the #PCSA. But, presuming it does, I hope that many of my tweets serve as evidence of the bill’s colossal problems, as well as evidence of societal problems in terms of bargaining power, legislative capture, and public access to information.