Are we really surprised that the local judge in Mississippi is going to allow the kid to play another year? Absolutely ridiculous situation.
Not at all surprised he will have his 6th or 7th year. I was responding to someone who said he lost and will have to declare. I think this afternoon the judge will rule in his favor. Hell, I will not be surprised if the judge went to Ole Miss himself! EDIT: Judge ruled for him! LOL. He will be back to Ole Miss.
He did. Don’t care. The NCAA’s argument is, essentially: if Chambliss gets a waiver it would open up the floodgates. But what if they treated him unfairly to try closing the floodgates that their own arbitrary decisions caused to be opened in the first place? What if he has a valid legal argument - that he, individually, was treated unfairly - and, the case is, appropriately, in state court, with a Mississippi judge, rather than a federal judge deciding on a broader issue of antitrust? The NCAA could fix their rules. Instead, they want to say - we’re the sole arbiter and this is what we say. Which would be fine, if they weren’t so spastic in how they’ve decided everything until now. Why should Trinidad Chambliss have to pay for their incompetence? Yes, this is about Ole Miss’s 2026 QB. But for Chambliss, it’s about his whole-life earning capacity. And should be. The NCAA dicked him good. He has three seasons as a college QB, two as a starter. I hope he gets a third.
Eh, still on the "fuck a kid who wants to spend a decade in college." I want no part of anyone who can't sack up and drag his ass to the NFL. Certainly tells me he KNOWS he won't make it in the Pro's or he would be on his way. It's hard enough to be an NFL QB and that's for guys who are drooling to get into the league. For a kid that is doing everything he can to NOT leave school....yeah, he can stay there and, when he's done playing, he can become one of those "student" coaches as he goes on for his graduate degrees. By the time he gets done he'll be a 25 year old rookie and, from my vantage point, he'll be approaching 30 by the time he "gets it" at the NFL level. Unless some team is super desperate, wants to invest a ton of time and resources into someone who "might" squeeze a decade of play...naw, don't see it happening. Chambliss is "dead" to me.
Imagine being the 4th string QB at Ferris State playing for free. …And 3 years later you are in the courts as the most high profile eligibility case trying to get another year and another $5 million from Ole Miss
Everyone else got the waiver. They tried to deny us for what reason? Carson Beck, Diego Pavia and Granowski all got it. I saw zero complaints on this board about Pavia getting it last year yet everyone’s piling on Chambliss. Why?
As you know, I don't follow college ball so didn't care about Beck, Pavia or Granowski. From what "little" I saw of Pavia he isn't going to make it in the NFL anyway so I guess it doesn't matter. "Little" being the operative word here on him. The only reason I commented on Chambliss is because of how many years he's already been in college and how "hard" he's fighting to stay. Make no mistake, I don't begrudge him that opportunity, far from it. Hey, if you can make a slick $5 mil staying at the college level, then by all means. What I don't want is a guy like that on my professional football team. I guess, as far as the Jets go, it doesn't really matter. There are a handful of HS QB's that are better than anything we had last year. It's just, with this team, it's going to have to be someone who "wants" to be an NFL QB AND someone who can shoulder the non-football related "load" and baggage that comes with this organization.
Yeah. And I’d have less of a problem with it if they decided on a reasonable timeline, with evidence that disproved his claim that the medical reason he gave for not being able to play was bogus. Instead, they couldn’t reach a decision, waited longer than any other case, until the portal was already open and his options were running out, and then decided based on “Because we say so” reasons. Which, to your point, would be fine, if they didn’t say something else a hundred other times.
True. Ten years ago I’d have thought it was unthinkable. My stance on this is actually less about Trinidad Chambliss and more about the NCAA. Any chaos now in college sports is on their hands. The colleges and universities also, but the NCAA first and foremost.
I get that. Fundamentally, I don’t disagree. This case only made it this far because: (1) Austin Simmons couldn’t cut it as a starter, because if he had, we’d have hardly heard the name Trinidad Chambliss; and (2) the NCAA didn’t reject his waiver back in November when they should have. If he were a lock in the first round, I’d say suing was a dumb decision. Any lower round, it’s either a wash or he loses several millions dollars.
You’re going to start not wanting more and more of those guys on your team as the NCAA keeps handing waivers out. This is the way the game has moved. Disqualifying them from your roster would just mean you’re not adopting a modern fact of the game.
All they EVER had to do was say "no one is forced to play college sports" period. hey you want to go make other money somewhere? go ahead, there's a whole world out there son/daughter. As an adult you can do whatever the fuck you want. In the collegiate environment we play for an education, healthcare, and a place to live. not for you? that's OK! The door is right there...
In a strange way, everything happening today happened in some form before, it’s just called something different, and it’s either poorly regulated or unregulated. We don’t really hear about “grey shirts” anymore. Nick Saban probably owes a ring or two to gaming that wrinkle. And we definitely don’t hear whispers about paid players, because it’s now allowed and NIL competition is like a league unto itself. The system has changed, NCAA rules haven’t. They’re waiting for Congress to step in and fix things. That probably needs to happen if you want to keep pretending these are “student” athletes. Until it does, I won’t root for every Trinidad Chambliss, just the ones getting intentionally screwed by arbitrary enforcement.
Agree entirely. I was trying to think which case and what player led to the system getting blown apart. Just to bring it all home - I think one of the top-5 candidates is sitting now on the Jets roster.
Sort of, but not entirely. The NCAA is run horribly and has been screwing things up for decades. But they also were tired of getting sued at the asshole so they just said you wanna keep suing us? Fine. Fuck it. Let’s Wild West this shit. It’ll destroy all other college sports though. Cal’s women’s field hockey team can’t support the expenses to play @ North Carolina in the ACC for very long.
I didn't even know these guys last year, we were not looking to draft a QBs then. But to me, yeah, let the kid play if everyone else does, I have no issues. They don't need to throw the book at him while letting others get away with worse if that's indeed what happened. It's just that the whole system is idiotic. We have a guy playing in Natty who graduated from another College 2 years ago, doesn't even attend the university. Whole bunch of 24-25 years olds playing, some playing for 7 years, making millions. You are supposed to be done by 21/22. 23 is the absolute worst case if you have a late birthday and got an extra year because you were seriously hurt (and no, having inflamed tonsils when you are a 4th string anyway practicing with the team should not qualify). Right now it's basically a semi professional League with no rules. And finally, if there is a legal case where a university is trying to bring in a guy you deem ineligible, it should not be a judge who went to this university in the same state deciding the case. I rest my case! LOL.
