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Roll your pants legs up, its getting deep in this show

1/22/2026 2:45:18 PM

Duke should sign Lex Thomas

1/22/2026 3:42:16 PM

Hell, since there seems to be no more rules anyway, just pull a QB off of an NFL practice squad who didn't use all 4 years of eligibility and tell the NCAA to fuck off

Sounds impossible, but so did paying them at one point

1/23/2026 11:05:36 AM

Why would you do that when you can get a far superior player in lex thomas

1/23/2026 12:28:22 PM

^^ I think that will probably happen based on the direction the basketball stuff is headed. But it will probably be a bit more rare in football -- they have a smaller window of time since they have the 3 years out of HS rule for the NFL draft.

It seems like the one rule the NCAA is trying to keep intact through all of this stuff is the eligibility clock rule. So, as long as the guy on the NFL practice squad technically hasn't run out their 5 years to play 4, they will probably be allowed to play.

Once the NIL/profit-share stuff got rolling, they were always going to lose the battle of trying to block players from going from pro to college. Hard to argue a player collecting 2mil a year in college isn't already a pro. So, to the courts it looks arbitrary and unfair to block some guy making 70k a year as a pro from coming back and playing college ball for 2mil.

Add in the fact the NCAA had been carving out exceptions for the European leagues for years, and they're pretty cooked.

[Edited on January 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2026 3:52:04 PM

Yeah so they won't release the details, but basically Miami got Mensah, and Duke got a big bag of money.

Although the funniest thing I saw on another discussion was that Duke retains ownership, and gets a bigger share of the revenue off of his NIL. The example given was how Sony still owns Spiderman, but Marvel gets to use him in movies.

1/29/2026 9:33:19 PM

^^ https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/47780686/amari-bailey-10-games-nba-seeks-college-eligibility

1/31/2026 11:35:05 AM

I honestly hope him and the Alabama guy win their cases. He makes a fair point, guys are getting way more than his NBA contract to play on college teams now. And the NCAA's case for letting european pros play but not NBA pros seems weak.


I'm even ok with killing the eligibility clock and effectively turn D1 basketball and football into a pro club system. We need to find a way to make it fair for the players given the amount of money that is now involved. Either open up the semi-pro college teams more, or stop the NFL/NBA from being such monopolistic entities and allow for more pro teams (probably with multiple tiers). I just think it is pretty messed up that a guy can be worth 500k+/year to a college team one year, but then be blocked from ever playing again because the NCAA cuts him off and he's not quite good enough to make an NFL/NBA roster (which control the formation and ownership of new teams tightly). There is clearly a market for watching that level of talent, so fix the system so those guys can play and earn a living.

[Edited on January 31, 2026 at 3:45 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2026 3:44:34 PM