Dave Taylor

@WinterSportsLaw Most fans are sick of their teams getting raided in the portal every year. So what if little Jimmy has to stay at a school for more than one year? Fans don’t support programs if they can’t be attached to it.

Good piece explaining why an antitrust exemption for the NCAA is bad policy.

@davidubben @PeteSampson_ @FightingIrish Bevacqua take notice. Do your job and lead.

Kirby Smart: "My biggest concern for our sport is we're going to ruin all the other sports. People say, 'That's just the way it is.' I don't believe in that." Emphasized the importance of Olympic sports.

@RedditCFB Screw you.

Notre Dame started up 3-0, and now Princeton leads 10-3. This would be fairly normal in Football, but it’s the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse National Championship.

@KendallRogers @TCU_Baseball @UTSABSB And Mercer

@marcisenberg Didn’t realize athletes should be required to get everything they want.

If only there was a legal, durable solution that could come closer to solving this problem 🤔

Sir, could you let us know what your fees are so that athletes know what costs they incur with acquiring your legal services?

@643DPMT @DebbieGries @ryanpmulvaney No one is making them transfer?

@RacketRockRoll @DebbieGries @ryanpmulvaney Not easy to graduate in 4 years when you transfer schools every year because you don’t play or like the coach. That is the bigger problem here that can’t be argued.

I think we all anticipate litigation on this issue once voted on though, let’s be honest here, the NCAA’s delay in today’s vote is indeed with strategic purpose. I’ve heard from several college athletes whose eligibility expired in 2026 - they AND COACHES are inquiring about the legitimacy of the rule assuming it passes. Coaches have stressed to me that they think it’s fundamentally unfair that those college athletes - the 2026ers - and into those college athletes are negatively impacted by this anticipated vote while others have already benefited and future college athletes will also benefit from 5/5 eligibility.

@DebbieGries @643DPMT @ryanpmulvaney Most students finish in four years. If you can’t be done in 4 with all your summer classes, then that’s a you problem.

@643DPMT @RacketRockRoll @ryanpmulvaney Exactly why it is no big deal to do the right thing and make it fair for all. Most will not take the extra year bc they are ready to move on. But some may need to finish school and should get their 5th year like most before them and all after them.

@DebbieGries @ryanpmulvaney Answer my question. Why do athletes who started in 2022 need this leeway but athletes from 2015 don’t?

@RacketRockRoll @ryanpmulvaney Are you serious w that argument?

@DebbieGries @ryanpmulvaney No. Because then the class before them will cry “why didn’t I get that?”. Do athletes from the 2010s have any grievance? Why should they not get it.

@RacketRockRoll @ryanpmulvaney Arguments like yours are so tiresome. They have the ability to move the needle by ONE year and make it fair FOR ALL. EASY PEASY.

@KendallRogers Are you hearing anything about Notre Dame head coach Shawn Stiffler looking to get out on considering scholarships are getting cut from the program?

Our @JoeHealyD1 had a terrific piece earlier this week on what @MizzouBaseball needs to do to be more successful in the current landscape, here: d1baseball.com/columns/healy-…

SOURCES: @MizzouBaseball head coach Kerrick Jackson is expected to return for his fourth season as head coach of the program, I'm told. Jackson's Tigers had a tough 2025 campaign, but showed clear improvement in 2026. I am expecting Missouri to very much ramp up internal support for the program as well. #SEC #Mizzou

@ryanpmulvaney Sir, do you have an update on this?

@ryanpmulvaney What are your fees?

An interesting development as all eyes have been watching the anticipated vote tomorrow. I have heard from several 2026 basketball players who are displeased with the notion that they somehow are excluded from a fifth year of eligibility. I have also heard from coaches who are questioning the legitimacy of the anticipated vote as it relates to 2026ers. The adjournment and rescheduling of the vote for one month, not only has implications on the 2026ers, but coaches too who are putting together rosters.

Athletes whose 4th season of collegiate eligibility was completed by spring 2026: No additional eligibility. Expect legal action.

@WinterSportsLaw Nice to know the NCAA is listening to Mit! Can’t wait for the lawsuits to come in now about how it’s unfair for those players!

The NCAA is attempting to crack down on international pros coming to play college basketball.

@ryanpmulvaney Sorry. I just think a private organization should be able to set its own rules about what its members can do without needing to suck up to union lawyers.

State judges and federal district judges, and federal appellate judges, and SCOTUS. So many point the blame at lawyers for the “current problem” with college athletics. Yet, no one casts blame at the system created by the NCAA that courts - state and federal - across the country found to be in violation of law including federal antitrust laws. Maybe, just maybe, the NCAA and its system were the problems not the ones who challenged the problems.

@ImmaculateView Problem is if all conferences more or less have the same rules, you end up being accused of antitrust violations again.

The news breaking out of Georgia right now is pretty big. I dont have the time right now to fully dive into it but I will later today. The one thing I want to get out right now is that Autonomy is not the same thing as Independence. This isn't the SEC leaving. It is the beginning of the push to Autonomy. I have a very basic example for folks to try and help understand what that means. As I have told some others, think "designated hitter" rule in MLB. The two Leagues are still both part of the same organization, neither of them is Independent from MLB yet they have this difference between them. It is an autonomous decision. Now with the Autonomous Conferences, they are going to approach rule making conference by conference on concepts that Anti-Trust protections would have helped them on. More later but for now, I will once again post this below so that you can see this was already in motion. Its just that what happened in Congress now seems to be pushing this forward.