Mr. Cynic

@JTweetsTennis @OhioStateMTEN Feels weird that Stanford isn’t The Ojai.

Ohio State’s streak stays alive! The Buckeyes have made the Big Ten tournament final every year since 2004.

@Dan_Furman Great thread! Much food for thought.

@SteveBe79175373 It’s going to be close. If Charlie Baker is making the decision, sounds like yes.

The NCAA moving toward 5 years of eligibility in 5 years would be one of the most important business changes in college sports. Not because it’s cleaner, but because it changes how schools value, recruit, develop, and pay athletes. Here’s what it impacts:⬇️

@showfortennis @HunterYurachek Such a beautiful facility. What a shame.

Sadly, this is just the beginning with where we are headed in turning college football and basketball into professional sports teams What a shame. A really big bummer. Curious what @HunterYurachek plans to do with these beautiful facilities 🥹

@mlycan12 My daughter was a freshman in ‘22 playing against 5th & 6th year Covid Super Seniors; She didn’t love it, but she figured it out and it made her better. Survive & thrive!

Disagree…5 years of classes is going to result in off the charts portal number and way less opportunities for hischoolers…remember, we’ve had a test run at this called COVID and it created chaos for 4 years. No different except now it’s forever!

@JTweetsTennis NCAA response is full on Henry II: “ Will no one rid me of this turbulent @JTweetsTennis ? 😂

Open questions that still exist: 1. Where will it be hosted? 2. What investment will be made to increase the coverage and broadcast? 3. What changes are made to the qualifying pathway? 4. Do more players continue to skip the fall entirely? 5. Will USTA bring back the USO wc?

@CJMooreHoops Current seniors got squeezed on the the way in having to play against 5th & 6th year Covid Super Seniors and they’ll get squeezed again on the way out if not grandfathered in. Poetic justice to grandfather them in.

But I’m sure if it gets pushed through next month and current seniors aren’t allowed that extra year, we’ll see a bunch of lawsuits. So chaos either way.

I feel like you have to make the first five-in-five year 27-28. Give coaches a year to plan. It’s going to be chaos if current seniors get an extra year.

@KYHSHistory @TaliaGoodmanWBB EXACTLY!!!

@TaliaGoodmanWBB It will get sorted out. Some 5 for 5s will find spots. Some won't and that will be okay too. Every present 4 for 4 has played against 5th and 6th years for their entire career.

If current seniors are grandfathered in to this 5-in-5 thing, it’s going to be an absolute mess logistically.

@UNCisFamily @WinterSportsLaw Only about 63% of D1 scholarship athletes graduate on time (4 years.) And if they’re carrying a serious major it’s almost assuredly lower than that . 5 in 5 is beyond reasonable for those student/ athletes.

@WinterSportsLaw This is so stupid. There is no reason college players should get 5 years of play.

NCAA President Charlie Baker is pushing for the proposal to allow DI athletes five years of eligibility to be voted on as emergency legislation in May, with implementation the next month. Baker is also in support of DI having a legal tampering window like we see in the NFL.

@marcisenberg Bingo! Girls like my daughter came in as 18 year olds who had to compete against 23 year old 5th year Covid super-seniors with 5 years of college training! There is a HUGE difference between an 18 year old girl and a 23 year old woman. Hopefully the NCaagets this right.

5/ Now the harder question: what about the class that just exhausted 4 years of eligibility? They got squeezed by COVID coming in with players granted at least 1 more yr of eligibility. They’ll get squeezed going out. Same players. Second squeeze. 😳

1/ Five years to play 5 NCAA seasons isn’t radical. It’s rational. The NCAA is finally considering what common sense has demanded for years: five years of eligibility, five years to use them. Here’s why it’s overdue—and why this year’s class deserves in 🧵

@ParsaBombs @AuburnWTennis @MaxCohan @mattwallaceAU @JacobHillmanAU @peter_rauterkus @colereporter @BMattAU @AuburnBunker @PabloEscoburner @AUTigerBloggin @GoAuburnTigers Great choice girl! WDE!

Following her official visit three weeks ago, 🇳🇿 Aishi Das (UTR 10.74) has verbally committed to @AuburnWTennis & will join the Tigers for fall of 2026. The 18-yo has an ITF juniors career-high ranking of #103, winning six titles. Also has a WTA singles career-high rank of #1121.

@ByJustinLee From complete rebuild with 3 returning players to SEC FINAL in two years! Pretty remarkable…

FINAL: Auburn 4, Texas A&M 1. Tigers to the finals. It's the first time Auburn's made the SEC Tournament final in program history. Jordan Szabo gets his signature win vs. his former team. Auburn avenges one of its very few regular-season losses, and plays for the title Sunday.

@mlycan12 So you don’t think current graduating seniors will get a 5th year?

The 5 year eligibility is no longer a matter of IF but WHEN. And could be implemented to include those who will be Seniors this fall. For those of you wondering WHY 5 years, this is my personal analysis: the whole NCAA settlement is based on antitrust laws, and the fact that the courts have ruled it’s illegal to prevent student athletes from profiting on their NIL. If you think about it, athletes only have to take 12 credit hours per semester to be eligible. So if you divide that out for normal graduation requirements that equals five years. If an athlete wants to just do the minimum to remain eligible and prefers to stretch out their college experience to five years, who is anyone to tell them they have to graduate in four? That becomes a personal choice that abides by the rules so would it not also be illegal to prevent them from earning money on their name, image and likeness all five years? At least that’s what I suspect the logic (and legal concern by the NCAA) is. Of course, the biggest obstacle here is going to be how they implement it in consideration of 1) roster limits and 2) scholarships. The easiest thing to do would be to exempt any 5th years from said roster limits. However, that would greatly complicate the whole scholarship situation. If you were looking at a fully funded women’s soccer team with 28 scholarships and three seniors wanted to stay for their fifth year, they would either have to stay for no money or the school would have to take a scholarship away from someone else which is not legal. I think these are probably all the issues being debated right now.

@TheMrBowz Thank you for the kind words Mark! 🥲

Love this. DJ was a transformer of Auburn tennis. She made it cool to be an Auburn Tiger and boosted the women’s tennis team so much. It’s led to what is the today….a great group ready for a real postseason run. Thank you DJ!

@ByJustinLee For whatever reason, Graba wasn’t able to capitalize on the whole Sunni Lee phenomenon. Auburn gymnastics should’ve had the top girls on lockdown because of her. Didn’t happen. Rhonda Faehn is available if we’re serious about winning. Just have to ignore the crazies.

Five-star former Auburn gymnastics signee Audrey Snyder has announced her decision to flip to Clemson, presumably released from her national letter of intent after Auburn parted ways with Jeff Graba.

@EricJBlevins @ceesportstweets @heitner The sudden urgency indicates the NCAA wants to resolve this quickly so the class of 2026 won’t have to twist in the wind. Selfishly, it would be poetic justice for girls like my daughter who came in as 18 yr old freshman and had to compete against 23 yr old Covid seniors.

@ceesportstweets Great question and I don’t know the answer, although @heitner pointed out the significant impact it could have on current players

This would significantly change the legal analysis, but it probably won't stop the antitrust eligibility lawsuits. A few thoughts on how and why 🧵

@JimbobsH @SenTuberville Yep.

It would be great if you could do something about Alston money and Trumps executive order to improve opportunities for women sports. Students in partial scholly sports got pulled their Alston academic money to pay football and basketball, after it was already promised. This was opposite of the executive order. The new NCAA deal took money from existing student athletes. Awful. Write a bill to make them pay it back. Yanked up to $24,000.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that we have 25-year-old “students” who graduated 3 years ago still playing college football. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons. After that, you’re done. No more of this “COVID free year of eligibility” crap.

@TennisPublisher Curious to know the winners share for Women’s Dubs?

About 400 fans in the stands watching #MiamiOpen women’s doubles Kenin / Samsonova vs. Dabrowski / Stefani on Butch Buchholz Court with another 200 or so watching from the Doordash Sunset terrace

@Milajoy 👍

If you're in favor of pursuing legal action against E. Jean Carroll for bringing what you believe is a baseless rape claim against President Trump—lacking any witnesses or evidence, and filed 30 years after the alleged event—drop a 👍 in the comments.

@MattHayesCFB Why the snark? Nobody showed up with any serious proposals, so POTUS said, “ Ok, I liked the old way, but’ll I’ll sign an EO, you’ll get your asses sued off, so good luck.” 😂

What did SEC, Big Ten learn from Trump roundtable? It's time to go. Don’t think they won’t do it. usatoday.com/story/sports/n…