I’d buy your jersey.

The case has not been decided yet.
Last year, in several courts, players sought preliminary injunctions. The NCAA, seeing they couldn't enforce the rule evenly, suspended it for a year, making the requests for injunctions moot. Now we are at year 2, plaintiffs seeking another, which I'm guessing they'll get. But will the NCAA extend its suspension of rule so that all JC players get another year, not just the ones who are plaintiffs? Eventually the case will be decided. So far, they are just at the stage of establishing the rules pending a decision on the issue in the case.

Now that college sports is a profession, courts look at the NCAA rules through the lens of do they deprive an individual plaintiff's earnings.
The Pavia lawsuit was filed in November 2024. The lawyer for Pavia and a bunch of other plaintiffs just filed a document arguing that allowing a former NBA first round draft pick to enroll as a freshman indicates some hypocrisy in limiting JC players years while not imposing similar limits on pro years.
But the case is not new, it led to this last year's grant of another year if eligibility for JC players who would otherwise have exhausted their eligibility. Davis had a couple of players in that category.

I think the player, James Ninaji, never played in the NBA. He played professionally in Europe
There are dozens if not scores of former european professionals playing NCAA hoops. The courts have recognized the professional status of college sports, the NCAA doesn't have the right to exclude them, and they know they would lose if they tried.

DJ Williams missed most of two seasons, 2022 and 2024 with injury, The waiver he needed was because of the five year rule. He his first season was 2021. He qualified fro a medical redshirt after playing in three games in 2024 and one in 2022.

Now that there is no difference in the number of scholarship between the two divisions what is the advantage of being FBS? The middle initial and the chance to play in a bowl like the Famous Potato Bowl in place of the FCS playoffs?
The minor bowl games are so unimportant that players and coaches opting out of them is routine and not controversial. Washington State had six players opt out of their bowl game due to the transfer portal.

I guess “reportedly” was the wrong word, i was referring to the speculation.

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned replacements for the secondary, as a top priority. Davis loses both safeties, the nickel, and the corners may not be back. Richardson has eligibility but I’m guessing he is in a one year grad program. Cofield was reported a few weeks back to be planning to enter the portal. Talented freshmen DBs missed most the season with injury. Might be starting five new players in the secondary.

The only receivers the Plough regime recruited, who we've seen play, are Stacy Dobbins, Tom Hennessy, and Scott Nixon. Davis has had a different wide receiver coach each of the last three years. I think that doesn’t help recruiting.

Most didn’t. The fact that Ty Richardson did stuck in my memory because he graduated two years from high achool and was here in time for spring balll during what would normally be his sophomore year.. Quite an accomplishment.
just to be sure I just listened to Plough’s post spring game interview where he mentioned Ty Richardson as a standout from Spring practice.

Transfers can participate grad transfers as well. Ty Richardson did last Spring.

If a game js scheduled then cancelled before anyone participates it counts as no participatiom.
If no one participates in any games then no one participated in 30% of them.

The rule is that the number of games participated in must be less than 30% of the scheduled games. If 30% of the scheduled games is fraction they round up to the next whole number. This is why the issue to me is what is the number of scheduled games? Do playoff games count? They did for the Eastern Washington QB in 2018.. They did in the examples the NCAA published for other sports in 2022. If they count Connors satisfies the rule., If they don't he doesn'f.

The cancelled game is rare in football but more common in sports like baseball. The hardship rule applies to all sports. They weren't capricious and arbitrary when they wrote the rule using the term "scheduled" in place of "completed" which was used previously for the hardship rule, it was intentional. An example the rule change document gave in 2001 was athletes not knowing until the end if the season whether they were going to lose their hardship rights if the games late in the season were rained out. There is a logic to their position, whether we agree or not.

The NCAA didn’t say JC years don’t count, multiple courts issued injunctions for individual players leading the NCAA to suspend counting JC years pending appeal or the NCAA getting anti trust exemption, recognizing the rule was unenforceable. Our judicial system doesn’t consider the big picture. Hence our current situation with NIL, cash payments etc. because the courts in effect decide the NCAA has no right to regulate college sports.

And JC transfer DL. Julius Ray played quite a bit.and had two tackles

I found one PDF that indicated games cancelled do count, but it was from 2001.
The rule is updated in 2001 to use the term scheduled games intentionally rather than the previous word completed games, specifically to include games cancelled due to weather. The appeal because the game didn't complete looks like a losing argument as the rule intends to count those games

On the other hand I found a 2022 powerpoint that gave example that clearly counted NCAA championships to determine denominator for 30% rule..

At the start of 2025 year it looked like both Nava and Simonson would not be back, all starters on defensive line graduating, two DBs transferring to FBS, loss of standout linebacker to graduation, loss of record setting qb, loss of all american running back and loss of three prominent wide receivers. It looked like it was going to be a rebuilding year.

Anyone have any documentation stating that playoff games don't count as scheduled games? Everything I've found indicates they do, there are precedents where they did, and I can't find a report of a change that is said to have occurred last year.

Eli started a whole season in 2023 without anyone noticing. I had to email the athletic department to get his stats and bio corrected. I’m a fan of his.

I believe we’ll be ok on o line
I assume we’ll have three offensive linemen who started quite a bit Rodriguez, Collier, and Porotesano.
Rodriguez might choose not to come back for his fifth year, some don’t. We have reserves who played in many games Montanez, Thurston, Hasson all sophomores or redshirt freshmen.