The NCAA is—gasps—on the verge of doing something right.
We’ve deemed this Complaint Month around college sports, and few topics have generated more consistent frustration among coaches and other industry sources than eligibility concerns: who’s actually allowed to play college sports and for how long. It’s where a significant portion of the legal attacks against the NCAA have come from in recent years; players suing to extend their five-year eligibility clock, having seasons at non-Division I schools not count as years of eligibility or just blowing up all limits on who can play college sports altogether.
