The system is becoming a joke.

NEWS: A judge in Louisiana has granted a group that includes 16 football player --including several in NFL training camps this summer -- a restraining order to allows them to return to college sports this season, per me and @DanMurphyESPN. pic.twitter.com/fUMzBolvbp

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 19, 2026

What did you expect when many decades ago the experts (like Pete and Dan) started scoffing at and diminishing the term student athlete and influencing the powers to be that these kids deserved to get paid because after all they really are hired professionals.

Reap what you sow! I have no sympathy for the Presidents, ADs, and commissioners who are now begging and pleading for help to fix the problems they created because they listened to all the wrong people. And I sure don't support the federal government getting involved! Just plain stupid, I don't care how educated they are.

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help to fix the problems they created because they listened to all the wrong people.

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Can you explain this?

Paying players came from Courts ruling on antitrust litigation and state legislatures passing laws that forbade their schools from not allowing NIL.

Who were the "right" people that administrators should/could have listened to that would have prevented where we are now?

What I've learned over the past 10 years is nobody has a crystal ball that will tell us how all of this ends. Nobody predicted 10 years ago what we are seeing today. I just hope college football survives in a form that retains the enjoyment and enthusiasm of the past.

Its clearly time to blow up the so called college system and let the NFL run it, the farcical of saying amateurism of college football.

This is shameful

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What I've learned over the past 10 years is nobody has a crystal ball that will tell us how all of this ends. Nobody predicted 10 years ago what we are seeing today. I just hope college football survives in a form that retains the enjoyment and enthusiasm of the past.

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Uh, I think a lot of us knew this would be the progression or at least something similar to it.

I can't believe no one warned us that this would happen.

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help to fix the problems they created because they listened to all the wrong people.

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Can you explain this?

Paying players came from Courts ruling on antitrust litigation and state legislatures passing laws that forbade their schools from not allowing NIL.

Who were the "right" people that administrators should/could have listened to that would have prevented where we are now?

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States did it not courts only. Including Texas, btw.

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help to fix the problems they created because they listened to all the wrong people.

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Paying players came from Courts ruling on antitrust litigation and state legislatures passing laws that forbade their schools from not allowing NIL.

Who were the "right" people that administrators should/could have listened to that would have prevented where we are now?

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States did it not courts only. Including Texas, btw.

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I said that.

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Kidding aside, judges are given WAY too much power.

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judges in general have decided to move way beyond their original intent and too many make decisions in favor of players even to the point of benefitting their home teams with weak TROs

I absolutely hate this ruling. It is pathetic and I hope it gets thrown out on appeal.

It was inevitable with the under-the-table methods that the so-called bluebloods got away with for decades…just natural evolution and it is still evolving

It feels like NFL is starting to put its weight on college system, it really is the lifeblood of the NFL and they see the college system not managing its product or system.

This nonsense needs to stop

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BREAKING: After a Texas judge ruled that the Cleveland Browns are so bad that what they do should not be considered actual football, a TRO has been granted that could clear the way for reigning NFL DPOY and single season sack record holder Myles Garrett to return to Texas A&M.… pic.twitter.com/SpfNA1LRae

— Robert Behrens (@rcb05) August 20, 2026

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So, wait, this is not from the Babylon Bee?

Texas Tech bout to have 16 new players on their roster.

Call me crazy, but I actually look forward to the on-going 'laws of unintended consequences' that keep happening. All the changes and overhauls and loopholes that players keep finding to exploit their eligibility blow my mind. Going to get crazier before it gets better! Looking forward to what happens next!

The only thing left is for a judge to rule that a player does not have to enroll at the school or take classes in order to be on the team. Then, we are truly done with college athletics.

it will take a very strong school to refuse that opportunity, and it won't be us. We've got too much tied up in it, like a gigantic stadium and facilities, to ever break from the madding crowd on this one.

The returning players never signed a contract, right?

Moss did sign a contract and for that reason was denied.

Louisiana has a history of judges ruling against the NCAA. The attorneys knew to take this to Louisiana.

Wow, I'm surprised no one one this thread has been clamoring for JFF to come back yet, lol.

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Several of them had signed NFL contracts

JACK PYBURN WITH A SACK FOR THE TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS..

He will now be playing College Football this season#PMSLive pic.twitter.com/da8DhLkDjm

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 20, 2026

This is so f'ing stupid

All college sports are semi-professional. It doesn't matter, because it's fun to watch. The days of these guys playing for "dear old", (insert - your University) are gone, because they receive $$$, not stipends, books, and tuition. It should be viewed as, purely, entertainment. You'll have more fun, save more money, loose less sleep, and maybe live longer.