Short video by Trenton Luera explaining a recent court ruling (Diego Pavia case) that resulted in an extra year of eligibility for some players and a subsequent CWA interpretation extending similar relief to college seniors who graduated or started in 2020 or later within the five-year window. The speaker warns recruits not to assume JUCO years will definitely count toward extra NCAA eligibility, recommends treating JUCO as a valid development path but not banking on new rules, and highlights that recruiting will become harder and more fluid as roster rules evolve.
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The newest NCAA change is how JUCO eligibility works. And so if you don't know, there was a recent ruling within a court with the case of Diego Pavia. He's a Vanderbilt quarterback, maybe you've heard of him. He is the one that upset Alabama this year. And so he's getting an extra eligibility, extra year of eligibility, despite playing junior college. And so this kind of changes the way that NCAA and college football may work. And so they ended up, this was just for Pavia's case. Then CWA ended up coming out and saying that, you know, any senior, any college senior that graduated in 2020 and on, or started their college football path in 2020 and on within those five years, essentially gets that extra year of eligibility, just like Diego Pavia. Now, that is where we're at currently. And so there is definitely more to come. This will be a continuing thing for a while now. And so I want to touch on this because there's a lot of misinformation out there. I've done a decent amount of due diligence. Definitely not an expert on the situation because I'll kind of give you my take on it as well. But you need to understand that this is going to change a little bit of how recruiting works. And so the biggest thing is just understand the situation. First off, juco eligibility does not, like, still counts against NCAA eligibility, at least up to this point. My recommendation would be to pretend like it's not going to happen. And I'm not saying this in a way that it's not going to happen. But the last thing you want to do is do something rash because you expect this to happen and then it doesn't happen. And so I think juco is a great path. I went juco. I love it. I think it's a great way to develop. You get the two years you can gray shirt, which is a whole nother thing in terms of saving eligibility. You get to keep your red shirt, all this stuff. And as well as you get to play against competition early on instead of like waiting your freshman sophomore year and gives you a second chance of recruiting all this good stuff. And so I'm not saying juco is bad or anything like that. Just the last thing you want to do is bank on this happening, go juco because that. And then this doesn't pass through. You didn't want to go juco in the first place, and you're banking on that extra eligibility. And so that's what I don't want to happen. If juco is the path for you go for it. I think it's a great path. But those are the kind of things that I worry about when I see all this. I see people that are hitting the transfer portal because they think they have four years because they're JUCO years in account. And it's. It's definitely upsetting to me because I just want to speak on that now with that. I mean, again, this is going to change the landscape of recruiting. If I was a betting man, I would bet that there may be some changes to the eligibility stuff that they may pass through that non NCAA institutions don't count towards NCAA eligibility. There are things like degree, progress, all that they may influence some of it, but. And I'm sure the NCAA will fight tooth and nail to make sure that it doesn't happen because it loses some of the amateurism status and all that stuff, which they've already changed a lot of that anyway. But with that being said, you have to pretend like it's not going to happen, but also be ready for if it's going to happen. And so I say a lot of this to really anyone going through the process is that recruiting is going to continue to become harder and harder and harder in terms of that, the way that it's going, it's becoming that the top schools, and especially with roster spots, everything like that, you have to understand that it's a free market. It's becoming even more freer in the sense that there's less limitations on how players can move. And there are also less spots, meaning things are a lot more fluid for the players and harder for the recruiting staffs to decide how they're going to fill up their spots. And so what that ultimately means is that you have to play this game of musical chairs and find your spot. It means you can't be picky about which place you go, whether it's NA juco, D3, D2, D1. And you can't waste chances to get known by more coaches to build relationships. You have to knock on every door. You have to, you know, put your eights in all the baskets. You have to maximize your chances of exposure because there's just so much at play and so many different things going on. And so that. That is really what this. This biggest thing in this juco. I talked to a buddy of mine who is a big recruiting account, I'm not going to say who, but kind of talking back and forth about it, and I was like, what's your thoughts? Like what. What are your thoughts on the future? And he works with all sports. So a little bit of a different mindset. But I agreed with them in the sense that it is going to become tougher to get recruited and just seems to be on that track of like recruiting is only going to get tougher from here on out. And especially for football because I look at it's why I've stayed football focused. Because if there's any sport that is the toughest to get recruited at, it's football. Everybody wants to play. My understanding, at least what I've seen from most people and some of the people I follow now are lawyers because they know more than me on this case. But it is only for seniors in college football. So guys that were expecting to not be able to have any more eligibility if they were on their last year of eligibility, essentially they get the extra year if they were at a non NCAA institution. So it's NA and junior college. But they still have to be from 2020 on essentially in the five years of eligibility, everything like that. And so we'll see how it plays out. Interesting. Nonetheless, let me know if you have any questions. Maybe I missed something as well, but that's pretty much how it all lies at the moment. So hopefully you got something from this. If you like this, you want more stuff like it, be sure to subscribe. See you in the next one. Peace.
