Good news for Mark Mitchell and Kentucky
NCAA Loses injunction stay in Tennessee
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The NCAA reminds me of my granddaddy when his dentures were in that bowl on the bedside table.
How does this decision, affect the Louisville decision? Two different courts and states. Can someone explain how judicial system works.
The judicial system is the part of government responsible for interpreting and applying the law, resolving disputes, and determining whether laws have been violated.
In the United States, the system is built around courts, judges, lawyers, juries, and a hierarchy of appeals.
The court system has levels
Think of the court system as a pyramid:U.S. Supreme Court
↓
Federal Courts of Appeals
↓
Federal District Courts
↓
State Trial Courts
↓
State Appellate Courts → State Supreme Court
There are actually two parallel court systems: federal courts and state courts.
A judge is responsible for administering the case and applying the law.
Depending on the case, the judge may:
- Interpret statutes
- Determine which evidence can be presented
- Rule on lawyers' motions
- Instruct a jury on the law
- Decide factual issues in a bench trial
- Determine a sentence in a criminal case
- Issue judgments and orders
- Resolve disputes between the parties
For example:
The process might look like:
Complaint → Answer → Discovery → Motions → Settlement or Trial → Judgment → Appeal
The person or organization bringing the lawsuit is generally the plaintiff. The party being sued is the defendant.
The plaintiff typically has to prove its case by a preponderance of the evidence, meaning essentially that its version of events is more likely than not.
It's called judge shopping. It's a loophole in the federal judicial system that needs correcting.
Man I hope this ends today or tomorrow. I want to know if we have Mitchell or Kohler so I can prepare for a big year!
Also 16 Football players sued and one of the guys granted an injunction played in a preseason Seahawks game last week. If he can play, then I say sign Mitchell and dare them to do something. The SEC as well.
What power does the SEC have in this situation? Aberdeen to Florida, half the Ole Miss team to LSU and dozens of others. Seems like if they could stop that kind of transfers then they would have with the Ole Miss-LSU stuff.
The SEC has a hard deadline of May 1st to enter the transfer portal and transfer to an inter-conference SEC school for Men's Basketball. Aberdeen entered the portal and committed to Florida prior to May 1st, for example. Mitchell never entered the portal when it was open. There is no telling whether or not the conference will enforce that rule or not, even if Mitchell wins his TRO case. The SEC could still decline him transferring to an SEC school and being eligible to play this season if they wanted to make an example out of him/this situation. Remains to be seen what ends up happening, but there are a lot of wrinkles with Mitchell playing at UK this coming season that have to be ironed out, and several breaks go UK's way. It's possible, but not without a lot of waiting around for people to make decisions.
Sue the SEC. No reason for him to enter thinking he wouldn’t be able to play. The injunction should override that rule as it does the NCAA’s. Sue if we have to, we would win considering the SEC would face no harm from it, only Mitchell.
SEC cannot say they can't have a player over a rule that was put in place, after portal season was over. They would get sued. Plus it would benefit the SEC Kentucky being the best, more revenue for them.
I really think if the sec/ncaa wanted to make an example out of us, then we need to get big and mean and the sue the shoes off the ncaa.
if UK made a big deal online and really tried their hardest to sue the ncaa/sec than we would win
if UK made a big deal online and really tried their hardest to sue the ncaa/sec than we would win
And that very well may be a route UK decides to take should the SEC disallow Mitchell from transferring to UK. But on the flip side, the SEC could tie the ruling up in court well into or beyond the season if they really wanted to, lose a temporary injunction up front and then win later and go back and sanction UK for playing an ineligible player, all kinds of petty nonsense. I'm not saying they will, but "suing" because you don't get your way verses established rules is not always the correct answer. That's how we got into the mess we are in now. You can't tell me no, I'll just sue you...
Jalen Washington transferred(committed) from Vanderbilt to Tennessee; he entered the portal 7/31/26. I don't recall this coming up with him?
Correct, he would fall under the same SEC rule.
I am not saying the SEC will prevent these players from transferring inside of conference. I'm saying an SEC rule does exist that prevents that player from being eligible to do so should the SEC choose to enforce it. There is no rule against switching schools as a student within the conference. The SEC could allow the transfer, but not allow them to play this season because they transferred after the deadline. That would, in affect, run out their 5 in 5 clock at the end of this coming season as well for the players that fall under this. It is unlikely to happen. But if the SEC wanted to take a hard line on the 2022 class, especially if they keep winning TRO's against the NCAA, they have conference rules in place they can choose to enforce should they want to be petty.
Can’t tell if the world looks down on the Volunteers with pity and that’s why they allow their BS
or the Tennessee fix is in
I'm not a lawyer but AI says that the NCAA can't make rules that violate court orders.
1. Court Injunctions Explicitly Opened a Special Transfer Window
The board post assumes the SEC can enforce its usual deadlines because Washington entered the portal late on July 31, 2026. However, the Tennessee court ruling that granted Jalen Washington his temporary restraining order (TRO) explicitly created a special transfer window specifically for the affected players to enter the portal. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- A conference cannot use its internal bylaws to punish an athlete for utilizing a legal window explicitly created by a judge's court order. Doing so would likely put the SEC in contempt of court.
2. Conference Rules Are Subject to Antitrust Laws, Too
Just like the NCAA, the SEC is a collection of competing businesses (universities).
- If the NCAA's rule to block the Class of 2022 from playing a fifth year violates antitrust law, the SEC enacting a conference rule to achieve the exact same outcome is also an illegal restraint of trade. [1]
- Judges have made it clear that organizations cannot use "bylaws" as a loophole to deny athletes the right to market themselves and play
Also mostly correct, despite AI being complete garbage. The fact is the NCAA "created" a new rule that violated anti-trust, which led to the TRO's passing. The SEC transfer rule existed previously. Enforcing it would not violate the specific TRO anti-trust case verses the NCAA. It would a second, separate, anti-trust lawsuit. But at that point it is semantics. The SEC would argue that the rule existed prior to the NCAA's 5 for 5 and that universities, students, coaches, and agents new about the rule and had ample time enter the transfer portal before the deadline if they intended to seek additional eligibility. They would point to examples of players who did exactly that, like Aberdeen. The players council would have to again prove harm to the players who did not enter early believing their eligibility to be exhausted. Both sides have a point and the ruling could go either way. Again, this is all just hypothetical as there is no indication that the SEC plans to enforce the rule. It just exists, and they may choose to ignore it to avoid more legal issues.
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