Jay Bilas
@JayBilas
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ESPN “Talent.” All opinions expressed here are mine, and should be adopted by you immediately. No tipping.
Joined May 2009
Context matters: out of 550,000 NCAA college athletes, only 12 have obtained injunctions to extend their eligibility (0.00218%). Despite the NCAA’s hand-wringing, 12 players isn’t a crisis that will “ruin college sports.”
Updated numbers on the NCAA’s eligibility legal battles: - 74 cases filed - 34 NCAA injunction wins (does not include 14 voluntarily dismissed) - 12 athlete injunction wins - 14 still pending in lower courts
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Common NIL complaint: these “kids” aren’t ready to handle. @dhurley15: “NIL for the players is awesome. Our players made a lot of money this year and their commitment level was to the max, so the money didn’t make them lazy or hard to coach.” 🤔
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If you believe that judges and lawyers should follow the law, you can’t say that they’ve ruined college sports. If you want to blame someone, blame the members of Congress who passed the Sherman Act and the state legislators who passed laws to give their school an advantage.
@TweetsbyCoachP This is correct. The courts have ruined college sports as much as the NCAA. Both culpable.
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Almost 3x NCAA wins vs. losses in eligibility cases - even if you don’t include the 14 voluntary dismissals. So much for the NCAA’s “the sky is falling” pitch.
Updated numbers on the NCAA’s eligibility legal battles: - 74 cases filed - 34 NCAA injunction wins (does not include 14 voluntarily dismissed) - 12 athlete injunction wins - 14 still pending in lower courts
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New NCAA proposal on eligibility reminds me of that iconic movie line in “Sweet Home Alabama”: What is it about [the NCAA]? You can’t make the right decision 'til you made all the wrong ones."
The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. https://t.co/8QEC4GNvZe
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Five Rules for Managing College Basketball Free Agency…The Golden Rule: Don’t Buy Players You Cannot Afford ARTICLE:
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Masters Picks are IN 🌺 @Garywilliams1Up, @JayBilas, & @KJStewartpga ride with Xander Gil backs Scottie @emmmacarpenter goes Fleetwood @BrendonDeJonge → Rahm @TitansTZ → Bryson And don’t forget… Gil still leads the standings 💰 Who’s your pick to win The Masters?
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The College GameDay crew discuss the current state of college basketball.
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On @ForbesSports UConn’s Alex Karaban On Brink Of NCAA Tournament History: ‘It Would Be So Special For Him’ https://t.co/CobNGJitUE
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As @JayBilas correctly points out, there’s a lot of hypocrisy in college athletics right now. It’s only when athletes begin to get paid that it’s necessary to have a federal law to “save college sports.”
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Attorney @TomMarsLaw to @FOS on the enforceability of Trump's EO: "That sounds like a worthy goal. But an executive order like that would be no more enforceable than Nick Saban scribbling that new rule on a yellow legal pad and then signing his name."
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President Donald Trump promised to issue the executive order while hosting a White House roundtable on the future of college sports in March.
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Rising D1 West Florida intends to hire Tanner Smith as Head Basketball Coach https://t.co/xkZxBGZS4Y
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Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I can confirm that rising D1 West Florida intends to hire Tanner Smith as their new head basketball coach. Smith has been the associate head coach at App State for...
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Navy head coach Jon Perry calls a team meeting to inform Austin Benigni that he has won the 2026 Lou Henson award. But Coach Perry is surprised to learn that he has won the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year. @NavyAthletics @NavyBasketball @PatriotLeague #2026CIAwards AWARD
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Dan Hurley on Final Four: ‘We came here for rings, not watches’. https://t.co/h8XbXyrw8h
@UConnMBB
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BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ & ADAM ZAGORIA INDIANAPOLIS […]
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On @ForbesSports ‘I Don’t Know Who The Doubters Are’: Big Ten Seeking First NCAA Title Since 2000 https://t.co/xsL8UoD4yo
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The board is set for the @valerotxopen in San Antonio. 🇨🇱 Spieth getting some looks MacIntyre showing up twice And a few big names lurking… Who are you riding with this week at @TPCSanAntonio? #ValeroTexasOpen #PGATour
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Luke Murray vows Boston College will ‘look different,’ says Bill Murray will be ‘fixture’ at games https://t.co/m4six8q4jv
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A great piece on the magical run by @EmoryBasketball. So many great stories, unbelievable moments, including a Braylon Mullins-level 3 pointer by my guy Ben Pearce to get Emory to the FF and now a chance at the D3 championship! 🦅
Championship bound: Behind the scenes of Emory’s historic men’s basketball season https://t.co/SXNJdtSnVt via @emoryuniversity
#FlyHigher #d3hoops
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