An SEC star quarterback is suing the NCAA.
Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia is suing the NCAA over NIL and eligibility rules.
Pavia is attempting to gain an additional season of eligibility. He is seeking a temporary restraining order against the NCAA, which is keeping him from playing next season due to the fact he attended a junior college during the 2020-21 seasons.
The NCAA has rules that count junior college time against a player’s eligibility, and Pavia is trying to make the case that those rules negatively impact how much former junior college players can earn through NIL.
Pavia started his college career at New Mexico Military Institute in 2020 and is now in his last year of eligibility at Vanderbilt.
His lawsuit was shared on X by sports law attorney Mit Winter, with the suit alleging that the NCAA’s rules “restrict the ability of athletes who begin their college football careers in junior college from having the same opportunity to profit from NIL as students who enter an NCAA institution as freshmen.”
Diego Pavia has sued the NCAA.
He alleges NCAA rules that count juco seasons towards NCAA eligibility & that prohibit redshirts from being used after an athlete has played 4 years at an NCAA school violate antitrust law.
He alleges the rules cause athletes to miss out on NIL $. pic.twitter.com/Oq8kXfPgMo
— Mit Winter (@WinterSportsLaw) November 9, 2024
Following his two years in junior college, Pavia spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons playing at New Mexico State.
He went into Vanderbilt’s game against South Carolina on Saturday having completed 62 percent of his passes for 1,677 yards and 15 touchdowns with only three interceptions, while also rushing for 563 yards and four more scores on the ground.
The night before Vanderbilt’s game against South Carolina, Diego Pavia sued the NCAA seeking to have JUCO seasons stop counting against NCAA years of eligibility due to the difficulty of making NIL money at that level: https://t.co/wwci9YFZQA
— Aria Gerson (@aria_gerson) November 9, 2024
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