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Former Tennessee guard Zakai Zeigler has sued the NCAA for a 5th year of eligibility.

This lawsuit is different from the Diego Pavia one that deals with JuCo eligibility. Zeigler claims that players that redshirt and take 5 years to complete their undergraduate degree have a financial advantage in regards to NIL over players who don't redshirt and graduate in 4 years. Zeigler is claiming he is losing out on somewhere between $2-$4 million in NIL because he graduated in 4 years and didn't redshirt.

Definitely something to keep an eye on as this lawsuit being successful could allow players to play 5 years and potentially end redshirting in college sports.

It actually makes some sense. One more situation in a long list of unintended consequences from the NCAA by opening up the NIL without any sort of plan or rules.

@DanR said in Another NCAA Lawsuit:

It actually makes some sense. One more situation in a long list of unintended consequences from the NCAA by opening up the NIL without any sort of plan or rules.

It does and why the NCAA is trying to get Congress to pass some kind of NIL bill so everyone has the same rules to play by instead of state by state.

@Texas-Hawk-10 Anybody care to take bets on who will be compromised the most from any bill passed?

@mayjay us?

@Crimsonorblue22 It is a hyphenated word, begins with s, and ends "---letes"

This case is going to heard by a US District judge on Friday. The NCAA's response is actually pretty good. They basically said that of Zeigler had an NBA future, he would've already gone pro and wouldn't be worried about this. The US DOJ pretty much agrees with the NCAA on telling Zeigler it's time to move on.

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/u-s-department-of-justice-ncaa-to-zakai-zeigler-get-a-job/ ↗