about not granting eligibility<\/a> to pros whose compensation exceeded \u201cactual and necessary expenses.\u201d<\/p>\nMany pros from lower-level leagues with modest salaries have been cleared. So have some from high-level leagues like Spain\u2019s Liga ACB, although that is likely because savvy agents had their players sign \u201cjunior\u201d contracts knowing they\u2019d eventually want to play in college at some point without running afoul of NCAA compensation guidelines.<\/p>\n
But players from top teams in other leagues remain in limbo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing our due diligence,\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cWe\u2019re sending in contracts, we\u2019re sending in receipts, we\u2019re updating their files daily. At some point, the NCAA, which has not ruled on a lot of guys in this situation, will start ruling on some of these guys and there will be clarity.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, because of the lateness that they added the new legislation, our guys will be on path to being cleared sometime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if the NCAA doesn\u2019t grant eligibility to one or more of SDSU\u2019s Europeans, diving into the market for fifth-year players is a tricky proposition.<\/p>\n
Some of the injunctions from state court judges applying to specific players allow them to enter a revised transfer portal to change schools; the recent injunction from a federal judge in Colorado applies to all athletes but with more restrictions, including, it seems, the ability to return only to their last school.<\/p>\n
In addition, the NCAA has said it intends to vigorously fight the federal case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which has a history of not granting preliminary injunctions that change the status quo as readily as others.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also the possibility that the case could be heard in the next few months and the NCAA could win, immediately ending all eligibility for athletes under temporary injunctive relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could add a fifth-year guy and you get into the season and they overturn it, then what do you do?\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cForfeit games? I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s interesting. In a world where nothing surprises me, nothing will surprise me either way.\u201d<\/p>\n
SDSU technically has another week of summer workouts before a break before the fall semester, but Dutcher said the plan is to end team sessions and just do individual work. There\u2019s only so much you can do with five guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t do team stuff where we go at each other because the way we practice here is only one speed, and that\u2019s game speed,\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got done what I felt we needed to get done. I\u2019ve seen what I\u2019ve needed to see, and now we\u2019ll start resting up for the fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a long way from the end of the season in March. I want to make sure we\u2019re in good health. I don\u2019t want to push them too hard, where we\u2019re running the risk of getting a guy hurt for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poaching lawsuit settled<\/p>\n
The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences announced Tuesday that they had settled their civil lawsuit over exit and poaching fees. Terms were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
A May 19 discovery hearing was called off after the sides informed Judge Susan van Keulen in the U.S. District Court in San Jose that they had reached an agreement in principle to resolve the pending suits.<\/p>\n
The sides had until June 2 to file a formal notice of settlement that would warrant dismissing the case.<\/p>\n
The Pac-12 and Mountain West issued a joint statement Tuesday.\u00a0\u201cWith these matters concluded,\u201d it ended, \u201cthe conferences and institutions can move forward with serving their student-athletes, campuses, fans and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego State is down to five guys at basketball practice this week, and judges across the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,74,76,75,305,127],"class_list":["post-423871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdsu-aztecs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}