file suit in Mississippi<\/a> on Chambliss\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\nLawyer Tom Mars said the complaint will be filed later this week, with an effort to secure both a preliminary and permanent injunction forcing the NCAA to give Chambliss another year. On Friday, the NCAA issued a statement denying a sixth season. The NCAA concluded that insufficient medical documentation had been provided to support the request.<\/p>\n
Given Chambliss\u2019s plan to remain at Ole Miss, his lawyers undoubtedly plan to file suit in Mississippi because of the inherent home-court advantage to having a Mississippi judge, elected by Mississippi residents, decide the case. One of Chambliss\u2019s lawyers, Tom Mars, actually called it a \u201clevel playing field\u201d in Mississippi; it\u2019s anything but. Which is why they\u2019ll be filing suit there.<\/p>\n
Also, if the goal is get a court order requiring the NCAA to give Chambliss an immediate waiver pending the resolution of the lawsuit, why weren\u2019t they ready to file the moment the NCAA declined the request? The longer it takes to get the paperwork together for what seems to be a fairly straightforward factual issue, the harder it is to make the case that a sufficient emergency exists to justify relief ASAFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect the lawsuit to be far more detailed and documented than other eligibility lawsuits that have been filed in the past year,\u201d Mars told Thamel on Sunday. \u201cTherefore, considerable work needs to be done before we\u2019ll be prepared to seek an injunction that would allow Trinidad to play next season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The more detailed the documentation, the harder it will be to persuade a judge that the eventual outcome is sufficiently clear to justify immediate relief. The longer the wait to file, the harder it will be to prove that justice requires a ruling right now.<\/p>\n
Of course, that may not matter. Filing the case in Mississippi could make all the difference, because Mississippi interests will want to see Chambliss get another year.<\/p>\n
Regardless of how it turns out, the case is just another example of the stewards of college football getting the chaos they deserve, after years of hiding behind \u201cNCAA rules\u201d that allowed them to exploit players in violation of federal antitrust laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football has plenty of chaos. It\u2019s about to have a little more. Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-403263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}