🏀 🏀 2025-26 Bama Basketball News and Updates: Bediako granted TRO until 1/27 (to play for UA.)

[Bammerboy321]

 

[bamafan9201]

So after reading up on this more from a law standpoint and talking to some people

Bediako and his Lawyer will file it in an Alabama Court and get an injunction against the NCAA barring and delaying the case for a year. Which will somehow allow him to be immediately eligible. This could happen in a week or two weeks, I guess it just depends. If he can get the injunction he'll be able to join the team immediately and by the time the NCAA and the case is heard, he'll be done with eligibility anyways.

 

[TerryP]

A longer version from Sweeney:

The implications could be far reaching if Bediako is allowed to return to college basketball. A few of the potential precedents it could set: ​

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• A player being able to leave college basketball and then come back could open the floodgates for a number of other former college stars to be recruited this spring by college teams. Among those: Judah Mintz, a former star at Syracuse, and RJ Luis Jr., last season’s Big East Player of the Year at St. John’s. Schools have had exploratory conversations with both players’ representatives about potential college options for 2025–26.
• If the NCAA’s withdrawal deadline isn’t enforceable, there is little incentive for players not to enter the draft, see where they are selected (if selected at all) and then make a decision on whether to return to college. That could also seriously impact the NBA: As of now, players can only go through the NBA draft process once, and if a player could go undrafted, return to college and then emerge on NBA radars, they might be classified as free agents and be able to bypass the draft altogether. Notably, Sports Illustrated reported earlier in January that NBA commissioner Adam Silver had met with Baker in New York to discuss, among other things, new changes to eligibility standards.
• While technically, Bediako being granted eligibility wouldn’t be bringing a former NBA player back to college, it would cast serious doubt about the NCAA’s ability to enforce its stance that players who’ve played in NBA games can’t return to school. And though those types of situations seem likely to be relatively rare (especially in a world in which players choose to stay in college longer than in the past because of the amount of money they can make there), it’d certainly be a significant development.

There’s also the conversation of what it could mean for Alabama’s team this season. The team’s Achilles heel all season has been its defense, ranking No. 66 nationally per KenPom compared to its No. 2-ranked offense. Bediako could immediately change that. Alabama was the third-best defense nationally in Bediako’s final season at Alabama and was essential in them becoming the nation’s best two-point defense. Adding a player of his caliber could give Alabama’s SEC championship and Final Four hopes a massive boost.​

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The attorney that CB has hired? I've seen his name before. I can't remember where or in what context. I can say my first reaction to seeing his name again was a "TEMU Tom Mars." In simpler terms they are two who leave destruction in their wake, often.

What strikes me as odd here is I think the attorney is missing a big piece of this picture.

Did he make a decision he regrets when leaving UA? I believe we all believed so then, and now: he was just a little late to the game. But, here's my point.

Did the NCAA force him into this situation? As I recall he was denied NIL opportunities by the NCAA: he wasn't a natural born citizen. (Canada, wasn't it?) The NCAA rules, he makes the decision to move to the pro's, partly (or largely) due to his financial situation and the constraints BY the NCAA. I'm fairly confident this rule has since been changed/amended.

My degree in "fictional lawyers" leads me to think the foundation of my arguments against the NCAA are just that, "you created the hardship" by not allowing him to do what other players were doing. And here we go again...

My degrees in the "physiological sciences" tells me the judge(s) that will hear this case look at the NCAA (and its lawyers) like a traffic judge would a guy arguing a speeding ticket who has five DUI's in the last few years. It's not a favorable atmosphere.

My degree in psychopharmacology tells me they are all on drugs.

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[TerryP]

I'm trying to think of some sacred item in the world of amateur college athletics, a tombstone that's been left untipped, a Bible left undesecrated, an altar left unadulterated....it's all gone.

I was going to say something sarcastic about watching women's soccer at a lower division...but then I remembered I might want to wait until the anticipated ruling from SCOTUS in June.

 

[mando]

Well when you starting paying players it now becomes employment and all that comes with that. College sports has become a profession even though NCAA keeps marketing it as amateur sports. With NIL seems like this automatically makes this an option. I am not a fan of it nor of what NIL has become. With that said if Bediako is able to play for Bama they become a much stronger contender for the title.

 

[alabama mike]

He should have stayed in school to begin with at least another year. He was not ready for the NBA, plain and simple. He is just one of many college players that listened to the wrong people about being drafted.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

He should have stayed in school to begin with at least another year. He was not ready for the NBA, plain and simple. He is just one of many college players that listened to the wrong people about being drafted.

So...Mike...not knowing...or really caring ....
Maybe the jump to professional bball...assuming Gleague is professional....
Maybe the need for money....for self..selfless...family...whatever...was determining factor...for jumping.... with nil. The need may ...or will be....met in college..

Not ......that a positive for nil..????? Just saying

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I'm trying to think of some sacred item in the world of amateur college athletics, a tombstone that's been left untipped, a Bible left undesecrated, an altar left unadulterated....it's all gone.

In the next eight to ten years, you'll see, after private equity has their hooks in college football programs, that schools will terminate their football programs to extricate themselves from the clutches of those vermin. That's what it will come to. You'll see significant collusion with gambling syndicates to fix games, such that we've never seen. Real fire and brimstone stuff.

And, you'll see the continued reign of warlords bankrolling their pet teams for one- and two-year runs for championships. I'd hate to be a college football talking head right now, pretending that this feelgood story is on par with Rudy and Hoosiers. Their souls have to be draining. Plus, am I the only one who remembers Indiana basketball fans as Kentucky fans on steroids? I'm already tired of them. This is only slightly better than Miami winning.

...to....hearing players say...as the Miami qb did.... " i haven't gone to class in 2 years ( paraphrasing of course)". Completely validates ur discussion....
Its not college football anymore.....its professional sports...using a university title..university supporters...university facilities....the only connections to such school...all owned by.....$$$$ supporters ...not the public of public universities ...

Sure doesnt apply to all....players or schools... G5 are just minor leagues for P4s...even..

Maybe one day...to reinstitute non professional athletics....college presidents...and a governing body with balls...will develop standards....to use great names...like Alabama...Notre Dame...Texas....etc and say..... "we will do some cost share...to give our student athletes some deserved money...equally and fairly across the board.l....but we will put STUDENT back in student athlete....we will monitor an protect the sacred sports.....they will be students..they will not be toys for corporate America... thats for the professional leagues...". And there maybe a need to develop a B league....
HA...like really....i know...

 

[alabama mike]

So...Mike...not knowing...or really caring ....
Maybe the jump to professional bball...assuming Gleague is professional....
Maybe the need for money....for self..selfless...family...whatever...was determining factor...for jumping.... with nil. The need may ...or will be....met in college..

Not ......that a positive for nil..????? Just saying

I am sure that a lack of resources could be part of the problem. To be honest, I am not sure. All I know is that a couple of seasons ago, many on this board, myself included, thought he was wrong to declare for the draft. He definitely needed another year of college basketball to improve his play.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I am sure that a lack of resources could be part of the problem. To be honest, I am not sure. All I know is that a couple of seasons ago, many on this board, myself included, thought he was wrong to declare for the draft. He definitely needed another year of college basketball to improve his play.

And .... maybe ... nil will keep some at college level.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

 

[TerryP]

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Photo from the Tuscaloosa courtroom this morning…

 

[50+yeartidefan]

So. Whats difference.
Getting paid at school to play or in "professional league" to play ... he just went in portal .... Getting paid is getting paid.

Maybe Michael Jordan can go in Portal and come to bama

 

[TerryP]

In 2023 we had game threads in the spring where Bediako was hurt and we're looking at the bench/others to fill his role. The two names mentioned were Clowney (NBA,) and of all people, Nick Pringle (Bama and UArk play in a little less than a month.)

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Some of these court rulings. They are gonna put "college " level athletics in a new world

Only BODs n college presidents can control it

 

[UAgrad93]

As @TerryP mentioned earlier with Bediako, the NCAA did keep him from earning NIL because he was Canadian, while others, including international guys were allowed. His financial setting with his family very well may have led to him declaring after his sophomore year. NCAA moves the goalposts too much, from case to case and they are responsible for the shit we are seeing today!! I say go get it Angry Chuck!!

 

[TerryP]

Did the NCAA force him into this situation? As I recall he was denied NIL opportunities by the NCAA: he wasn't a natural born citizen. (Canada, wasn't it?) The NCAA rules, he makes the decision to move to the pro's, partly (or largely) due to his financial situation and the constraints BY the NCAA. I'm fairly confident this rule has since been changed/amended.

As @TerryP mentioned earlier with Bediako, the NCAA did keep him from earning NIL because he was Canadian, while others, including international guys were allowed.

I got to thinking about it an hour or so ago after remembering the big fella from Purdue (Eady) had the same thing.

I was wrong about it being an NCAA thing. It is a US law.

I looked up the discussion here about him leaving. Almost to a person there wasn't ill-will. The general concensus was "he needs another year."

The "tone" of the fan base was quite different with him than it was with his former teammate, Pringle.

 

[TerryP]

I was wrong about it being an NCAA thing. It is a US law.

@UAgrad93 To clarify this ...

I haven't looked it up but it's where my memories went earlier. It's directly related to the academic side more than anything; students with F-1 Visa's and their employement restrictions. The eventual root cause is going to be found with SACS, the DOE ... someone like that. The athletes were "unintended consequences" for lack of a better term.

 

[TerryP]