Lawyers for QB Trinidad Chambliss sue NCAA in Mississippi court​

Lawyers representing Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss sued the NCAA on Friday, asking a judge in the Chancery Court of Lafayette County, Mississippi, for preliminary and permanent injunctions that would allow him to play one more season for the Rebels.

The NCAA denied Chambliss a waiver for a sixth year of eligibility on Jan. 9, ruling that Ole Miss officials and Chambliss didn't provide adequate medical evidence by a treating physician that showed he was suffering from an "incapacitating injury or illness," which is required for approval of a waiver.

Chambliss claimed he dealt with persistent respiratory issues as a sophomore at Division II Ferris State in 2022, which is why he didn't play that season.

"In Trinidad's case, the NCAA failed in its mission to foster his well-being and development as a student-athlete," the lawsuit says. "The mechanisms (i.e., waiver rules) for granting Trinidad an additional year of eligibility -- so that he has the opportunity to compete in four years of college football -- are available and within the NCAA's control.

"Despite the duty of good faith and fair dealing it owes Trinidad, the NCAA insists on considering the evidence in Trinidad's case in an isolated, rather than comprehensive, manner; interpreting its rules to impose requirements not contained therein; taking unreasonable if not irrational positions; and acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner in its decision-making and ruling."
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Chambliss has already signed to play for the Rebels in 2026. His deal, including incentives, might be worth as much as $6 million, according to sources.

The case differs in that most lawsuits filed by players wanting an additional year of eligibility have been filed in federal courts and allege the NCAA violated federal antitrust laws. (Note: Like Ohio State basketball player Puff Johnson's case).

"We're not challenging the legality of any NCAA rules," Mars told ESPN on Friday. "To the contrary, we're asking that they be applied as written based on the totality of the circumstances, as required by internal NCAA policy, without ignoring certain evidence, misconstruing other evidence, and using arbitrary and tortured interpretations of the language the NCAA used to create the rules."
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:

Yes. Citgo.

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Torg would be proud.

Glad Cavs won so Tyson's heroic day wouldn't be discounted
but not sure when I've seen them with such disgusting play as far as turnovers

They should probably bail on Lonzo Ball already.. too inconsistent... can't count on him.. huge savings for the team

CMic said:

Radioactive Waste Storage Facility?

So, back to status quo.

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Random Weird Suggestion, Friend.

Jaxbuck said:

Please throw this in the MLB or Reds forum.

As it pertains to CFB...this is why I get stuck when I hear smaller teams can out spend a team with a fanbase and franchise value like OSU.

I know Billionaire fanboy and all that but it shouldn't be able to happen if you run it like a pro sports business.

1.TV/media rights
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2) Development projects around the stadium
3) Ticket sales and concessions
4) merchandise

We don't get a disproportionate slice of the BTN money (iirc) but it's a huge slug of money that the billionaire fanboys should have to overcome with money they have to spend out of their own pocket. The ROI of that (tax loss write off aside) should have to start showing up.

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The difference is we can’t spend our money over the $20M cap. We have to spend donations beyond that. So it’s less about franchise value/ media rights/ merch sales/ fan base and more about big dollar donors, particularly billionaires.

Even when you dig into billionaires guys like Phil knight ($35B) could drop $40-50M a year and it’s pocket change. Mark cuban at $6B has more of a limit where $20-30M might be hard to sustain. Matt Campbell at TTech is probably in the 5-10B range. Even if we were to get a guy like LeBron at $1.5B $20M a year would be a lot. Not bad if it were a 1 time donation, but the schools need that money every year and that’s a lot to ask. Particularly when most of their assets likely aren’t liquid.

ORD_Buckeye said:

So, what's the current status?

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Xichigan sucks

Fungo Squiggly said:

Has anyone ever seen Mike Tomlin and Sherrone Moore in the same place?!

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Yes. Citgo.

I finally rewatched a bit of the Miami game because it happened to be on and was past the ugly beginning. I was watching Julian play rattled and noticed something that reminded me of a Clarett interview that I saw leading up to this game. He was talking about his strip/steal from Sean Taylor - Clarett said he knew he could make that play because Taylor was wearing a visor which ruins your peripheral vision. It's not something I would thought about before, but maybe pocket passers shouldn't do visors because peripheral vision is pretty damn important when maneuvering the pocket.


Am I missing the Julian Sayin 2026 thread or are we still using this one? Is this the Sayin Heisman media day table?

Mike80 said:

Penn State won 32-3.

Insane.

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I watched it too, just plain domination. Unless you're a PSU fan or have no team at all, it's going to be boring this year in the team race. Nobody is even close to them.

He heard Chestnut Hill and thought he'd be perfect for their Riding Backs coach.

The federal indictment from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania alleges that Dadig waged harassment campaigns against women through his social media accounts and a podcast, referring to them as “sluts” and “bitches” — he was apparently trying to launch himself as an influencer in the mold of various manosphere personalities — and menaced some of them in person. Authorities say Dadig was targeting women who rejected his sexual advances, sometimes making explicit references to bodily harm.

Dadig has yet to enter a plea in court. His attorney, Michael Moser, says Dadig is a college-educated professional with “a large, stable, supportive, and loving family who are very concerned about his health and well-being.” He notes that prior to the charges now pending against him, Dadig “has never been arrested or been in trouble with the law.”

“As his counsel, I look forward to defending Mr. Dadig and protecting his constitutionally guaranteed rights in this matter,” Moser adds. “I hope that the public and all involved will withhold judgment and vitriol as this case moves forward.” Moser did not respond to requests for comment on other details of Dadig’s activities described in this article.

According to a former friend who spoke with Rolling Stone, as Dadig publicly aired his grievances against women, he also developed an obsession with ChatGPT, the large language model from OpenAI. For months, this individual and others who personally knew Dadig maintained group chats in which they documented what they viewed as his increasingly disturbing online behavior, preserving dozens of posts from his Instagram accounts (at least two have since been removed from the platform).

Rolling Stone has reviewed these materials as well as episodes of Dadig’s podcast, which is still available via Spotify. Across his social channels, Dadig frequently spoke about ChatGPT, and screenshots of his interactions with the bot provide a novel dimension to his case. They appear to expose aspects of his mindset and motives, not to mention the way that AI tools can reinforce our worst instincts at moments when human intervention is desperately needed. As his actions started landing him in serious trouble, Dadig would simply turn to ChatGPT to prove to himself that he was in the right — and the rest of the world was wrong.

“Anyone who reached out to him out of concern got told they were jealous or a hater,” says Gary, the ex-friend of Dadig’s who provided Rolling Stone with content from his deleted social accounts as well as evidence of their past social ties. (The two men are both from Pittsburgh and close in age, but “Gary” is a pseudonym used at the request of this source.) “He seemed to be very sure he was perfect and better than everyone else and no one else could deal with it,” Gary adds.

Fueling that overconfidence, by all appearances, was ChatGPT, which in one exchange cited in the indictment told Dadig that his “haters” were “building a voice in you that can’t be ignored.”

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Georgia tech continues to potentially to be a pain in Georgia's side

He just got way cooler in my book

Fungo Squiggly said:

Has anyone ever seen Mike Tomlin and Sherrone Moore in the same place?!

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Check the footage of all of the Pi Beta Phi rush events across the Midwest over the past two years. If there’s a place they would be together, it would be there and then. Apparently, they have a type and Pi Beta Phi is it.

If you’ve gotta have a type, that’s one hard to argue with.

Has anyone ever seen Mike Tomlin and Sherrone Moore in the same place?!

ScriptOhio said:

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He's still a douchebag; however, now it looks like he will be Bill O'Brien's douchebag.....

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Unless he’s the one who blew the whistle on the cheating. I still (like to) think he may have been the source.

pnuts34 said:

They used NIL deal of $7.5mil to get him to return to school. NIL can’t be used to induce players to go to any school. It’d be no different than OSU saying they’d offer him $7.5mil to come to Columbus. Tampering is tampering. If they let him make his own decision to stay in school then that’s different, but they clearly offered him at a time when he was considering declaring

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That’s a lot of money to be buried in Columbus Ohio

DZ83CK said:

IDK, maybe there is also the chance that the NCAA comes back and says no, you shouldn't be able to play sometime before next season.

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Just sayin': Everyone agrees that under the NCAA's existing rules for a medical hardship waiver he isn't eligible for another year. Puff Johnson is arguing that the current NCAA rules for a medical hardship waiver violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Ohio's Valentine Act, and shouldn't apply. As I understand it he is (basically) claiming that (collectively) his injuries over several seasons have cost him significant NIL money and he should be entitled to another season of eligibility to recoup those (alleged) NIL losses, etc. I just can't see the NCAA caving on this. If the courts eventually rule against the NCAA on this it will open up another round of class action suits against the NCAA by all past players effected, etc.


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Thump said:

Those who stay will be quitters.

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In this case, it's, "quit like a champion today."

Penn State won 32-3.

Insane.

pnuts34 said:

They used NIL deal of $7.5mil to get him to return to school. NIL can’t be used to induce players to go to any school. It’d be no different than OSU saying they’d offer him $7.5mil to come to Columbus. Tampering is tampering. If they let him make his own decision to stay in school then that’s different, but they clearly offered him at a time when he was considering declaring

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It seems different to me. That was his current school talking to him, rather than an outside school tossing numbers at a player before he entered the portal.

MVP! MVP! MVP!